Margo Hayes Makes History
2019 · 13 min · Sport Climbing
In 2017, at nineteen, Margo Hayes became the first woman to climb 5.15a with La Rambla in Siurana. Seven months later she confirmed it was no fluke by sending Biographie at Céüse, the route that defined the grade. This Reel Rock film follows the Biographie campaign.
Hayes is a fascinating subject: a former gymnast with a training discipline bordering on monastic, visualizing every move with her eyes closed at the base of the wall. The film captures both the physical brutality of Céüse's pockets and the calm, almost eerie certainty Hayes brings to a route that had shut down elite climbers for decades.
