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NEWS: 12 Year Old Girl Climbs F8a+/b

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UKC News 02 Jul 2009

[Zhenja Kazbekova catapulted from the classic F7c+ - Catapult! 320, 2 kb]

Yesterday Ukranian climber Zhenja Kazbekova redpointed New Kenigsberg (F8a+/8b) at Red Stone, Crimea. Zhenja is 12 years old.

"They introduced Zhenja to their local crags at 7 months old and she started climbing regularly aged 5..."

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=48180

Nic 02 Jul 2009

In reply to UKC News:

> They introduced Zhenja to their local crags at 7 months old

Great! I can now blame my parents for my lack of ability...

chris_j_s 02 Jul 2009

In reply to UKC News:

Seriously impressive for such a young 'un and just the kind of news to make one feel very depressed about one's current standard of climbing!!

Must train harder...

Tobias at Home 02 Jul 2009

In reply to UKC News: very impressive.

however, as always in these news items, the question is worth bringing up - does this sort of standard of climbing/training in young bodies have any developmental risks not associated with adults training?

Tobias at Home 02 Jul 2009

In reply to Tobias at Home: ah, jsut found this... http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=38030

rginns 02 Jul 2009

In reply to UKC News: Hmmm this reminds me of when the state used to pair up Gymnasts to genetically create the best Russian Gymnasts in the world - of course I couldn't possibly suggest that there was any atate involvement here, could I?

grindelwald 16 Jul 2009

In reply to rginns:
Impressive, but doing that sort of climbing at that age with no helmet, you have to wonder how long she'll be around.

Removed User 16 Jul 2009

In reply to grindelwald: What hard overhanging sport routes with clean fall zones? Yeh people are dropping dead all the time falling off those without a helmet.