Squamish

Squamish sits at the north end of Howe Sound on British Columbia’s Sea-to-Sky corridor and is best known among climbers for tall, clean granite walls that host sustained crack and multi-pitch trad lines as well as long big‑wall objectives. Climbers travel here for sustained hand- and finger-crack terrain, steep face climbing above small pro, and the sense of exposure that comes from long pitches high above the fjord.

The site's single film in this catalog, Born From the Climbing Life: Episode 4 — Drifter's Escape, The World's Hardest Trad Climb, zeroes in on one particularly audacious line and shows why a modern trad big-wall project still captures attention. The episode documents Connor Herson’s first ascent in summer 2025, presenting the route’s arithmetic: five pitches that string together V11 boulder moves, a run of small gear around an offset Z4 Camalot, sustained 5.13 crack climbing, and another V11 sequence higher on the wall. Shot and edited by Highpoint Productions as the closing chapter of Black Diamond’s series, the film foregrounds the technical problems — small pro, hard boulder moves in the middle of a long rope length, and the logistical reality of committing attempts over multiple seasons.

Watching this film gives viewers concrete lessons about how a contemporary trad project is constructed: how cruxes can appear at gear‑thin positions, why linking hard bouldering to thin crack climbing increases objective risk, and how a send gains meaning through prior attempts and team support. It’s as much about gear judgment and route-reading on high granite as it is about a single ascent.