Ashima Shiraishi was six years old when her parents took her to New York City’s Central Park and she scrambled up Rat Rock, a popular bouldering spot in the southwest corner of the park. She ...

American climber Ashima Shiraishi has repeated the 8b+ boulder problem Jade in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. American climber Ashima Shiraishi has reported on her Instagram account ...

14-year-old American climber Ashima Shiraishi becomes the first woman to send an 8C boulder problem with her repeat of Horizon at Mount Hiei in Japan. © Brett Lowell ...

In some ways, Frederick Law Olmsted made Ashima Shiraishi a climber. She was 6 when she first tried to scale Rat Rock, a long, low outcropping of Manhattan schist in Central Park, just north of ...

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