Selah Schneiter (10) climbs The Nose - 950 meters

Selah Schneiter (10) has climbed the iconic 31 pitches The Nose in Yosemite in a five-day push together with her father Mike and Mark Reiger. She led a couple of pitches and cleaned about 80% of the pitches. The 132 cm tall and 27 kg says, "The hardest part was hiking to the base and hiking down. Big, heavy loads." She says there wasn’t a most fun part that it was all fun. She loved cleaning pitches, doing lower outs, spending the nights on the wall and checking out the free climbing on pitches like changing corners. Mike, who runs and owns Glenwood Climbing Guides, continues. "Selah started climbing as soon as she could walk. Even before she could walk she would be crawling and climbing on boulders. I’ve done the Nose in a day a couple times and many other walls on El Cap and elsewhere. My daughter did a lot of training in western Colorado for years including lead climbing, multi pitch, leading multi pitch and doing aid climbs and small practice big walls. She started climbing on a rope when she was 18 months. She’s always been into it and climbs a to,on our indoor home garage wall and outside with me. As a climbing guide I’ve spent a lot of time climbing with her and our other kids and have tried to teach her best practices so hence, she is incredibly competent and often more competent than other climbers who are much older. She’s pretty dialed with what she’s learned."