The Future Is Female: Four Climbers Prove Things Are Changing in ‘Passing the Crux’

June 30, 2025

Climbing has historically been a very male-dominated sport. But, as access to the sport grows, that’s starting to change — and quickly.

Steph Davis, Cail Soria, Katie Lambert, and Erika Moncada all fell in love with climbing and have become inexorably connected to it. They come from different walks of life, and wildly different backgrounds — but this sport brought them all together and changed their lives for the better.

In the Mammut film Passing the Crux, these four female climbers explore the meaning of climbing and how it’s changing. With more climbing gyms opening in more cities than ever before, the doors into the sport are widening. Gear Junkie