Shawn Raboutou

Shawn Raboutou is an American rock climber, born on 18 April 1998 in Boulder, Colorado, the son of the former professional climbers Didier Raboutou and Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou and the older brother of the competition climber Brooke Raboutou. At thirteen he climbed Welcome to Tijuana, a 5.14b (8c) sport route in Rodellar, Spain. On 6 April 2022 he made the first ascent of Alphane, a V17 (9A) boulder problem in Chironico, Switzerland, though he did not announce it until August 2022, and later that year he announced the first ascent of Megatron, another V17 boulder in Colorado, making him the first climber to have climbed two different V17 problems and the sixth person to reach the grade. He took part in the IFSC World Cup circuit from 2015 to 2017 without winning a medal and took silver in the North American Cup series in 2022. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article alone.