Hannah Morris (2025)

01/07/2025

Owl Flash 5.12 | 7a+

I climbed this back in February as part of a video project with & I realised I never posted about it here.

I’ve never been much of a sport climber, but after a run of injuries last year, I turned to ropes to try to reconnect to climbing. Before opening the account on my first sport climbing project, I would have told you I had a robust understanding that you can’t enjoy the good parts of climbing without the struggle, but I’d have probably been overstating the strength of my mindset 🥲.

I set out on a 60 day climbing challenge with an ambitious grade jump in mind - 6b to 7b and in focussing largely on the grade rather than the process, I set myself up for a good humbling. I realise now that a good humbling was exactly what I needed to appreciate that big goals take patience and work, fear doesn’t just go away with sheer willpower alone, and that routes are not just long boulders.

I chatted a lot in the film I made about compassion and appreciating the parts of climbing that aren’t the conventional successes or polished moments, but I think the biggest lesson I learned on Owl Flash wasn’t a realisation of the value of struggle, but a really simple reminder that in trying to bypass investments in mindset and honing your craft you neglect important parts of the climbing puzzle.

This project wasn’t the biggest climbing achievement of all time, but it taught me so many things about what it means to be a better climber: persistent, open mindeded, balanced, patient in the pursuit of progress.

03/05/2025

After a winter training for sport climbing, and what feels like a long time out of bouldering, I set out to enjoy Fontainebleau free from the expectation of projects or performance goals. This week’s heatwave was an added nudge to embrace the slower place, too. Mixed success on the ‘no expectations’ front - I did get sucked into trying things that are beyond me, right now, and I’ve felt a bit deflated at comparing my climbing this trip to previous trips and seasons where I felt stronger, all round. I’m trying to roll with the theme of building myself back up and enjoy just being here in the forest, in the sunshine, whilst spurring myself on to feel stronger soon!

🪨: Le Solitaire, Franchard Hautes Plaines & Gargantoit, Gorge du Haux

27/02/2025

Am I… a sport climber now?

Home from two weeks in Leonidio, a beautiful climbing playground on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece. Already, I’m missing the pace of life and simple focus that a climbing trip affords. Being in Leonidio for a film project added a new element of pressure that I’ve not really felt in climbing before. I knew my climbing performance wasn’t important in the grand scheme of things, but I felt frustrated with myself for being scared and worried I’d be too scrambled to tell any story for our film at all. After some work, things began to change, but I’ll save that story for the video! 📹

Lead climbing is where it started for me, when my uncle first introduced me to climbing. I found being at height petrifying, and bouldering quickly became the more attractive discipline. Naively, I thought I’d learned most of the lessons climbing has to offer after years in the bouldering wall, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. I feel like I’ve been gifted the chance to fall in love with climbing all over again. Thanks for humbling me Leonidio! Super excited to share the video soon.

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20/02/2025

We’re over half way through our Leonidio trip and I’m still not sure I could say I’ve found my head for sport routes. They’re not just long boulders, I’m learning, and they demand more than just endurance.

I’ve been strapped in for a steep learning curve with the climbing, but each session feels a little more relaxed and enjoyable than the last. I’m trying not to have too many expectations, and remind myself that ‘a good day at the crag’ can take many forms. Climbing aside, Leonidio has totally charmed me. Walking through its narrow streets surrounded by citrus trees, dodging locals on mopeds beneath huge red and grey cliffs has been an adventure.

20/01/2025

💬 about social media & climbing.

I recently had the opportunity to join a panel at on social media and climbing. A few talking points stood out to me that I thought I’d bring…online!

💡 External & intrinsic validation

Sharing my climbing online, I’m interested in the effect of being perceived on what motivates and validates us. For professional athletes, performing at the top brings more complex expectation, pressure & the need to retain sponsors, but even as an amateur climber, my relationship to improvement and success is surely influenced by sharing it online. Questions I don’t know the answer to but are interesting regardless: Do I want to improve because I genuinely care about improvement, or do I want to be SEEN to improve? Are my climbing experiences and goals for me alone?

💡 Is social media changing how we experience climbing?

Social media is undoubtably influencing a new wave of climbing and climbers, and it’s likely changing the way we climb in the most literal sense. Personally, I think this is a positive thing! Content reaches people who might not have otherwise found climbing and offers technical advice for those who might not have been able to access coaching. Climbing content provides a valuable resource for information, inspiration, motivation and social connection, but there’s an argument that the online climbing experience removes us from ‘the real thing’. How many of us have thought “what I’m doing right now will make a good post later”? If our climbing experiences become “content opportunities” does it damage our ability to truly enjoy them, shift where our focus is, how proud we feel, our ability to evaluate risk or even what we choose to climb? Does it matter?

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02/01/2025

Many, many chapters of this year that I don’t think I could capture with the characters available for an Instagram caption.

I had a lot to be thankful for in 2024 and I have many fond memories to look back on. I’m grateful to have worked with brilliant people and thankful to and and for making many of my highlights from this year possible. I was able to see new places and meet new friends, I danced with the ebbs and flows of happiness and uncertainty, journeyed into hopelessness and back again, felt time marching on too quickly and simultaneously waded through some deep mud. I turned 30, worked hard on my business, climbed where I could and picked up more injuries than I’d have liked. Most of all I gave what I had. I’ll remember 2024 for the parts that were light and free, but I’ll hope that the year ahead might grow from the ashes and bring contentedness (and strong fingers, more tennis and time outside!)

Happy New Year! 🤍

05/12/2024

Some snappies from the last couple of monthies. It’s been the best of times, the not so best of times, and it’s flown by in a bit of a blur.

I took an inadvertent step back from social media in November and that turned into more intentional time away as the month went on. In truth, plates I’ve been trying to keep spinning throughout the year were wobbling and though non of this really requires an update, being online is my job and I’m generally interested in how hyper-connectivity impacts us as individuals and society.

The impact of social media has been the guiding theme of my month - thanks to for inviting me to chat on stage about social media’s effect on climbing alongside some inspiring voices in the industry. Preparing for the panel gave me a really nice opportunity to think about my relationship to screen time, to check in on what a healthy balance means to me and to celebrate the value I do see in social media for connecting me to climbing and other climbers.

November highlights:

1) Speaking alongside and - hosted by

2) The Creator Cup went live - definitely our biggest project this year and maybe the biggest video we’ve attempted in terms of moving parts. Thanks to and .brixton for helping us to make it happen and to and for being the best in pulling it together.

3) I loved attending the Women’s Climbing event at the beginning of the month. It’s always lovely to climb with a group of women and getting to spend the day watching some strong ladies crush was a lot of fun! making finals and the post comp sauna was the 🍒 on top. Thanks for having me BlocFit!

4) long awaited catch ups with friends, some filming days up in Sheffield and some unplugged time in the countryside.

20/10/2024

This time last year in Ticino. Brione might be one of the most beautiful places I’ve been to climb. Snow on the mountains, crystal clear, brilliant blue water running through the valley, crisp autumnal days on rock and pasta everyyyyy evening. I often slip into a ‘what’s next?’ mentality - with creative pursuits or my climbing goals or work - but looking back, I boggle at how fast a year flies by. I can hardly believe how recent these photos feel, and they remind me to really make the effort to appreciate life as it happens more.

🩰 📍Ticino, Switzerland

15/10/2024

Two weeks in Albarracin, getting used to rock and rolling with some textbook lessons from ‘climbing: the-unyielding-mentor’.

Aside from the wrist-tweak I picked up on the final day, I’m really pleased with my climbing and I’m happy to see progress in my strength and mental approach to bouldering outside. I put time into projecting my hardest boulder yet, and mostly (!) enjoyed the process of climbing at my limit.

Climbing aside, my trip coincided with a tricky time for me. I’ve not felt so fresh for the last few weeks and persistently feeling not-myself led to some wobbly days on rock. 🤒😵‍💫

Struggling under boulders in the forest reminded me again that the climbing journey and the mental health journey aren’t so dissimilar: both are rarely linear, both require us to put time and trust into a process that feels unsure, and both demand work and maintenance.

For an activity as purposeless as it is, really, climbing always has something to teach me beyond footwork and hip positioning, and for that, I think it’s super cool. Thanks Albarracin for the masterclass, and to my pals for making it a nice time regardless!

A big moment for the Shark 3.0, which carried me through the entire two weeks, and the toe hook crux on my project! 😘

12/10/2024

Assorted 2025 snaps 🥐🎾🚐

06/10/2024

Hiked up the hill to Terra Media, climbed crimpy face boulders, drank chocolate milk as celebration, devised ‘pinecone game’ with to whittle away the hours while we couldn’t find the energy to hike back down the big hill. Saw an ibex. Hiked back down via a boulder I’d earmarked as a potential project but realised that the holds are total rubbish. Came home. Logged climbs while mulling over 27 crags comments and my fragile ego. 🫡

Nisu 7A ✔️
Sangre Con Victoria 6C+ (third go, not with pneumonia) ✔️

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