Each rock generation brings new vision and new focus to ultimate climbing challenges. In Vertical World, Katie Brown, herself one of the world’s greatest climbers, introduces nine of America’s best and brightest masters of rock climbing. Through engaging interviews and stunning action photographs taken by top climbing photographers, the most gifted climbers of this generation bring style, grace, skill, and strength to the hardest and most beautiful rock climbs on planet Earth. They talk about their successes and failures, their training secrets, their favorite crags, their climbing partners, their wildest dreams, and their craziest adventures. These are today’s cutting-edge climbers touching the vertical dream and climbing without limits.
Dave Graham - climbed more 5.14 routes than anyone else in the world
Chris Sharma - the first climber in the world to send 5.15a
Beth Rodden - the world’s best all-around female rock climber
Dean Potter - America’s leading soloist, climbed Yosemite’s Half Dome and El Capitan in a day
Jason Kehl - America’s premier high-ball bouldering ace
Josh Wharton - climbed the world’s longest route up Great Trango Tower in Pakistan
Steph Davis - the second woman to free climb El Capitan in a day
Lisa Rands - one of the world’s best woman boulderers
Tommy Caldwell - the world’s best all-around male rock climber
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