The Classics: Becky-Chouinard in the Bugaboos
Here’s a short video piece that recently came out that I shot for Outdoor Research and was produced and edited by Duct Tape Then Beer. Enjoy.
#6 Innominata
#6 out of 7 and only one more left on my goal of climbing new routes on all of the major summits of the Fitzroy skyline! After an amazing streak of good weather things returned to a slightly more regular (not that there is regular pattern) for the later part of January and into early [...]
The Man Who Can Fly with Dean Potter on Nat Geo TV
This Sunday evening at 8pm, The Man Who Can Fly is airing on National Geographic TV. I spent a good part of my summer working on this project as a camera operator, photographer, rigger and general handy man. This was one of the larger productions I’ve worked on to date and was an incredible experience [...]
National Geographic Adventure Photo of the Week: Dean Potter Highlining
Finally after 6 months of waiting I can share this image of Dean Potter walking a line up on Cathedral Peak in Yosemite. Hands down this is one of the craziest images I’ve ever captured. A lot of the credit really should goto Dean though as he was the one who dreamed up the shot [...]
Astro Choss on Exupery
Climbing is complicated. It comes in many forms. It evokes many emotions and tries us in many ways. More than any other week of my almost 20 years of climbing have I felt that this week. The highs have brought tears just as much as the lows. I used determination to overcome fear and just [...]
Double Cover Month
Pretty stoked to have managed to get not only one but two covers this month! Both images have some pretty classic stories behind them as well. The shot of Cerro Torre, in Patagonia was taken last year while hiking out after climbing St. Exupery with Kate. We briefly stopped on the hike to have a [...]
Patagonia at Night
While descending from Poincenot a couple weeks ago my finger started to turn red and get a tad bit painful. In my state of exhaustion I didn’t really pay much attention as my body was prioritizing my needs over my pain. Once arriving back at camp, getting some rest and eating some food it became [...]
Off The Couch and onto Poincenot
Nearly three months ago while descending El Cap I took one false step, heard a pop, and fell to the ground clutching my ankle. I instantly knew I wasn’t going to be “walking it off.” Fast forward two months and a change of location to Smith Rocks, where Kate and I posted up for my [...]
Rockclimbing
Kicks A$$. Today was my first day climbing in 5 weeks. Definitely the longest duration I’ve gone without climbing in a really long time! (hard to recall exactly but probably 5 years). 5 weeks ago I sprained my ankle in a pretty serious way coming off of El Cap. I knew when I hit the [...]
Alex Honnold and 60 Minutes
Earlier this year I got hired by CBS to work on a short profile piece about my good friend Alex Honnold. Along side a small crew from Sender Films we shot Alex free soloing the Chouinard-Herbert (IV 5.11) route on the north face of the Sentinel. In normal Alex style he made it look like [...]
The Limestone Walls of Paklenica
I just got back from an amazing month long trip to Slovenia and Croatia. Kate and I spent the first couple weeks of the trip getting familiar with the steep limestone of Misja Pec in southern Slovenia and then headed to Paklineca in Croatia for the second half of the trip. Brittany Griffith joined us [...]
Cover: National Geographic Magazine
It’s obviously not the US version of National Geographic Magazine but hey I’ll still take it! Most of the readers of my blog already know last year I worked as Jimmy Chin’s assistant for a feature article on climbing in Yosemite for National Geograhic magazine. Well the article is out in print now [...]
Patagonia 2010/11 season gallery
Finally got a chance to upload everything from last season down in Patagonia. Got to do a lot climbing this last season with some really great partners. I could probably could of used my camera a little bit more but sometimes just climbing is hard enough. Looking at all the photos is already getting me [...]
National Geographic Extreme Photo of the Week
After patiently waiting since last November I can share some of the work I did along side Jimmy Chin for National Geographic. More pics and videos to come shortly. Until then here is National Geographic’s Extreme photo of the week. This photo still give’s me the chills. Almost forgot to mention this is Dean Potter [...]
The Love Letter
Last September between assisting with Jimmy Chin, for a Nat Geo project, I was asked to shoot a multi-week backcountry project for a great friend Fitz Cahall. He’s best know for The Dirtbag Diaries, but he has also produced a web TV series The Season. Fitz and Becca’s dream trip finally came to realization, a [...]
The Washington Route, A new route on Fitzroy
It’s been a week now since Kate and I were standing on top of the Fitz and I can finally say we’ve elevated our body temperature back to normal. Though it took flying to the big island of Hawaii to do it. Nearly two weeks ago now the weather forecast started to show a possible [...]
Chiaro de Luna, St. Exupery
After a few weeks of poor weather and lots of waiting a decent weather forecast appeared on the charts. Kate showed up in early January and hadn’t yet climbed anything, so needless to say her motivation was high. Though the forecast was for cold weather we still had hoped to go do some rock climbing [...]
The west ridge of Aguja Innominata,
A few days after our successful climb of Mermoz the weather got good again. This time we were looking for something a bit less alpine and a bit more FUN. This is my 5th season here and unbelievably I had never made it back into the Torre valley. So without to much discussion that where we [...]
Jardines Japoneses, a new route on Mermoz
After two tries this season and an attempt two years ago, we completed a new route on the East face of Mermoz. We left camp at 1:30 or so on the morning of the 28th making our way to the base of Mermoz just as it was getting light. I took the first block leading [...]
Another season and more suffering on the way
I recently arrived in Patagonia for another season of climbing and suffering. This is my 5th time coming here to climb and sadly I’ve had shit luck with the weather down here every time. So far this year has been no different. I’m here climbing with Jens Holsten, a good friend and great climber from [...]
Devils Thumb Gallery
Well I’ve officially procrastinated so much on writing a full report from my trip to the Devils Thumb with Colin Haley that I’m giving up on writing it. So instead here is a link to Colin’s trip report and a gallery of my images. (Maybe I’ll find some free time in the next few [...]
Off to the Devils Thumb!
Colin Haley and I boarded a plane much to early this morning and set off on hopefully what will be a great trip to the rarely visited Stikine Icecap in Southeastern Alaska. Our main objective will be a climb on the Devils Thumb, which is most famous for it’s unclimbed Northwest face. Thankfully we [...]
Freerider: Kate and Madaleine
THE GIRLS CRUSHED ANOTHER HUGE ROCK!!! On June 21st Kate and Madaleine started up El cap with their eyes set on making a free ascent of the mega-classic Freerider. This is no easy task. El cap has probably been free climbed by less that 100 people and only by 3 American females (Lynn Hill, Beth [...]
Cover!
I was surprised to say the least when I heard from the editors at Patagonia that they had selected a photo of mine for the cover. I’d almost gotten the cover a couple other times but at the final creative meetings it had always been changed, so I kinda figured the same might happen with [...]
