Stone Locals: Rediscovering the Soul of Climbing

As climbing exploded into gyms and the Olympics, Patagonia asked a quieter question: who is keeping the soul of the sport alive? Stone Locals answers with five portraits, including a dirtbag couple living out of a van in Yosemite, a route developer, and community builders for whom climbing is less a sport than a way of organizing a life.

Directed by Mikey Schaefer (of Free Solo's camera team) and Cheyne Lempe, this feature-length documentary is the rare climbing film with almost no grades in it. It is about belonging, stewardship, and what climbers owe the places and people around them. Watch it when you're burned out on crushing and need to remember why you started.