Interview: Hazel Findlay on “Magic Line” (5.14c R)
"The whole route demands that you be a good climber. You can't just rehearse the moves and put your hands and feet in the right place; you have to climb well the whole way up."
"The whole route demands that you be a good climber. You can't just rehearse the moves and put your hands and feet in the right place; you have to climb well the whole way up."
She is the third person to send the famous route, and only the second person to redpoint it by placing the gear on lead.
Explore the past, present and future with Hazel Findlay, and venture into the slate quarries of Llanberis to see her process of training the mind.
This past spring, BD Athlete Hazel Findlay faced off with the immaculate 230-foot splitter, Concepción (5.13), located in the southwest desert near Moab, Utah.
For years, Findlay had heard about the perfect granite cracks in Bohuslän, Sweden, but only recently did she make the trip.
A select (not exhaustive!) timeline of many of the major moments in the history of free climbing on the Big Stone.
Hazel Findlay established the trad testpiece in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, during the summer of 2017.
Wideboy and and Lattice Training founder Tom Randall talks with Hazel Findlay about some of the hardest---but most important---mental tricks to focus on when attacking your project.
Trad extraordinaire Hazel Findlay makes the first ascent of a blank Squamish corner high on the Chief.
Findlay has now climbed four free routes on El Capitan, Yosemite.