Boone Speed

Boone Speed is an American photographer and rock climber from Provo whose work sits at the intersection of creative imagery and field-level climbing. His background in graphic design and photography informs a visual sensibility that has accompanied his involvement in the sport, both behind the camera and on the rock.

In this collection Boone appears in the bouldering film Best Of The West, which follows Chris Sharma’s return to Hueco Tanks in 2005 and gathers a cohort of mid-2000s boulderers. The film captures session-style climbing with a tight crew — Boone Speed among them — and frames Hueco’s distinctive problems through unpretentious filming: brief sequences of hard moves, candid camaraderie, and focused attempts rather than extended dramatization. That approach reflects both the era’s filming norms and Boone’s dual identity as participant and visual documentarian.

Watching Boone in this context will give viewers a sense of movement quality on classic Hueco problems, the social dynamic of a returning elite climber with peers, and the practical rhythms of a bouldering trip: warm-ups, attempts, and the give-and-take of spotters and friends. For anyone interested in how climbers of the 2000s balanced performance and scene-building, the footage is a compact, concrete record of that moment.