Rock

Climbing

Pioneer &

&

Legend

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Accomplishments

Realization
(01)
Witness the Fitness
(02)
Deep Water Solo
(03)
Jumbo Love
(04)
Repeat of La Dura Dura
(05)
Sharma Climbing & Sender One
(06)
The Climb
(07)
Established and completed the world’s first 5.15a (9a+), Realization / Biographie in July 2011.
First Ascent of Witness the Fitness: V15 (8C) in 2005.
Made deep water soloing famous with his ascent of Es Pontàs (15a/9a+) in Mallorca, Spain in 2007.
First ascent of Jumbo Love, the world’s first 5.15b (9b) in 2007.
First repeat of La Dura Dura, the world’s first 9b+ (5.15c) in 2013.
Built two successful climbing gym companies, Sharma Climbing and Sender One.
Co-created The Climb, a first of its kind HBO climbing competition series, with Jason Momoa.

Partners

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Notable Ascents

La Dura Dura
La Dura Dura
9b+ (5.15c)
ESP
23 March 2013
El Bon Combat
El Bon Combat
9b/+ (5.15b/c)
ESP
07 March 2015
Jumbo Love
Jumbo Love
9b(5.15cb)
USA
08 September 2008
Golpe de Estado
Golpe de Estado
9b(5.15b)
ESP
17 December 2008
First Round
First Minute
First Round
First Minute
9b+ (5.15c)
ESP
19 April 2011
Fight or Flight
Fight or Flight
9b (5.15b)
ESP
05 May 2011
Stoking the Fire
Stoking the Fire
9b (5.15b)
ESP
06 February 2013
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About Chris

Chris spends his life searching the planet for the most beautiful and difficult rock climbs, devoted to discovering and climbing singular, aesthetic and seemingly impossible routes.  This journey led Sharma to the “psicobloc” discipline, climbing ropeless over a body of water with nothing to protect you in the event of a fall.   His signature route in that style is Es Pontas, 5.15a, which climbs the underbelly of a magnificent arch in Mallorca, Spain.

Chris Sharma is one of the greatest and most influential rock climbers of all time, distinguished by his preternatural ability and visionary first ascents. He set the standard for world class climbing while pushing the sport forward via new disciplines.

Chris found climbing as a kid in Santa Cruz, California at Pacific Edge Climbing Gym and describes himself as "one of the first climbing-gym-generation kids.” From the beginning, Sharma was considered a prodigy in the climbing world.  At 14, he won the adult 1996 US Open Bouldering Nationals and one year later, he freed Boone Speed's project Necessary Evil, 5.14c, in the Virgin River Gorge, the hardest sport climb in North America at the time. Just a few years later, he went on to establish the world’s first 5.15a, Biographie, in Ceuse, France. That ascent led him to dominate sport climbing for over a decade, and he went on to establish the world’s first 5.15b, and the second-ever 5.15c during that period, as well as numerous other routes of the same grades.

Today, Chris owns several climbing gyms in both California and Spain. He also developed the first ever climbing competition series on film, a television show debuting on HBO Max in 2023, The Climb, with his childhood friend Jason Momoa.

Chris lives in Barcelona with his wife, Jimena Alarcón, and their two children.

"That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature."
-Chris Sharma