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- Alberto Gines López. Born: October 23, 2002. Birthplace: Cáceres, Spain. Speciality: Lead/Speed/Combined. Standout climb: Gold at Tokyo 2020. Alberto Ginés López, just 18 back then, swooped in and shocked everyone by snagging the first-ever Sport Climbing gold in Tokyo.
- Jain Kim. Born: September 11, 1988. Birthplace: Goyang, South Korea. Speciality: Lead/Bouldering/Speed. Standout climb: Climbed the 555m Lotte World Tower in Seoul, South Korea in 2017.
- Oriane Bertone. Born: March 10, 2005. Birthplace: La Réunion, France. Speciality: Bouldering/Lead. Standout climb: Completed a V14 (8B+) boulder problem in 2018 aged 12.
- Angie Scarth-Johnson. Born: May 20, 2004. Birthplace: Canberra, Australia. Speciality: Free. Standout climb: Climbing Welcome to Tijuana 8c (33) in Rodellar, Spain at only nine years of age.
- Nicolas Hojac. Nationality: Swiss. Born:1992. Instagram: nicolashojac. Nicolas Hojac is a Swiss mountaineer with a passion for adventure that incorporates everything from ice climbing and free climbing to paragliding and photography.
- Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja. Nationality: Nepali. Born: 1983. Instagram: nimsdai. Nims Purja blasted through the world’s 14 highest mountains in little more than six months in 2019 – which certainly gives him some pretty high credentials in the world of mountaineering.
- Andrzej Bargiel. Nationality: Polish. Born: 1988. Instagram: andrzejbargiel. Not only does this headline-hitting alpinist scale the toughest mountains at super-fast speed, Bargiel often skis back down them.
- Denis Urubko. Nationality: Russian/Polish. Born: 1973. Facebook: denisurubko. This speed climber has made 22 climbs on 8,000m high mountains in the last 20 years – and he’s not done ticking off new routes, starting the new decade with a winter attempt on the world’s 12th highest summit, Broad Peak.
Jun 1, 2023 · Alex Honnold. Alex Megos. Sasha DiGiulian. Adam Ondra. Tommy Caldwell. Ashima Shiraishi. Barbara Zangerl. Adam Ondra and Chris Sharma are one of the best climbers in the world and undoubtedly at the top of the world climbing scene. But a new generation of young savages is already in the starting blocks, cracking the world's most difficult ...
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- Adam Ondra. Born: February 5, 1993. Birthplace: Brno, Czech Republic. Speciality: Sport/Bouldering. Standout climb: Silence in Flatanger, Norway – hardest-ever free climb route [Grade 9c] (2017)
- Janja Garnbret. Born: March 12, 1999. Birthplace: Šmartno pri Slovenj Gradcu, Slovenia. Speciality: Bouldering. Standout climbs: Going an entire IFSC Bouldering World Cup season undefeated (2019)
- Chris Sharma. Born: April 23, 1981. Birthplace: Santa Cruz, California, USA. Speciality: Sport / Deep Water Solo. Standout climbs: Es Pontàs/Alasha in Mallorca, Spain – hardest ever deep-water solo ascents (2007/2017); La Dura Dura in Oliana, Spain – hardest confirmed free climb (2013)
- Alex Honnold. Born: August 17, 1985. Birthplace: Sacramento, California, USA. Speciality: Free Solo/Speed. Standout climb: Freerider in Yosemite, USA – first free solo ascent on El Capitan (2017)
- Alex Honnold
- Sasha Digiulian
- Adam Ondra
- Ashima Shiraishi
- Jakob Schubert
- Angy Eiter
- Alex Megos
- Shauna Coxsey
- Tommy Caldwell
- Janja Garnbredt
Perhaps the best-known rock climber of all time, Alex Honnold is an accomplished traditional climber and free soloist who came into the national spotlight in 2012 after he free soloed the Regular Northwest Faceof Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Although his 2012 ascent of Half Dome garnered him international recognition and even an interview o...
Sasha DiGiulian got her start in the climbing world at the ripe old age of 6 years old in the indoor climbing circuit. By the age of 7, she was competing in various climbing competitions and by the age of 11, she was climbing at 5.13b (8a). In high school, DiGiulian was redpointing 5.14c (8c+) and, soon after leaving school she became the first Nor...
Impossibly strong, Adam Ondra is a professional climber from the Czech Republic whose known for his first ascents of some of the world’s most difficult climbs, including more than 1,500 ascents of routes harder than 5.13b (8a). Ondra first formally got into climbing at the age of 6 and, by the age of 13, he was already climbing 5.14d (9a). By 2011,...
One of the youngest climbers on the international climbing scene today is Ashima Shiraishi, a world-class boulder and sport climber who got her start in climbing at the age of 6 on boulders in New York City’s Central Park. Shiraishi came into the national spotlight in the early 2000s and the mid 2010s after she was the youngest person to ever climb...
Compared to some of the others on our list, Jakob Schubert was a relative late comer to climbing, having gotten into the sport when he was 12 years old, though he’s made a name for himself in competition climbing ever since. Just 1 year after he started climbing, in 2004, Schubert competed in the World Youth Championships and the European Youth Cup...
Angy Eiter isn’t quite a household name yet, even in the climbing world, but she definitely should be. Over the course of her career, Eiter has racked up an impressive list of ascents and accomplishments which more than merit her inclusion on our list of the best climbers in the world right now. Eiter started climbing at the age of 11 after moving ...
An accomplished outdoor and indoor climber, Alex Megos is known for putting up first ascents and redpoints on some of the world’s hardest sport climbs and bolder problems. Megos first started climbing with his father at the age of 6 and, by 10 years old, he had become a fairly experienced multipitch climber in his home region of Bavaria, Germany. W...
The most successful British competition climber of all time, Shauna Coxsey is an indoor climbing phenom who has dominated the climbing world since 2012. Coxey began climbing at the age of 4 and started competition climbing on the international circuit in 2012 when she placed third in the World Cup bouldering division. One year later, she sent her f...
Although most professional climbers specialize in one discipline of climbing, Tommy Caldwell is one of the best all-around rock climbers on the planet. Caldwell grew up in Colorado’s Front Range and he got his start as a climber at a young age, climbing in Rocky Mountain National Park and Yosemite National Park alongside his father, a professional ...
One of the most promising young climbers on the international competition scene, Janja Garnbret is a lead climbing and bouldering phenom who’s best known for being the first climber to ever win all Bouldering World Cup titles in a single season. After she started climbing at the age of 7, Garnbredt first hit the international climbing competition s...
Pay attention to holds 12 and 30, which cause some of the best climbers in the world (Jakob Schubert and Alberto Gines-Lopez) to fall. Ondra basically treats these as rest holds. His ascent of Jade V14 (below). With Daniel Woods, the best boulderer in the world, watching, Ondra flashes the famed route and then shrugs it off as if it were nothing.
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Mar 6, 2020 · March 6, 2020. BRNO, Czech Republic — The world’s best climber is a wiry 27-year-old with a curly mop of hair and a noticeably long neck. His name is Adam Ondra, and on a misty fall day in an ...
