Jade 8B+ by Ashima Shiraishi

Ashima Shiraishi reports with a video on Insta that she has done Jade 8B+ in RMNP. "I poured my heart into this bloc over the span of a few years, and finally overcoming this one was a special moment." (c) Daniel Gajda from 2019.

During the same day the 20-year-old also did Riddles in the Park 8A+, Golden Rows of Flows 8A and Blood Money stand 7C+, the latter "the most desperate of sends."

Ashima has been one of the best female climbers since she did her first 8B at age 10. The next year she did her first 8c+. As a matter of a fact, based on her Top-5 routes and boulders being 13-years-old, she was Top-10 among the male. Then the next year, in 2016, she did the first female 8C. Since then, she has mainly focused on comps, making the finals in 8 out of 9 Lead WCs and Championships the following two years.