Hannah Morris (2025)

04/10/2025

Not the update I wanted to make.

I’d not spent time in the hospital before this. Never broken a bone or had a surgery, a point of pride I boasted to Nathan in idle chat recently. Fate is more easily tempted than I gave her credit for.

I don’t know I believe in such things, but if I did, l should have known things were going suspiciously well. I’d climbed my first V8+, a grade that doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of it all, but meant so much to me as a milestone. I felt strong and confident. But the balance of things was quietly preparing an invoice.

There’s not much else to say other than I fell whilst bouldering outside. I hit the ground and looked at my leg and I knew l wouldn’t climb again for a long time. I’ll spare the squeamish the finer details, but limbs were at angles they shouldn’t be & what should have been inside my leg wasn’t.

I didn’t know that first night in hospital how scary, lonely and painful the next three weeks would be. How much I’d miss fresh air and going to the toilet by myself. How easy it would be for darker thoughts to breach my efforts at courage. I’ve had 3 surgeries to repair crush injuries to my tibia, fibula and ankle. A rod pushed from my knee to foot. Bolts, plates, staples and bone grafts to repair my leg. The impact also tore my meniscus and my ACL.

For as sad as I feel to have had such a traumatic injury, I am grateful that my accident wasn’t worse. I didn’t land on my head or back & I’ve had incredible support. Special shout out to my surgeons for putting me back together, to Nathan & Anita for dancing with me at each milestone, wheeling me around the hospital and for holding my hand when I needed it.

It’s been really rough: lots of tears and trying to accept it’ll be a long journey back, but it’s given me perspective & lit the fire in my belly to appreciate the small steps forward.

I don’t know what the recovery path looks looks like (the longterm outcomes for this kind of crush injury don’t make for uplifting reading), but I’ll do everything I can to come back to climbing. First though, walking - one reinforced step at a time. 🍗🩼

24/08/2025

My ability (climbing and otherwise!) came into question in an online forum recently. I should know better than to click when I stumble across stuff like that online, but I did. Doesn’t try hard enough. Too nervous. Hasn’t made enough progress. Not real V6’s. Isn’t good enough. She’s teaching people that it’s ok to be mediocre. She doesn’t speak confidently enough in her voiceovers.

For as much as I could just brush off remarks about my climbing or the way I share my work online - it’s not the most important thing, and people are entitled to critique - I respond because to me, conversations like this bolster a culture and a mindset where looking the part and ticking the boxes matters more than trying to step out of your comfort zone in the first place.

Attitudes that treat trying as uncool, prioritise looking strong over getting strong, or value success only at the top grade teach us that vulnerability is a weakness. When climbing is framed as something where you have to never show fear, look a certain way, speak a certain way, never fail, never show weakness, we lose some important parts of climbing.

I might not speak very confidently in my voiceovers, but I do feel I can speak confidently that at its best, climbing is so much more about finding a space to work on yourself than the speed of your progression and value isn’t so narrowly defined.

Rather than teaching people to be mediocre, I hope I’m teaching people to be proud of their own individual effort. I know the climbers I admire most are the ones who embrace climbing in full colour, and accept that learning asks us to be vulnerable. For 99.9% of us, it’s not a competition unless we want it to be. I’d love to unlock a new grade every month and never feel scared of top moves, but if I could never climb past V2 again, I’d keep climbing because to me, climbing is falling a lot, trying hard, learning as I go, building tools to find strength in mind and body and not being embarrassed to admit and explore the things I don’t know.

13/08/2025

That Domimiti Lighty™

The Dolomites are somewhere I’ve wanted to see for a long time and earlier this summer me and we decided to take the scenic route on our road trip and swing by Val Gardena to hike and eat pasta for a week. Totally fell in love with the mountains out there; so many beautiful valleys, alpine meadows, hiking trails and I’m sure lots of climbing that I’d love to go back for. A really memorable trip that deserved a mention on the grid. 😊☺️

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

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