Being a pro climber means more than climbing hard — it means turning your life into content, your solitude into a story, your freedom into a franchise.
Siebe Vanhee sets out to onsight Voie Petit, a brutal 12-pitch 8a+ line at 3,500m on the Grand Capucin, completely alone — no partner, no static ropes, just lead rope solo technique and a drone circling above. But even a solo mission as a professional climber has a crew: a manager on the phone, a sponsor waiting for footage, a director on the glacier, and Vanhee himself playing climber, cameraman and storyteller all at once, selfie-interviewing his own exhaustion pitch by pitch.
Two days of melting shoes, blown attempts, a lonely bivy under the stars, and a hard-won summit — followed, days later, by climbing it all again just to get the shot.
FRAMED is a raw look at what it really costs to live off the thing you love: the freedom of the mountains, framed by the demands of the job.
FRAMED with Siebe Vanhee
Siebe Vanhee sets out to onsight Voie Petit, a brutal 12-pitch 8a+ line at 3,500m on the Grand Capucin, completely alone — no partner, no static ropes, just lead rope solo technique and a drone circling above. But even a solo mission as a professional climber has a crew: a manager on the phone, a sponsor waiting for footage, a director on the glacier, and Vanhee himself playing climber, cameraman and storyteller all at once, selfie-interviewing his own exhaustion pitch by pitch.