Pete Whittaker

One of the hardest crack climbs in the world, Recovery Drink on the Profile Wall in Jøssingfjord, Norway has attracted some of the biggest hitters in the trad game over the years...with few successes.

From thumb-down jams to pinkie-down jams to donut jams, from finger bars to ring locks to tips cracks, there's lots of technique to be learned in just finger-sized cracks (to say nothing of all the other sizes!). Don't worry---Pete Whittaker's got you covered. He breaks it all down as simply as possible.

Whittaker made the third free ascent of The Recovery Drink last week on August 14. It is considered to be one of the hardest crack climbs in the world, speculated to be around 5.14c. Here, he shares how he finally got it done.

In early 2019 Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall visited the roof-crack climbing mecca, Canyonlands, Utah.

Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall have made another hard first ascent in the Utah desert: Black Mamba (5.14b).

In 2018, the Wide Boyz set out on their first winter climb... after a couple of false starts, of course.

Trango Tower? Mt. Thor? Lotus Flower Tower? Puh-lease. Those things aren't even near to the longest climbs in the world. For that you need to go sideways.

Pete Whittaker talks about learning to climb in the Scottish winter—something for which suffering through offwidth climbs prepared him well.

Wide Boyz Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, of the U.K., make the first ascent of a 165-foot 5.14a roof crack in the Utah desert.

Pete Whittaker has repeated the Cobra Crack (5.14) in Squamish, Canada.