Hannah Morris

21/07/2024

Our video from The North Face Climb Festival is live on the channel today, and it might be one of my favourites yet. 📹

Experiencing something completely new again in climbing reminded me of how much I really love this sport, and how much climbing influences my outlook on what makes an adventurous life. Most days, adventure isn’t hanging over the Thames on a free solo wall, and most others it doesn’t have to be anything wildly extraordinary, but there are opportunities to meet climbing with curiosity all the time. Hope you like the video! 🙌

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24/06/2024

Carried my point and shoot over 2 continents for to have his finger over the shutter for half of the roll. 🎞️

Fun memories from our trip to the US to visit & some from recent UK climbing days by the coast.

05/06/2024

The Shark heel strikes again. 🦈

The ‘toe to heel, drop into crimp’ sequence on Purple Haze felt VERY unlikely when I first tried it - but some improved conditions and some ‘girls session’ psyche unlocked it, and a new crux: the hero move rollover. Happy to have strung the two together on my last go best go and just in time to see tick ‘All Along the Watchtower’.



Purple Haze V6 | 7A ✅
Purple Haze RH V5 | 6C ✅

03/06/2024

Golden hour at the boulders.📍🪨

Taking the opportunity to explore the Cornish coastline en route to our event with next week. I’d seen photos of the boulders at Tintagel for years and thought they looked ace - yesterday’s evening’s sunset session by the sea with and was a real treat and the perfect chance to find my feet on rock again.

Excited to climb and chat all things foot strength with the Vivobarefoot gang - see you Tuesday 💃

14/05/2024

A day in Joe’s Valley, a scenic sandstone playground that claimed not one but two of my fingers during our time visiting 🙃 but gave back enough in good times and fun climbs for me to look past that (minor tweaks, nothing too serious!)

I’ve really enjoyed getting to climb outdoors more than usual these last few weeks - I really will miss it here. 🌞

11/05/2024

Rounding off an incredible trip across the western USA with 🪨🇺🇸🌲

Feeling very lucky to have spent two weeks road-tripping across California, Nevada and Utah.

Waking up in a new place, with no particular itinerary aside from finding rocks has always felt to me one of the very best parts of climbing. As we made our way across the desert to Salt Lake City, the days stretched out ahead of us -hours to fill and nowhere to be. The opportunity to connect with good people and climb in places I’ve heard so much about is something I’m very grateful for.

Over the course of this trip, I’ve been thinking on what it means to me to pursue calm through climbing. That sense of ‘stillness’ is something I’ve been able to express in a video project over the last couple of weeks & I’m excited to see and share what .lee does with the footage.

Conscious too, more than ever, of what a privilege it is to spend time doing this and how lucky we are if we live free from violence when others are experiencing unthinkable terror. 🕊️

04/05/2024

Got some film scans back from our time across Europe in the summer. From converting the van to architectural cragging with in Bern, to exploring the alpine bouldering of Chamonix and lake dipping across Germany. Hoping this summer looks a lot like the last.

02/05/2024

Potato Chip Centre. Possibly my first of the grade, possibly not. 🤷‍♀️

This gets V7-V9 in the guidebook and V8, V7 or V6/7 depending on where you look online. Having never climbed V8, it’s difficult to say with much confidence - all I know is it felt like the hardest thing I’ve personally tried in a while.

Moreso, a special one for me because I’d convinced myself it was too difficult long before a supportive crew convinced me to keep going with it - I probably would have walked away from it had not given me the belief and tactics and .lee & not cheered me on, so thank you!

Whilst I do think qualifying difficulty with a grade is useful and an important part of a healthy climbing experience, the ambiguity around this one reminded me that the non-definitive nature of climbing grades is super cool. Having spent a while falling off a V3/4 earlier on in the session, I left Red Rock thinking my hardest is not what I think it is. Fail, succeed, challenge yourself, enjoy being around good people, have fun.

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🩰: (turns out I CAN heel hook with a little something something from the Shark 3.0)
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01/05/2024

A particularly nice climb in a really beautiful place🌲

I had a lot of fun heading into the mountains to climb with this week. I’m not typically drawn to highballs but having heard so much about some of the area classics and seeing them up close, I wanted to try the taller granite walls of Tramway. Climbing up high really is a different experience than I’m familiar or confident with, but it could well be that the occasional foray into ‘don’t look down’ territory is soul-food all the same.

White Flight 🪨

29/04/2024

👋 Los Angeles.

Could have stayed for many weeks longer for the food, the great people and the climbing fun - thanks for making our trip so fun.

We have a few days in the mountains before heading to Utah and I’m hyped for my first Californian bouldering experience.

16/04/2024

In the time I’ve been climbing, I’ve come to believe that willingness to be vulnerable is a strength. Climbing and sharing my climbing journey has given me tools to build self-belief & confidence - hopefully I’ve been able to pass that forward online.

The last few months, I’ve been going through the motions of stress & anxiety with a brave face on, with an unbearable feeling that everything is over or something awful must be just around the corner.

The degree to which anxiety affects me depends seemingly on which way the wind blows, but lately I’ve been IN it & dealing with the alienation that comes with feeling in constant panic. I have a relentless bully sat on my shoulder and the most opaque fog in my mind as I try to do my job, catch up with friends and enjoy climbing with my community. I’ve smiled my way through filming days & work meetings in a panic, struggled to make eye contact with people I’ve known my whole life & asked “what’s wrong with me?” more times than I care to admit. You might not ever know it from watching videos / talking to me (or you might 😅), which goes to show a) how effective our facades can be and b) how futile it is to compare yourself to your perception of others, especially through a screen.

I started my channel as a way for me to communicate in a way that I didn’t always feel confident to in my ‘real life’ and I’ve been learning over the years running it that it is possible, and necessary to communicate the highlights and the challenges concurrently. It might not feel like it now, but I do trust that it is possible to re-tune your mind to one that backs you wholeheartedly and that finds stillness more easily. Of course; that confidence falters sometimes. We get up, and try again in the unwavering optimism that the connection we eventually find makes enduring the bad worth it, by far.

Truly, everyone finds it tough at times. You’re not on your own. There are people around you that care & that you can & should talk to if you’re struggling. 💌

23/03/2024

I really enjoyed taking a sneak peek at the brand new The Climbing Hangar Edinburgh this week. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

As participation in climbing is accelerating, the demand for gyms that cater to every kind of climber is growing. It’s clear to see that at the center of the TCH mission is a genuine passion for facilitating great climbing experiences, whether you’ve been climbing for three weeks or three decades.

Great space, boulders, vibe!

09/03/2024

IWD! 💌

One of the most wonderful things about climbing is that everyone can be a climber.

Being a woman in the climbing media space, there’s many gaps and biases I could choose to focus on - there’s still work to be done to ensure that all climbers feel welcome and represented in climbing spaces. My overarching goal with Hannah Morris Bouldering is to have a positive voice for inclusion and continue to subvert attitudes I don’t believe to have a place in climbing.

I hope my platform is a space that empowers women with self-belief and the confidence to enjoy their own climbing journey on their terms, and I’m grateful for the women who’ve inspired the same confidence in me.

So on IWD I’d like to celebrate the brilliant women who’ve inspired me in climbing and outside of climbing- the coaches, athletes, friends, mentors and colleagues that’ve encouraged my love of climbing and its community. I’d also like to think of women for who spending an afternoon climbing would be an unimaginable luxury amidst relentless violence and horror.

15/01/2024

Psyche is high after a refreshing (if a little cold) week in the forest. I’m leaving with a couple of ticks I’m really pleased with and a renewed motivation to get out on rock more this year.

I wasn’t sure how strong I’d feel climbing this week but I was really happy to access some try-hard and send two boulders that have been on the list for a while.

Tim Tim is one I first looked at on our very first trip to Fontainebleau years ago. I remember watching friends climb it and thinking ‘never in a million years’, but some better beta unlocked it this time around. It was also really nice to see fight his way up his first 7C in the forest.

Tim Tim V6 / 7A ✅

31/12/2023

Very thankful. Travelled to some beautiful places and spent time with people who inspire me. Enjoyed my work, climbing and time spent with old and new friends. Looking forward to 2024 💌

Last 📸: .vertical for Let it Baern

26/12/2023

100k. 🎈

When I first started making videos about climbing, I didn’t ever think that one day I’d be able to call it my job, or that I’d be celebrating 100,000 subscribers a few years later with a thimble of wine (best believe I’ll be celebrating with a little more fizz once I’m fighting fit). I have so much to thank climbing for, but so much more to thank everyone who watches the channel and the partners who’ve worked with me and Nathan over the last few years.

Making videos has brought some really special experiences into my life. Nathan took these photos of me down in San Diego this summer, before the best tacos of our life - I love how happy I look in them and I love what I feel when I remember our US trip. I couldn’t be more excited for 2024.

03/12/2023

I’ve really enjoyed pulling together some mini Christmas creations to start off December with some festive cheer.

Our OG .sends figures make cute little wooden tree decorations and rustled up some climbing greetings cards for the HMB shop.🎄

06/11/2023

Happy to be out in 🇨🇭for a few more days in Ticino before we head back home. Brione is beautiful beyond words and the weather has been very kind to us. Though I only managed a single boulder and felt fairly rusty on rock, I had fun remembering how to use the stills camera and taking in the scenery.

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05/11/2023

Fresh out of a weekend hanging out in Ticino.

This weekend I had the pleasure of spending some time in the beautiful Ticino valley and the opportunity to climb a multi-pitch sport route up the Verzasca Dam. As you wind up the Valle Verzasca, an imposing concrete face appears through the trees. It’s truly breathtaking - even more so when 200 meters of climbing comes into focus.

Having never climbed multi-pitch, and having rarely climbed routes, the prospect of climbing 3 pitches on this mammoth wall was fairly scary. Exposure isn’t something I have a whole lot of experience with at the bouldering gym and I’ve not felt so out of my comfort zone in a long while.

Reflections on the experience to come as a film project, but for now: a new climbing experience always brings me back to what climbing is to me and why I do it. Climbing is a big part of my self expression and creativity - what a joy to be able to scare myself silly, learn where my reserves lie and share psyche with passionate people this weekend.

Thanks to for the invite and to for supporting the adventure. The Red Bull Dual Ascent is certainly one of the most unique events I’ve been to and it was so cool to get to experience it. You can catch the coverage still on Red Bull TV if you’re interested.

02/11/2023

Excited to be heading back out to Switzerland for a couple of days for an exciting adventure in a harness - more on that soon. In the meantime, here’s a photo of an Ibex from our last Swiss adventure to pass the time whilst we wait on a stormy runway! 🌪️🇨🇭

20/10/2023

Wrapping up our trip Fontainebleau a little earlier than expected, but a few autumnal days in the forest with friends was a treat that I’m very grateful to have enjoyed. I’m especially aware this week of how it truly is a privilege to live free from violence and war. The wealth of having carefree time with those I love is something I’m incredibly grateful for.

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🪨: Sophie, Roche aux Oiseaux

18/10/2023

We only had a few days climbing in the forest before the rain stopped play, but a nice few days it was.🌲

I’ve seen some progress on boulders I’ve been working at my limit and it’s been nice to return to boulders I’ve enjoyed previously.

Fontainebleau remains one of my favourite places & this week I’ve been really grateful for some time on rock to reel in the brainbox. 🧠 💭

🪨: Black Hole Sun 6C/6B+
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11/10/2023

I’ve been marking HMB milestones since the first 100 people subscribed to the channel.

Never did I imagine I’d be celebrating a community of 90,000 a few years later, and getting to do so in a place I have lots of fond climbing memories. A couple of weeks with friends in Fontainebleau feels like the perfect send off to a wonderful summer and a great transition into climbing outdoors again.

If you subscribe to the channel or watch the videos, thank you! HMB continues to be the project I’ve given most of myself to, and something I feel really proud to work on alongside talented and inspiring people.
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10/10/2023

Some Snaps from the US 🇺🇸

September in America absolutely flew. Grateful for the experiences and for the people who welcomed us to make our time stateside so special.

We filmed a lot of episodes and explored the climbing (and coffee) in four new cities. There’s a rhythm of chaos that I find myself in fairly often with HmB, but I wouldn’t change the white knuckle ride for much.

Now, into the editing hole for the winter and maybe the videos will be finished by the time the allure of tacos and beautiful alpine climbing pulls us back.

30/09/2023

If, like me, you watch professional competition climbers jumping around on comp style boulders and think, “that must be V1million”, you might be a little further off the mark than you think.

The interesting think about competition bouldering is that the dynamic and fast paced boulders we see on our screens are so movement, timing and positioning dependent, there might be a decent argument for not really being able to grade them using the generic climbing grades at all.

Grades aside, they’re still extremely tricky, as my guest today knows only too well. Ross is a professional climber and comp athlete from the USA, and today we’re recreating a World Cup replica, digging into what gives comp climbing it’s difficulty and asking, what could it look like if you could scale comp boulders to an intermediate climber?

Ross Fulkerson and Hannah Morris attempt to climb a World Cup Boulder scaled for intermediate climbers. Visit https://squarespace.com/hannahmorris to save 10...

19/08/2023

Happy Global Climbing Day.

I’ve been climbing for 10 years this year - wild huh? I feel lucky to have found something I enjoy so much, and a sport I’m so passionate about paying forward. When sharing my passion for climbing became my full time work, I worried proximity might change how I loved it, but I think I love it all the more as time goes on.

If you’re a climber, I hope you enjoy climbing in some form today.

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30/07/2023

I didn’t catch the screenshot on this one right on time, but this week we passed the 80,000 subscriber milestone on Hannah Morris Bouldering.

This summer has been a whirlwind. For the channel, there’ve been some really fulfilling projects, the opportunity to learn and be inspired by guests and seemingly impossible challenges. There have been some valleys and peaks personally - some days I still feel like I can’t swim against the waves, others I’m surfing the best swell. Either way, i’m grateful to be caught up in the tides of something that I love, and grateful to the people who help me do it.

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08/07/2023

The first leg of our European road trip is over. We’re heading back home to catch up with friends and work before setting off again for the high summer - we’re not sure exactly where we’ll end up yet. That’s kind of the fun of it.

We’ve had a whirlwind few weeks, seeing new places, climbing and working on some cool projects with old and new friends. I’m really stoked that I get to work like this and really grateful to have the time to figure things out. It’s taken a little figuring out.

Moving the business and our lives into the van whilst also trying to make the most of new places and opportunity brought about some challenges I was expecting, and many more I wasn’t. It feels like we’ve been in the van forever and we’ve already learned a lot about life on the road. Looking forward to ironing things out for the next trip!

Photo from a hike in the Aiguilles Rouges, one of the more adventurous mountain days of our trip. Taken by 🌲