People 3000 8b by Kwon Ga-eun (8)

Kwon Ga-eun from South Korea started climbing systematically in her parents' gym at age six. Last year she did her first 7c and now she has done People 3000 8b in Maisan, setting a new grade record for 8-year-olds. Her father is an 8b+ climber and has been a member of the Ice climbing national team. The plan for the summer is to go to Spain says her father. "She trains in my gym four days a week, about five hours a day. Three hours of endurance training (at her spray wall), one-hour bouldering and she does campus board training and cool-down stretching for an hour. She trains in the indoor gym like this on weekdays and goes rock climbing or on outdoor lead walls on weekend." Interestingly, the record for 9-year-olds, 8b+, is also set by a girl and that goes also for the youngest boulder crusher (Ashima Shiraishi).