Curated list
Best Short Climbing Films Under 15 Minutes
14 films · updated 2026-09-04
Most climbing films are short, and the best of them are very short: a single ascent, a single place, no padding. This is the list for a lunch break or the wait before a session. Nothing here runs past fifteen minutes and most are under ten.
Ordered loosely by how much they pack into their runtime.

01 · 2007 · 7 min · Reel Rock
Es Pontàs: The First Ascent
Seven minutes. Sharma, the arch, the dyno, the sea.

02 · 2014 · 6 min · The North Face
El Sendero Luminoso
Six minutes of Honnold alone on a 1,750-foot limestone wall in Mexico.

03 · 2023 · 9 min · Reel Rock
Black Pearl
Sharma back in Mallorca for a new deep water solo, sixteen years after Es Pontàs.


05 · 2018 · 11 min · Reel Rock
World's Hardest Flash - Adam Ondra Climbs 5.15 (9a+) First Try
Ondra reads a 9a+ from the ground and climbs it first try.


07 · 2011 · 11 min · Bertrand Delapierre
Arnaud Petit Climbs Black Bean 8b with Natural Pro in Céüse
Petit climbs an 8b at Céüse on natural gear instead of the bolts.

08 · 2022 · 8 min · Anna Hazelnutt
Anna Hazelnutt climbs the Walk of Life
Anna Hazelnutt on the Walk of Life, the E9 slab at Dyer's Lookout, with Tom Randall.

09 · 2018 · 13 min · Brent Barghahn
100 feet of Kneebars: Slayer 5.13c
Brent Barghahn on Slayer, a 5.13c roof crack that is climbed almost entirely on kneebars.

10 · 2024 · 9 min · Scarpa
Amity Warme climbs Book of Hate 5.13d
Amity Warme on Book of Hate, the 5.13d stemming corner in Yosemite.

11 · 2013 · 10 min · Louder Than Eleven
Paige Claassen vs 'To Bolt or Not to Be' (5.14a)
Paige Claassen on To Bolt or Not to Be, the first 5.14a in America, at Smith Rock.

12 · 2016 · 10 min · Louder Than Eleven
Babsi Zangerl & Jacopo Larcher vs Zodiac
Ten minutes for a free ascent of El Capitan's Zodiac.


14 · 2015 · 11 min · Angie Scarth-Johnson
'Ain't No Sunshine' 28 7c+ , Nowra Australia
A young Angie Scarth-Johnson on a 7c+ at Nowra.
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