A Good Season

Jimmy Webb in the Rocklands, South Africa, working through some of the area's hardest testpieces during his 2019 season. The tally includes four 8C boulders and multiple first ascents, which is roughly what a career looks like for most people compressed into one trip to one sandstone valley.

Rocklands rewards exactly what Webb is known for: crimping, patience, and a willingness to keep returning to the same block. Mellow gives the sends eighteen minutes without much narration, so the film reads as a season log rather than a story with an arc. That suits the material. If you want to watch one of the most productive American boulderers of his generation operating at full output in the place best suited to him, this is the record.