5 May 2018

Katherine Choong aims higher in all disciplines

Choong Katherine, #2 in the 8a ranking game, has been an active competition climber since 2006 and actually she had her best year in 2017 being four times Top-16 in Lead. One reason for this was that she finished law school in 2016 and then did a four months trip to Spain and France. "After this last trip, I was in a very good shape. I realized that I really need rock climbing to be strong for the competitions. Training is very personal but for me rock climbing give me lot of endurance but more important confident and motivation. I decided to take one year off from February 2018 just for climbing. My main goals are the lead WCs but I also have some projects outside. I’m currently working on Era Vella since a little bit more than a week and I fell last weekend a few meters under the chains. I hope to finish the route until Sunday the 6th May but right now after the rain the conditions are not really good. Anyway I will try my best :) Then there is some others hard routes I really want to climb in Switzerland for example in Gimmelwald or Rawyl. I also want to do more multi pitch routes, why not try a hard multipitch route this year if I have time? But I need for sure to get more experience, I’m still a beginner."
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