Movement Legends Timeline
A century of people moving in extraordinary ways.
Moving through a park: Gwangrung, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 1923
Safety Last!
Harold Lloyd's clock-hanging scene becomes a stunt icon.
- 1928
The falling house
Buster Keaton's stunt in Steamboat Bill, Jr.
- 1958
The Nose
First ascent of El Capitan's Nose.
- 1967
Caesars Palace jump
Evel Knievel's famous crash makes him a star.
- 1985
Lost Arrow highline
Scott Balcom walks a landmark highline in Yosemite.
- Late 1980s
Parkour in Lisses
Young traceurs, including the future Yamakasi, train in the Paris suburbs.
- 1993
Free on The Nose
Lynn Hill makes the first free ascent.
- 2015
Dawn Wall
Caldwell and Jorgeson free climb the Dawn Wall.
- 2017
Silence and Freerider
Adam Ondra climbs the first 9c; Alex Honnold free solos El Capitan.
- 2021
Olympic climbing
Sport climbing debuts at Tokyo 2020.
- 2022
First FIG Parkour World Championships
Held in Tokyo.
- 2024
Paris 2024
Speed climbing gets its own Olympic medals; Garnbret wins a second gold.
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- IFSC: International Federation of Sport Climbing
- Olympics.com: Sport climbing
- National Park Service: Yosemite climbing
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