Yosemite V12 Highball Story Finally Drops on Film!

Pablo Hammack and Keenan Takahashi climbed a new highball in Yosemite in 2021 called Zima Blue V12. Two climbers, one problem, granite humming beneath their fingertips, this wasn’t just a send, it was a moment.

They moved like surfers reading a set, like skiers linking turns through cold smoke, tuned into the rhythm of the stone and the silence between breaths. Yosemite, this place has always been bigger than any one climb. Cathedral walls, cosmic cracks, ghosts of first ascensionists whispering beta through the pines.

From Camp 4 fires to chalk-stained blocs, it’s where climbers learned how to dream loud. Every new line here nods to the past while kicking dust toward the future, and Zima Blue slides right into that lineage, cool and deliberate, high above the pads with consequence humming like a low bass note.

Now the footage is out, first ascents, first visions, the real thing finally rolling. It’s style-forward, no rush, all feel. Beatnik cool with dirt under the nails, flow on bullet granite. Drop in, tune out, and watch two climbers add another verse to Yosemite’s endless poem.