Climbing The World’s BEST Boulders | ft. Jorg Verhoeven & Katha Saurwein

A short, 15-minute film from Louder Than Eleven that follows Marmot and LaSportiva athletes Jorg Verhoeven, Katha Saurwein and Jon Glassberg through Rocklands, South Africa. The edit strings together attempts and ascents across a wide spread of the area’s problems, from the low-end Creaking Heights (6c/V4) to high-end testpieces such as Golden Shadow (8b+/V14), El Corazon (8b/V13) and Armed Response (8a+/V12). The soundtrack is an original score by Fizzix Productions and the piece reads like a focused field report rather than a biographical portrait. The film matters as a concise visual catalogue of Rocklands’ variety: power moves on steep cave problems, short technical crimpy lines and everything in between. For climbers who know grades and lines, the sequence of problems — including Moiste Maisie (8b/V13), Black Shadow (8a+/V12) and Ray of Light (8b/V13) — gives a clear sense of the area’s style and the trio’s tactics without extended commentary. It’s useful as a reference for movement, beta and how elite climbers rhythm their attempts on classic Rocklands boulders.