BuzzFeed News interviewed Ashima Shiraishi, who just broke two world rock-climbing records, on Snapchat.
This is Ashima Shiraishi. She's one of the top female rock climbers in the world — and she's only 13.
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At 13, she is also the youngest person — male or female — to climb something so hard.
The climb is expected to be rated 5.15a, a difficulty grade that only a handful of the world's best male climbers have ever completed. The rating is awaiting consensus that will cement Ashima's climb as a world record: A handhold on the route recently broke off, making Ashima the first person to climb the more difficult route.
Only two women in history have ever even climbed the difficulty level below, 5.14d.