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Connor lettin’ the dogs out. 🦶 Watch BD Athlete @connor.herson raw-dog-raw-send Stranger Than Fiction on our YouTube channel. Link in the bio. 🎥: @chrisnataliephoto
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Connor lettin’ the dogs out. 🦶 Watch BD Athlete @connor.herson raw-dog-raw-send Stranger Than Fiction on our YouTube channel. Link in the bio. 🎥: @chrisnataliephoto
Drifter’s Escape—FA of the world’s first trad 5.15a / 9a+ by BD Athlete @connor.herson. Get eyes on an exclusive Director’s Cut of this historic ascent at the @mellowclimbing film tour before the full film series drops on @blackdiamond this spring. First stop at the Boulder Theater, February 27th. Link in bio for full tour dates. 🎥: @ericbissell // @dv_fitzgerald
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Drifter’s Escape—FA of the world’s first trad 5.15a / 9a+ by BD Athlete @connor.herson. Get eyes on an exclusive Director’s Cut of this historic ascent at the @mellowclimbing film tour before the full film series drops on @blackdiamond this spring. First stop at the Boulder Theater, February 27th. Link in bio for full tour dates. 🎥: @ericbissell // @dv_fitzgerald
Been sitting on some news for the last few months but now it’s time to share! Over the past two summers, I’ve had the gift of climbing on this beautiful panel of Squamish granite. My time on the route was remarkably fun and positive, in no small part because of the people I shared those moments with. I have so much more to say, but for now I’ll leave it here: to everyone who’s supported or worked the route with me, thank you. I wouldn’t trade those days for the world.

FA of “Drifter’s Escape,” proposed 5.15a, Summer 2025.

*** Stay tuned for an upcoming film series by @ericbissell and @dv_fitzgerald documenting this ascent and more, dropping @blackdiamond this spring. Catch a sneak peek at the @mellowclimbing film tour! 📸: @christian_adam_ and @tarakerzhner
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Been sitting on some news for the last few months but now it’s time to share! Over the past two summers, I’ve had the gift of climbing on this beautiful panel of Squamish granite. My time on the route was remarkably fun and positive, in no small part because of the people I shared those moments with. I have so much more to say, but for now I’ll leave it here: to everyone who’s supported or worked the route with me, thank you. I wouldn’t trade those days for the world.

FA of “Drifter’s Escape,” proposed 5.15a, Summer 2025.

*** Stay tuned for an upcoming film series by @ericbissell and @dv_fitzgerald documenting this ascent and more, dropping @blackdiamond this spring. Catch a sneak peek at the @mellowclimbing film tour! 📸: @christian_adam_ and @tarakerzhner
“He who stays behind gets left behind”—that’s the pirates code. In 2012, filmmaker and photographer @benjaminbditto, and professional climber @mason_earle equipped an immaculate line in Tuolumne’s high country. But their attempts to free the route were thwarted when Mason’s life changed drastically. With the help of BD Athlete @connor.herson, Ditto and Mason found a way to keep the dream alive… Watch ‘The Pirates Code’ now at the link in our bio.
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“He who stays behind gets left behind”—that’s the pirates code. In 2012, filmmaker and photographer @benjaminbditto, and professional climber @mason_earle equipped an immaculate line in Tuolumne’s high country. But their attempts to free the route were thwarted when Mason’s life changed drastically. With the help of BD Athlete @connor.herson, Ditto and Mason found a way to keep the dream alive… Watch ‘The Pirates Code’ now at the link in our bio.
We’re proud to announce the first Mellow Film Tour. Come watch the next generation make history. Premiering February 27th at the Boulder Theater. Tickets and additional info on mellowclimbing.com Supported by: @thenorthface @vibram @yeti @blackdiamond
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We’re proud to announce the first Mellow Film Tour. Come watch the next generation make history. Premiering February 27th at the Boulder Theater. Tickets and additional info on mellowclimbing.com Supported by: @thenorthface @vibram @yeti @blackdiamond
BD Athlete @connor.herson spent as many weekends as possible in the Valley this spring during a grueling quarter at Stanford. The objective? Ground up, in-a-day ascents.   “It turned out to be the best season of climbing I’ve had while in school: three free ascents of El Cap in three consecutive weekends, plus four 5.13 multipitches in two consecutive weekends—all ground-up. More importantly than these ticks, though, I finally felt like I was climbing smoothly on Valley granite, a skill which has always felt fleeting at best for me.” Check out Connor’s full spring quarter trip report now at the link in our bio! The final ticklist… Wet Lycra Nightmare (5.13d) Golden Gate (5.13a) El Corazon (5.13b) Pre-Muir (5.13c/d) Westie Face (5.13-) Final Frontier (5.13b) Father Time (5.13b)
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BD Athlete @connor.herson spent as many weekends as possible in the Valley this spring during a grueling quarter at Stanford. The objective? Ground up, in-a-day ascents.   “It turned out to be the best season of climbing I’ve had while in school: three free ascents of El Cap in three consecutive weekends, plus four 5.13 multipitches in two consecutive weekends—all ground-up. More importantly than these ticks, though, I finally felt like I was climbing smoothly on Valley granite, a skill which has always felt fleeting at best for me.” Check out Connor’s full spring quarter trip report now at the link in our bio! The final ticklist… Wet Lycra Nightmare (5.13d) Golden Gate (5.13a) El Corazon (5.13b) Pre-Muir (5.13c/d) Westie Face (5.13-) Final Frontier (5.13b) Father Time (5.13b)
Three days after getting down from Triple Direct, I freed the Nose in 9.5 hours with no falls! The day was supposed to be a “free as can be” recon mission, but when I sent the Great Roof around 8:00 am, I thought that it might be game on. Still, though, I could never have guessed that I’d fire off Changing Corners first go, and that it would feel the easiest it’s ever felt! Growing up, I saw Lynn Hill’s 1994 free in-a-day ascent of the Nose as one of the greatest achievements in climbing. Even when I freed the Nose in 2018, I still couldn’t fathom the idea of climbing all those pitches in the same day, a feat only repeated by Tommy Caldwell. Like any other climber growing up in the Valley, I’ve always dreamed of one day being able to climb something like that, and actually doing it was one of the most fun and rewarding days of climbing I’ve ever experienced! Thanks Lynn for all the inspiration, and thank you Dad for jumaring and supporting an El Cap route for the second time in the same week! @blackdiamond @lasportivana
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Three days after getting down from Triple Direct, I freed the Nose in 9.5 hours with no falls! The day was supposed to be a “free as can be” recon mission, but when I sent the Great Roof around 8:00 am, I thought that it might be game on. Still, though, I could never have guessed that I’d fire off Changing Corners first go, and that it would feel the easiest it’s ever felt! Growing up, I saw Lynn Hill’s 1994 free in-a-day ascent of the Nose as one of the greatest achievements in climbing. Even when I freed the Nose in 2018, I still couldn’t fathom the idea of climbing all those pitches in the same day, a feat only repeated by Tommy Caldwell. Like any other climber growing up in the Valley, I’ve always dreamed of one day being able to climb something like that, and actually doing it was one of the most fun and rewarding days of climbing I’ve ever experienced! Thanks Lynn for all the inspiration, and thank you Dad for jumaring and supporting an El Cap route for the second time in the same week! @blackdiamond @lasportivana
Triple Direct • First Free Ascent What a journey this has been. I’ll write a longer piece about my six-year saga with this route in a few days, but here’s the short version: Although it’s just a linkup (effectively a much harder start to The Nose, with Changing Corners still the crux pitch), this climb has been on my mind more than most other Valley climbs. In fall 2019, I came painfully close to freeing the route (twice!), unsending Changing Corners by falling off an “easy” exit move. I missed the next three years of valley seasons for various reasons (Covid, wildfires, school, etc), and Triple Direct fell to the backburner. Still, I never forgot about the route, and I knew I needed to return to it at some point. Coming back to Changing Corners this year was intimidating. It was going to be an entirely different pitch, given that I’m about six inches taller than when I last did it and no longer have a kid’s build. I was scared I wouldn’t be able to do it anymore. I had to re-learn the pitch with a completely new method, climbing no move the same way as when I was younger. It was wildly different: certain sections felt much easier than I remembered while other moves felt harder. On a three-day send push a few weeks ago, I linked the pitch together for the first time since I was fifteen years old and finally finished Triple Direct! This ascent means a lot to me. Thank you dad for your unending support through both the 2019 season and this year! I couldn’t have done it without you. Sorry for making you jug the route so many times!
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Triple Direct • First Free Ascent What a journey this has been. I’ll write a longer piece about my six-year saga with this route in a few days, but here’s the short version: Although it’s just a linkup (effectively a much harder start to The Nose, with Changing Corners still the crux pitch), this climb has been on my mind more than most other Valley climbs. In fall 2019, I came painfully close to freeing the route (twice!), unsending Changing Corners by falling off an “easy” exit move. I missed the next three years of valley seasons for various reasons (Covid, wildfires, school, etc), and Triple Direct fell to the backburner. Still, I never forgot about the route, and I knew I needed to return to it at some point. Coming back to Changing Corners this year was intimidating. It was going to be an entirely different pitch, given that I’m about six inches taller than when I last did it and no longer have a kid’s build. I was scared I wouldn’t be able to do it anymore. I had to re-learn the pitch with a completely new method, climbing no move the same way as when I was younger. It was wildly different: certain sections felt much easier than I remembered while other moves felt harder. On a three-day send push a few weeks ago, I linked the pitch together for the first time since I was fifteen years old and finally finished Triple Direct! This ascent means a lot to me. Thank you dad for your unending support through both the 2019 season and this year! I couldn’t have done it without you. Sorry for making you jug the route so many times!
Crown Royale (5.14c) - 3rd ascent Last August I spent 2 weeks with an all time crew (@shawnraboutou @babsizangerl @jacopolarcher @carlodenali ) climbing in Jøssingfjord — my first time in Norway! Fun times trying hard and getting gobied in an incredible place 🤘 @ericbissell was there to capture the trip — check out the @blackdiamond channel for a sweet video by Eric and @dv_fitzgerald about the route! 📸: @christian_adam_ @blackdiamond @lasportivana
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Crown Royale (5.14c) - 3rd ascent Last August I spent 2 weeks with an all time crew (@shawnraboutou @babsizangerl @jacopolarcher @carlodenali ) climbing in Jøssingfjord — my first time in Norway! Fun times trying hard and getting gobied in an incredible place 🤘 @ericbissell was there to capture the trip — check out the @blackdiamond channel for a sweet video by Eric and @dv_fitzgerald about the route! 📸: @christian_adam_ @blackdiamond @lasportivana
Join the BD Athlete Team and make your voice heard. Call your senators TODAY and tell them to vote NO on H.R. 1! Link in our bio for phone numbers, email templates, and mailing addresses. 🤝 @alpinist007 @alpineworks @allie.pine @coldfear @connor.herson @chris_deuto @kyehalpin @bookofsamuel @ethansalvo
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Join the BD Athlete Team and make your voice heard. Call your senators TODAY and tell them to vote NO on H.R. 1! Link in our bio for phone numbers, email templates, and mailing addresses. 🤝 @alpinist007 @alpineworks @allie.pine @coldfear @connor.herson @chris_deuto @kyehalpin @bookofsamuel @ethansalvo
Growing up in California, BD Athlete @connor.herson spent some of his most formative years as a climber at Jailhouse Rock—but that wouldn’t have been possible without @accessfund. When a housing development nearly closed the crag, Access Fund stepped in. In 2010, they secured a permanent conservation easement, saving 75 acres and over 100 routes that helped shape Connor into the athlete he is today. This is just one of the many reasons why we continue to support Access Fund and the work they do for climbers everywhere. They’re fighting to keep climbing areas open—buying threatened land, advocating for climbers, and giving local climbing organizations the resources they need to care for their home crags. For the next two weeks, Black Diamond is matching every donation to Access Fund up to $80,000. That means anything you give today goes twice as far. $10 becomes $20. $50 becomes $100. If access to climbing means as much to you as it does to me, this is the time to give back. Visit accessfund.org/conserve now to donate—link in bio!
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Growing up in California, BD Athlete @connor.herson spent some of his most formative years as a climber at Jailhouse Rock—but that wouldn’t have been possible without @accessfund. When a housing development nearly closed the crag, Access Fund stepped in. In 2010, they secured a permanent conservation easement, saving 75 acres and over 100 routes that helped shape Connor into the athlete he is today. This is just one of the many reasons why we continue to support Access Fund and the work they do for climbers everywhere. They’re fighting to keep climbing areas open—buying threatened land, advocating for climbers, and giving local climbing organizations the resources they need to care for their home crags. For the next two weeks, Black Diamond is matching every donation to Access Fund up to $80,000. That means anything you give today goes twice as far. $10 becomes $20. $50 becomes $100. If access to climbing means as much to you as it does to me, this is the time to give back. Visit accessfund.org/conserve now to donate—link in bio!
Another classic testpiece take-down by BD Athlete @connor.herson — second ascent of Towing the Line (5.14) on the Empath Cliff in Kirkwood, California this fall. Link in bio for the full send. 🤘 🎥: @neilson.ben
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Another classic testpiece take-down by BD Athlete @connor.herson — second ascent of Towing the Line (5.14) on the Empath Cliff in Kirkwood, California this fall. Link in bio for the full send. 🤘 🎥: @neilson.ben
Connor Herson was born in it. The son of undercover Valley legend Jim Herson, he was climbing big walls when most kids were playing tee ball. By 14 he climbed 14.c. By 15 he free climbed the Nose. And now? Well, now he’s single-handedly ushering in the future of our sport by becoming a true hybrid mutant—a person who can climb 5.15 moves above a bolt or an offset Z4 with equal ease. So, what does Connor do with these next level abilities? Try to climb the hardest trad routes in the world. In one season. Buckle up. This is ‘Born from the Climbing Life: Of Legacy and Lineage’. An entire spring campaign following Connor’s epic 2025 season, featuring a full line up of BD Athlete’s climbing with him around the world. Episode 1 drops 3/10. Welcome to the future. 🎥: @ericbissell + @dv_fitzgerald
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Connor Herson was born in it. The son of undercover Valley legend Jim Herson, he was climbing big walls when most kids were playing tee ball. By 14 he climbed 14.c. By 15 he free climbed the Nose. And now? Well, now he’s single-handedly ushering in the future of our sport by becoming a true hybrid mutant—a person who can climb 5.15 moves above a bolt or an offset Z4 with equal ease. So, what does Connor do with these next level abilities? Try to climb the hardest trad routes in the world. In one season. Buckle up. This is ‘Born from the Climbing Life: Of Legacy and Lineage’. An entire spring campaign following Connor’s epic 2025 season, featuring a full line up of BD Athlete’s climbing with him around the world. Episode 1 drops 3/10. Welcome to the future. 🎥: @ericbissell + @dv_fitzgerald
@connor.herson on Magic Line (5.14c). Full film now live on the Fusis Films YouTube channel. One of Yosemite’s most legendary single-pitch cracks, Magic Line is known for its powerful cruxes and delicate laybacks. First put up by Ron Kauk in 1996, it has only seen five ascents since. 🎥@joshnoll
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@connor.herson on Magic Line (5.14c). Full film now live on the Fusis Films YouTube channel. One of Yosemite’s most legendary single-pitch cracks, Magic Line is known for its powerful cruxes and delicate laybacks. First put up by Ron Kauk in 1996, it has only seen five ascents since. 🎥@joshnoll
Finding a partner for the 𝕯𝖆𝖜𝖓 𝖂𝖆𝖑𝖑 was undoubtedly the first big crux: potential partners for something like this aren’t easy to find! 🆂🅴🅱: "Like many, I first heard about Connor Herson in 2018 when, at just 15, he freeclimbed the Nose. In the years since, I’ve followed his progress and numerous ascents with great admiration. How lucky and psyched I felt when I received this message from him: “Hey, do you have a partner for the DW this year?”. That’s how, pretty simply, we had the chance and privilege to spend the entire month of December together (before he had to go back to school), working the route right in the heart of the Yosemite winter, for better or worse. He was discovering the route and I was reconnecting with an old friend: hours spent jugging and hauling, aid climbing pitches, rigging nearly 1,000 meters of rope, hanging belays in the cold, team‑working through method analysis (which Connor excels at. You should’ve seen, he nearly found a way to bypass crux 3 on pitch 14 with an enormous dyno) An experience like that truly elevates a partnership and builds friendship. We shared intense emotions: fear, fatigue, discouragement, hope, joy… We supported each other mentally and physically. We discussed methods, decisions, strategy, life 😂,.. Connor is for me a big inspiration, and I can’t wait to see what the future brings for him. Thank you for your support, your humility, your motivation, your passion, your energy ❤️" 🅲🅾🅽🅽🅾🆁: "Last fall I had the privilege of climbing with Seb, and wow; what an experience it was. During that month climbing together, Seb became one of my heroes. Always cheerful and optimistic, and incredibly generous, I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. Even when it was clear I didn’t have a chance at sending in the time I had, whereas he was nearly ready for a send push, he’d start each day by asking what pitches I wanted to try, what sections I wanted to rehearse. Not to mention that he’s an absolute wizard on the rock, making the hardest and boldest moves on the Dawn Wall look casual. This was a highlight of my Valley season, and I can’t wait to team up with him for future objectives! Thanks Seb ❤️
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Finding a partner for the 𝕯𝖆𝖜𝖓 𝖂𝖆𝖑𝖑 was undoubtedly the first big crux: potential partners for something like this aren’t easy to find! 🆂🅴🅱: "Like many, I first heard about Connor Herson in 2018 when, at just 15, he freeclimbed the Nose. In the years since, I’ve followed his progress and numerous ascents with great admiration. How lucky and psyched I felt when I received this message from him: “Hey, do you have a partner for the DW this year?”. That’s how, pretty simply, we had the chance and privilege to spend the entire month of December together (before he had to go back to school), working the route right in the heart of the Yosemite winter, for better or worse. He was discovering the route and I was reconnecting with an old friend: hours spent jugging and hauling, aid climbing pitches, rigging nearly 1,000 meters of rope, hanging belays in the cold, team‑working through method analysis (which Connor excels at. You should’ve seen, he nearly found a way to bypass crux 3 on pitch 14 with an enormous dyno) An experience like that truly elevates a partnership and builds friendship. We shared intense emotions: fear, fatigue, discouragement, hope, joy… We supported each other mentally and physically. We discussed methods, decisions, strategy, life 😂,.. Connor is for me a big inspiration, and I can’t wait to see what the future brings for him. Thank you for your support, your humility, your motivation, your passion, your energy ❤️" 🅲🅾🅽🅽🅾🆁: "Last fall I had the privilege of climbing with Seb, and wow; what an experience it was. During that month climbing together, Seb became one of my heroes. Always cheerful and optimistic, and incredibly generous, I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. Even when it was clear I didn’t have a chance at sending in the time I had, whereas he was nearly ready for a send push, he’d start each day by asking what pitches I wanted to try, what sections I wanted to rehearse. Not to mention that he’s an absolute wizard on the rock, making the hardest and boldest moves on the Dawn Wall look casual. This was a highlight of my Valley season, and I can’t wait to team up with him for future objectives! Thanks Seb ❤️

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Connor Herson (@connor.herson) has 22.5K Instagram followers with a 2.64% engagement rate over the past 12 months. Across 15 posts, Connor Herson received 103K total likes and 2.20M impressions, averaging 6.85K likes per post. This page tracks Connor Herson's performance metrics, top content, and engagement trends — updated daily.

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Connor Herson received 103K total likes across 15 posts in the last 12 months, averaging 6.85K likes per post.
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