UKC

Ashima Shiraishi has repeated Fred Nicole's Golden Shadow, ~8B+, in Rocklands, South Africa.
This means 13-year old Ashima is the second woman, after Tomoko Ogawa, to climb this grade, and of course the youngest.



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In reply to UKC News:

Amazing. She's also the second youngest person to ever climb the grade, after Mirko Caballero

In reply to UKC News:
But how much does she weigh??

In reply to long:
Does it matter how much she weighs? What is her reach? Try and give credit where credit is due rather being cynical and negative.

In reply to UKC News:

Incredible, really amazing effort. Still, I can probably catch up with her when the boys, booze and drugs teenage rebellion kicks in

(Though she is not a "woman", she is a girl so maybe "second female" would be a better way to put it).

In reply to Ian Dunn:

Well put ian

In reply to Ian Dunn:


It doesn't matter, but maybe it's interesting.

In reply to Jonny2vests:



I think the point is that people often use strength to weight ratio to try to explain (and dismiss) why kids do well (certainly happens to my kids a lot) when in fact it's a tiny component.

Reach is a lot more interesting, I often wonder how these kids are getting up adult problems, do they hunt out short guy friendly stuff?

Most of the short person techniques they've used before, you'd think, become less and less useful over 7A?

In reply to winhill:


Well presumably they don't get up everything. If a problem has only one long reach way of doing it they probably won't even try it in the first place. And a news report or video about someone who couldn't reach some holds wouldn't make an interesting story.

In reply to stp:

On the Real Rock tour film about her, she managed a roof problem by using tiny intermediate holds that adults wouldn't normally use. Small hands probably help.

In reply to winhill:

I doubt that actually.


Amongst other things, they use their strength to weight ratio. And a shed load of talent of course. And the ability to not get poisoned by lactic acid.