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Beside Ondra and Sharma, we have not seen any dramatic redpoint progress since 1991!
Refusing to grade his projects, Sharma became a force for de-emphasizing numerical grades in order to focus on the intrinsic and personal challenges that climbing presents. Although this more closely allied with his Zen beliefs, it made things difficult for the climbing magazines looking to quantify his projects for an international audience.
Consider that in 2016 it's possible to be a sponsored climber simply by repeating Sharma routes. No need to discover, bolt, and send new routes of equal or greater difficulty. Sharma shaped modern rock climbing. Whatever he thought was cool, we followed. Bouldering. Projecting hard sport routes. Deep water soloing.
Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, or Kelley Slater. They're all people who changed their sports, who redefined what was possible. You've been that same kind of incredible force inside your sport.
Sharma is now the only climber in the world to have climbed multiple routes confirmed at 5.15a, beginning with his landmark send of Realization (5.15a) at Ceüse, France, in 2001.
AGES: 32 & 32 WHO THEY ARE: Rock climbers. BODY STATS: 6-foot, 161 pounds & 5-foot-2, 110 pounds
Those hands and those seemingly unnatural feats have helped make him the greatest natural rock climber in the world.
Number 11. King Lines (2007)
Number 18. Rampage (1999)
Number 6. Reel Rock 7 (2012)
1997 Paris (France) 1. François Petit FRA, 2. Chris Sharma USA, 3. François Legrand FRA
Ever since Dreamcatcher was first ascended in 2005 by Chris Sharma on the Cacodemon boulder at The Chief above Squamish in Canada, this diagonal rail of holds has rapidly evolved into one of the most iconic sport climbs in North America
... has teamed up with Chris Sharma, the California prodigy turned sport-climbing and bouldering visionary
Chris Sharma is one of the greatest sport climbers and boulderers of all time.
Three dynos and 80 feet of 5.14d climbing later, Adam Ondra clipped the chains on Three Degrees of Separation for its first repeat, eight years after Chris Sharma established the line. As the second person to climb the route, Ondra suggested a harder grade.
Chris Sharma, the 31 year old American sport climber, is perhaps the most famous rock climber in the world.
La Rambla is one of the most known 9a+ in the whole world, a real dream for generations of climbers. Together with Papichulo and Biographie, the line in Siurana forma makes the Trilogy 9a+, and it is the most repeated on the grade.
1997 - Liv Sansoz (FRA) and Chris Sharma (USA)
