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Alex Johnson (born 1989) US, five-time American national bouldering champion and two-time Bouldering World Cup stage winner Raghav Joneja (born 1997) India, youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest Chris Jones (1939–2024) UK–US, first ascent of north face of North Twin Peak and other routes in Rockies and Andes
In 2015, she completed her first V13 (8B) in Rocklands, South Africa by completing the first female ascent of Ray of Light. [4]Williams is noted for her Highball bouldering, in which the climber attempts a very tall boulder problem without rope protection, combining the physicality of bouldering with the mental discipline of free soloing.
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Born in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture, [6] Ogata began bouldering at age 10 after he saw the sport on television. [7] At age 17, he won the lead competition at the 2015 Japan Youth National Championships, [8] as well as the bouldering competitions at the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships [9] and the IFSC Climbing Asian Youth Championships [10] in the Male Youth A (age 15–17) category.
She is known for her bouldering for which in 2002, she became the first American female to win IFSC World Cup bouldering competitions, and topped the IFSC world boulder rankings in 2002. Rands was the first American female to climb boulders of grade V11 (8A), and V12 (8A+), and was the second-ever female in history to climb a 7C+/8A boulder.
In rock-climbing, a first free ascent (FFA) is the first redpoint, onsight or flash of a single-pitch, multi-pitch (or big wall), or boulder climbing route that did not involve using aid equipment to help progression or resting; the ascent must therefore be performed in either a sport, a traditional, or a free solo manner.
Rock climbing routes at high-altitude, such as on big wall routes like Eternal Flame on the Trango Towers, present additional physical challenges. [9] [10] Traversing routes, by their horizontal nature, can extend to great distances, [11] and the world's longest rock climb is the 4,500-metre (14,800 ft) El Capitan Girdle Traverse on El Capitan ...
Most climbers say anything above 4.5 m (15 ft) is a highball and can range in height up to 10.5–12 m (35–40 ft) where highball bouldering then turns into free soloing. Highball bouldering may have begun in 1961 when John Gill, without top-rope rehearsal, bouldered a steep face on a 11.5 m (37 ft) granite spire called The Thimble.