Wheel of Life (V16) - Chris Webb-Parsons

Wheel of Life (V16) follows Chris Webb-Parsons on a rare, early-era look at cutting-edge bouldering as he takes on the second ascent of Dai Koyamada’s infamous testpiece in the Hollow Mountain Cave of Australia’s Grampians. In just under six minutes, the film drops you straight into the cave’s steep, shadowed world—where every body position, micro-adjustment, and breath matters on one of the hardest problems of its time. What makes this worth watching is the purity of it: no excess, just raw movement and total commitment on a climb that demands precision, power, and composure when everything is screaming to peel you off. You’ll get a front-row seat to the pace and intensity of a V16 attempt—how a climber builds confidence on razor-thin margins, fights for control through the crux, and turns a mythic line into something tangible.

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Chris Webb-Parsons climbing the 2nd ascent of Dai Koyamada's V16 The Wheel of Life in the Hollow Mountain Cave in the Grampians, Australia