Here's a look at twelve women who could shortly make bouldering history…
There is no sport quite like rock climbing, where both women and men compete on even playing fields – be it up a long sport route, a nerve-wrecking trad line or pulling on some of the hardest physical moves on a boulder problem. Still, a look at the numbers may suggest that women are trailing behind the men in terms of the hardest ascents. Whatever gap there may be, it is closing fast – especially in bouldering.