🤙 Grab your morning PBR and a stoke croissant — here’s the latest gnar in one quick hit.
But first… a chains whaddup from Nico:
1️⃣ Jimmy Chin’s new flick = straight madness 🧊
📍 Mount Everest, Tibet
Filmmaker / legend Jimmy Chin just dropped the first tease of skier Jim Morrison’s first descent of Everest’s Hornbein Couloir — a 9,000-foot no-fall death chute straight from the top. 💀
Dude sent it!
🎥 Full NatGeo doc drops in 2026, but the trailer looks feral.
🔗 National Geographic: Watch the First-Ever Ski Down Everest’s Hardest Route
2️⃣ Chris Sharma said “nah” and re-bolted his own chopped route 🪓
📍 Montrebei, Aragon, Spain
Some local pulled the bolts off one of Sharma’s OG multi-pitch testpieces… so the man just grabbed his drill, climbed back up and bolted it again — ground up, old-school dirtbag style.
“”Let me climb my route in peace... It’s not good to be so polarized; It’s not constructive for our community.”
The thing starts at 9a+, then stacks 8b+ / 8c+ / 8c / 7c / 8c pitches. Unreal.
🔗 Desnivel (ES) & Gripped (EN): Sharma Re-Bolts His Own Route Like a Legend
📸 @chris_sharma — short clip from the re-bolt session
3️⃣ Rampage carnage 💀 — broken backs and big balls in Utah
📍 Virgin, Utah
This year’s Red Bull Rampage was pure send-or-die energy.
🇪🇸 Adolf Silva tried a double backie, under-rotated and left in a heli with a busted back
🇸🇪 Emil Johansson nearly yeeted off a cliff mid-tailwhip — dislocated hip, still walked it off
🎬 Watch the full recap on YouTube
🎧 Bonus: RECON MTB Podcast w/ Kyle Strait — brutal honesty about the chaos behind Rampage.
4️⃣ Connor Herson goes beast mode on El Cap 🧗♂️
📍 Yosemite, California
Big-wall phenom Connor Herson just freed Triple Direct — turning 30+ aid pitches into a legit free route over 3 savage days.
🧩 First aided in ’69 by Bridwell & Schmitz
⚡ Herson added fresh 5.12–5.13 sequences and linked it all together
⏱ Then, 3 days later, he freed The Nose in 9.5 hours. Straight mutant 🧗♂️
If there was any doubt, Conner just proved he’s the next-gen of big walls!
“It was one of the most fun and rewarding days of climbing I’ve ever experienced,” Herson said.
📸 Instagram: Connor Herson’s ascent
🔗 Gripped: Connor Herson Makes First Free Ascent of Triple Direct on El Capitan
5️⃣ Everest crowded AF — climbers chasing unclimbed monsters
📍 Himalaya Frontier
The world’s highest zoo 🧍♂️🧍♀️🧍♂️ got too crowded, so elite alpinists are bouncing for untouched 7,000m+ peaks — places like Jannu East and Menlungtse with no fixed lines, no Wi-Fi, and no queues.
🔗 The Times: Everest Is Too Crowded — So We’re Tackling the Unconquered Peaks
🧭 The new frontier of high-altitude adventure.
⚡ Bonus News
🧊 Avalanche in Slovenia Kills 3 Croatian Climbers
🧗 2 Climbers Die on Nepal’s Ama Dablam
🌍 Where’s the Stoke this Week? 🌍
Here’s where you should be honing your craft…
🍂 Where to climb: Red River Gorge, Kentucky (USA)
Perfect temps, crisp stone, long days — it’s prime sending season.
🎥 Watch the Red River Ruckus: an old school take on climbing in the Red.
🚵♂️ Where to shred: Moab & Fruita (Utah/Colorado)
Hero dirt season. Desert cooled off. Rains locked in the dust. Trails sticking like Velcro.
🎥 Watch: RideLabs’ multi-cam POV on Moab’s Captain Ahab.
🎿 Where to slay: Deeeeeep Patagonia
Last gasp of Southern Hemi winter = 6+ feet of pow at Cerro Crestón.
🎥 Watch POV backcountry skiing Cerro Crestón near El Chalten, Patagonia
🎬 Or just kick back and slurp this edit from early-season Utah.
💥 Stay Stoked. Stay Wild. See you on the next line.
❤️🔥 Your StokedAF fam 🤘