Climbing in El Capitan

El Capitan appears in the catalog as the archetypal granite big wall: a roughly 3,000‑foot vertical monolith whose length, blank sections and varied features have shaped multiple climbing approaches—aid, ground‑up free attempts, redpoint campaigns, speed pushes and even free‑solo experiments. The films here document that diversity directly, pairing technical sequences with honest field records of how hard, multi‑pitch terrain is managed over days or minutes.

Specific route‑focused films give a practical sense of El Cap’s challenges. Jorg Verhoeven Free Climbs The Nose follows a months‑long campaign to link hard pitches on The Nose; FREE ASCENT of El Capitan’s 2nd Hardest Route captures a compact record of a free ascent of Magic Mushroom; Free Climbing El Corazón on El Cap Over 8 Days (5.13b R) documents working a sustained 5.13b R line over many days. The catalog also includes speed and aid narratives—Setting a New El Cap Speed Record (Shortest Straw) and Climbing an El Cap A4 in Under 14 Hours: Lunar Eclipse—and investigative history in Assault on El Capitan about controversial lines. Together, these films show El Capitan as a place where technical precision, route reading and logistical management meet a range of climbing ethics and styles.