Chris Sharma

Chris Omprakash Sharma (born 23 April 1981) is a rock climber from the United States who has completed many of the world's most difficult first ascents. He was one of the first who managed to climb a route in difficulty 9a by the French scale, and he was the first to climb a route in the confirmed degree 9b ( Golpe de Estado ).

Childhood and youth

Chris Sharma was born in 1981 as the only child of the massage therapist Gita Jahn and Bob Sharma, janitor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Both parents are students of Yogi Baba Hari Das, who also dared and gave them the name Sharma. Even Chris' middle name Omprakash was given to him by Hari Das.

Rock climbing

Sharma grew up in Santa Cruz, California, and began at the age of twelve years with the climbing. Even at fourteen, he won the national climbing championship, with fifteen he achieved his first first ascent in the American Difficulty 5.14c ( Necessary Evil ). In the same year he was able to climb many of the hardest routes in the U.S. and took second place at the World Championships in Paris.

In 2001, Chris Sharma climb could be long -term project Realization, a route in the climbing area Céüse in France, which was then considered the hardest route in the world. The road is an extension of the climbing path Biography of Jean -Christophe Lafaille from the year 1989. There were two other climbing routes that were heavier classified, but whose trapdoor is controversial. Sharma won 2001 Bouldering World Cup in Munich, but was disqualified after he tested positive for THC.

In September 2006 he scored his most difficult project to date: a route to a constructed as a rock arch island of Mallorca, Spain, a Deep -Water Soloing - route. This means that you was without fuse, over the water, carried out. The actually nameless way as the small island named PONTAS. A repetition is still pending. Other famous routes are the Boulder The Mandala in Bishop, California, and the third ascent of also rated with 9a route La Rambla - original in Siurana crag in Spain.

In 2008, with Jumbo Love at Clark Mountain he had a further difficulty increase and then probably hardest route in the world. A little later he succeeded with Golpe de Estado Neanderthal and two other routes in the grade 9b. Golpe de Estado The route was repeated in March 2010 by Adam Ondra, who confirmed the difficulty.

In addition, Sharma succeeded in April 2011, the " First Round First Minute " ( FRFM ) after prolonged sampling, which is traded with the difficulty 9b or difficult. Said route is located in the Spanish Margalef and is in contrast to other Sharma's 9a - and 9b routes only about 13 meters long.

On March 23, 2013, the program succeeded in the first repetition of the route La Dura, Dura, which was also the first repetition of a route grade 9b ( double ).

Climbing routes

  • Necessary Evil (8c franz./5.14c ), first ascent in 1997
  • The Mandala ( V12/8a Fb ), first ascent in 1999
  • Realization (9a double ), first ascent in 2001
  • Dreamtime (8b Fb./V14 )
  • Neverending Story (8b Fb ), first ascent in 2003
  • Witness the Fitness ( V15 ), first ascent in March 2005 in The Ozarks, Arkansas.
  • Three Degress of Separation in Céüse (9a French), first ascent in 2007
  • It PONTAS (9a / 9b French), first inspection on 28 September 2006
  • La Rambla Original ( 9a double ), third party inspection on 1 December 2006
  • Papichulo (9a French), first ascent of 45m long route in Oliana, Spain
  • Jumbo Love at Clark Mountain ( 9b franz./5.15b ), first ascent on 11 September 2008
  • Golpe de Estado (9b French), first inspection on 17 December 2008 in Siurana, Northern Spain
  • Demencia senile (9a double ), Margalef (Spain ) 2009
  • French Gangster ( 8c French), Onsight
  • Neanderthal (9b French), first ascent on 18 December 2009 in Santa Linya, Catalonia (Spain )
  • First Ley (9a French), first ascent on March 2, 2010 in Margalef
  • Pachamama (9a double ), first ascent on May 29, 2010 in Oliana
  • Era Bella (9a French), first ascent, 2010 in Margalef.
  • Power inverter (9a double ), first commission in December 2010 in Oliana
  • Catxasa (9a franz./5.15a ), first ascent in January 2011 in Santa Linya
  • First Round First Minute (9b French), first ascent on April 19, 2011 in Margalef
  • Fight or Flight (9b franz./5.15b ), first ascent in May 2011 in Oliana
  • Chaxi (9a franz./5.15a ), May, 2011 Oliana
  • Duele la Realidad (9a franz./5.14d )
  • Stoking on fire (9b French), first inspection February 6, 2013 in Santa Linya
  • La Dura Dura (9b French) March 23, 2013

Filmography

Chris Sharma has worked in many different climbing videos. Among other things, he is often seen in movies the production company Big Up Productions. There are also several clips in which he climbs individual routes.

  • Masters of Stone IV; Pure Force ( 1998)
  • Free Hueco (1998, Big Up Productions ) - bouldering in Hueco Tanks, Sharma in Slash Facebook
  • Rampage (1999, Big Up Productions )
  • Inertia (2000)
  • Dosage Vol 1 (2001, Big Up Productions ) - Sharma on The Mandala and Realization
  • The Road (2003, MC Productions )
  • Pilgrimage (2003, Big Up Productions ) - bouldering in Hampi, India
  • Dosage Vol 2 (2004, Big Up Productions ) - Sharma deep-water soloing in - Mallorca, Spain
  • Best of the West (2005, MC Productions ) - bouldering in Hueco Tanks, Sharma on Esperanza
  • Dosage Vol 3 (2005, Big Up Productions ) - bouldering in the Ozarks, Arkansas, Sharma on Witness the Fitness
  • Big Game (2005, MC Productions ) - bouldering in Castle Hill, New Zealand
  • Depth Charge (2006) - deep -water- soloing in Croatia
  • King Lines (2007, Big Up Productions / Channel Films)
  • The Fanatic Search ( March 2008)
  • Dosage Vol 5 (2008, Big Up Productions ) - Sharma bolting and climbing routes in Spain
  • Progression (2009, Big Up Productions ) - Sharma sending Jumbo Love
  • Reel Rock Tour 2010 (2010, Big Up Productions & Sender Films) - " First Round First Minute "
  • Reel Rock Tour 7 (2012, Big Up Productions & Sender Films) - " La Dura Dura "
April 23 Realization (climb) La Rambla (climb) Siurana (Tarragona) Squamish (British Columbia)
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