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Scaling a Wall with the World’s Most Talented Rock-Climber

A fourteen-year-old girl named Ashima Shiraishi is making rock-climbing history.

Released on 01/04/2016

Transcript

(slow piano music)

[Girl] Climbing is this beautiful thing.

It's like a puzzle.

When you look at a climb, you have to solve it.

(slow piano music)

Once you've climbed for as long

as I have been climbing, for eight years,

it's so natural that it's almost like walking.

(soft music)

I try to not think so that I don't doubt myself.

I have tons of struggles.

99% of the time is frustration and just falling.

It hurts a lot and it's hard

to get over falling and failing.

The reason I climb is because

of the satisfaction that you feel

after getting to the top.

You realize that all the frustration

and all the stress that you put into

that climb were worth it.

That's the climber's life.

(soft music)

Starring: Pari Dukovic