Southern smoke, 8c+, by Ashima Shirashi

by Björn Pohl - UKC Oct/2012
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+Ashima Shiraishi on Southern smoke, 8c+, Bob Marley, Red River Gorge, 188 kb
Ashima Shiraishi on Southern smoke, 8c+, Bob Marley, Red River Gorge
Björn Pohl - UKC, Oct 2012
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11 year old, Ashima Shirashi just keeps taking giant steps. Now she has repeated Joe Kinder's Southern smoke, 8c+, at the Bob marley crag, Red River Gorge.

After a 3rd go 8b/+ the first day and an 8b+ flash the second, it took a few days for the next ground breaking ascent. Ashima was working on Lucifer, 8c+, for a bit before deciding to go for Southern smoke instead.

The route adds a direct start into the crux of Ultra-perm, 8b, a few meters right of another 8c+, 50 words for pump, and Joe describes it as:

...simple and purely stamina/resistance. There is one shake spot on some getto holds after you have climbed something in the 13d/14a [8b/+] range. After this the real crux comes that surely checks in around 13c/d [8a+/b] to the top.

Ashima is the youngest person ever to climb 8c+. Yes, younger even than Adam Ondra, who was 12 when he did Alien carnage at Castillon.

Deadpoint magazine has the full story and several more photos.


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