Ashima Shiraishi

Ashima Shiraishi is an American rock climber, born in 2001, who began climbing at age six at Rat Rock in New York's Central Park with her father. Within a few years she was among the top young boulderers, competition climbers and sport climbers in the world, with international competition wins and many first female and youngest ascents. At 13 she became the second woman and the youngest person to climb a sport route graded 9a, and in 2016 she made the second ascent of Horizon on Mount Hiei in Japan, becoming the first woman to climb a V15 boulder. She is the subject of the short documentary Return to the Red from 2012.