The BEST Climbing in Australia | ft. Jorg Verhoeven and Katha Saurwein

2023 · 9 min · Bouldering, Sport Climbing, Trad, Documentary

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Jorg Verhoeven and Katha Saurwein spend nine minutes sampling climbing across the Grampians (Victoria) and Tasmania. The film covers bouldering, sport climbing and traditional climbing in a travel-sampler format rather than documenting a single project or first ascent. Footage alternates short climbing sequences with travel shots and voiceover, giving a compact sense of line-finding, movement and the logistics of climbing in two very different Australian regions. The value of the piece is practical and editorial: it shows how two experienced climbers approach a short trip—moving between boulder problems, bolted routes and trad lines—and how local terrain and access shape those decisions. There are no detailed route histories or grades called out; the film is most useful as a visual primer for climbers deciding whether to add the Grampians or Tasmania to a trip list and for seeing Jorg and Katha’s on-rock styles.

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