Tom Randall

Tom Randall is a British rock climber known for his crack‑specialist work with Pete Whittaker as the Wide Boyz and for translating that practice into coaching and training resources. Randall and Whittaker’s reputation for offwidth mastery and for the first free ascent of Century Crack is part of the background to the films available here, which document both the training and the attempt itself.

Wide Boyz is the full feature that follows Randall and Whittaker as they construct a replica horizontal offwidth in a Sheffield cellar, train for two years, then travel to attempt Century Crack (listed as 5.14b) in Utah’s White Rim. The film blends training montage, humor and blunt depictions of the physical cost of offwidth climbing; it explains why specialized preparation matters and makes clear the unconventional techniques—body‑stacking, jams and sustained, awkward movement—that offwidth demands.

The short excerpt Anna Hazelnutt climbs the Walk of Life (an Alastair Lee piece from the Queen Lines collection) shows Randall as a co‑star on a sea‑cliff slab sequence. That clip contrasts with Wide Boyz by highlighting technical precise movement on blank rock rather than the brutality of roof cracks. Together the films teach both the idiosyncratic methods of crack climbers and the broader filmic choices used to present very different styles of trad climbing.