Magnus Midtbø

Magnus Midtbø is a Norwegian sport climber, former competition athlete and YouTube video creator whose filming often reflects a practitioner’s eye for movement and technique; his public profile notes that he retired from competition climbing in 2017 and that he hails from Bergen. The videos in this catalog show him working both behind and in front of the camera, treating climbing as craft, training and travel rather than pure spectacle.

The pieces collected here are compact, practical studies. Can't Believe This Exists in New York City records late-night gym sessions at Afterhours Climbing and focuses on how community, partners and problem-setting shape indoor bouldering culture in an urban setting. It’s useful for viewers curious about how sessions are paced, how climbers support projects in a confined space, and how training and social life overlap in city gyms. In I Attempted to Climb Europe’s Most DEADLY Mountain… Solo, Midtbø films a one-day solo alpine push and narrates the route-finding, pacing and decision-making needed when there is no partner — the edit foregrounds on-the-ground judgment rather than dramatized risk. The catalog also includes his 35-minute portrait of unroped movement, Climbing SOLO with Alex Honnold INSANE EXPERIENCE, which pairs conversational moments with sequences of exposed motion and highlights camera choices made when filming a top-level free-soloist.

Across these shorts you’ll see a consistent emphasis on process: how moves are chosen and framed, how rests and transitions are managed, and how a filmer who is also an experienced climber composes footage to teach and explain as much as to entertain.