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A global film festival showcasing the best in adventure sports promises that 2017 will be full of stories of great female athletes

Yosemite explodes at the seams with rich climbing lore. The towering granite walls of Half Dome and El Capitan attract rock monkeys like moths to flame, and any cragsman worth his sauce knows that legends are made here. Now 60 years of Yosemite’s climbing history—and its colorful tapestry of bold dirtbags and outlaws—come to life…

Lynn Hill leading pitch two (25, 5.12b) of The Free Route on The Totem Pole - a 65-metre dolerite column at Cape Hauy, Tasmania, Australia.

Rock climbing is exploding nationwide right now, with new climbing walls opening every day and people like our cover star, Jared Leto, blowing up Instagram. But to find the source of rock climbing's cool, you have to go back to the 1970's. That's when a California crew called The Stonemasters took the sport to new heights (literally) from Joshua Tree to Yosemite and beyond, fueled by Jimi Hendrix, LSD, and the undeniable drive to look like no one else while doing it.

Lynn Hill & John Long at Camp 4, Yosemite, 1970s.