Indoor Bouldering: Fascination and Elegance

Womens Climbing Show - Part 1 
Female Climbing Heroes 

Shauna Coxsey (GBR), Miho Nonaka (JPN) and Petra Klingler (SUI)

Sport climbing is booming. Worldwide, this fast-growing sport enthuses over 35 million people and it’s even set to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020. Year after year, new climbing gyms are built on all continents. The discipline of bouldering, which is unroped climbing above padded mats, primarily enjoys an increase in popularity, most notably among girls and young women. That’s easily explained. Climbing is a sport where men and women meet at eye level. Women have no physical disadvantage, shortness and less muscularity can be compensated by lower body weight, better flexibility and gymnastic talent. In competitions, women climb as powerfully and dynamically as men and wow the crowd with their elegance.

Three extraordinary women, all virtuosos of this sport and the heroes of an entire generation of female climbers, are presented in this film: two-time Overall World Cup Champion und current world number 1, Shauna Coxsey from Great Britain, the reigning Bouldering World Champion Petra Klingler from Switzerland, and the Runner-up World Champion and World Cup Silver Medallist 2016, Miho Nonaka from Japan.