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Women in the Climbing Industry
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items We love to see women in every single industry <3 Here are some women that I follow who are leading the way for more to follow in their footsteps!
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Competetors
Outdoor Sensations
Business Owners
Setters
@shortgirlclimbs ,one of the most fearless women in the front range, and run her the only AAPI-Female guiding company @swingoadventure based in Northern Colorado!
Xiao Xiang (@shortgirlclimbs)
Wilson is an all around athlete in many areas, but she has really made a name for herself in the climbing industry. She's got a long list of accomplisments and qualifications, and!-- a fellow shorty. :)
Abby Wilson (@boulderclimbergirl)
Jackie is an absolute powerhouse in this industry. She's been a Flashed athlete for around 15 years. She teaches clinics, sets, and consults with the Routesetting Institute and the Climbing Wall Association. She's one of the owners/operators of the c...
Jackie Hueftle (@thegirlinlongshorts)
Imi Bagnall-Smith
(@imiclimbing)
Competetors
This feels like my obviousy #1, but Janja is seriously the greatest competition climber of all time. At 17 years old, she topped the IFSC World Cup overall standings in the Lead discipline by securing four wins in the series that season. In 2019, she...
Janja Garnbret
Outdoor Sensations
One of the few female boulderers to climb V13, and only standing at a whopping 5'3". Nina made the first female ascent of Ambrosia, a 50ft-tall V11 in the Buttermilks outside Bishop, California in what Climbing magazine called "one of the hardest fre...
Nina Williams
Ashima was the world’s youngest person to send a V10 (The Power of Silence) at age eight and a V12 (Martini Right) at age nine, the youngest to send a 5.14c at age eleven, and the world’s first female to climb a V15 (Horizon) at just fifteen. Her tit...
Ashima Shiraishi
Ok not an instagram, but can we take a second to appreciate this??? This here is a list of historical events; high grades climbed by strong people. It lists the names of the routes or boulders, who was the first of their gender to climb it, and the d...
Chronologies
Business Owners
A badass of all badasses, Sasha is a CEO, speaker, and creator of the 🧗🏼♀️ emoji. She paved (and is paving) the rock climbing and business way for women across the globe. She has been the undefeated panAmerican Champion 2004 to the present, and sh...
Sasha Diguilian
Allison's superpower is in her fingers, possessing world class weighted one arm hang numbers including holding 100lbs on a 22mm edge. Through her poetry and authenticity, she hopes to inspire the next generation, and especially women and girls, to be...
Allison Vest