Climbing Jargon
This is the job title of the person who creates new climbing problems on the wall.
What is a routesetter?
This climber won the most career IFSC victories and gold medals of any competition climber in history.
Who is Janja Garnbret?
This climber free soloed the building Taipei 101 in Taiwan in January 2026.
Who is Alex Honnold?
This person has records for both the most Grammy award wins won and nominations.
Who is Beyonce?
First woman appointed to the US Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
This climbing hold relies on contact strength, friction, and surface area due to its overall negativity.
What is a sloper?
This climber achieved the first ever free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan.
Who is Lynn Hill?
This famous climber is missing his left index finger.
Who is Tommy Caldwell?
According to Forbes in 2019, this person was the world’s youngest “self made” billionaire.
Who is Kylie Jenner?
This person is the bestselling novelist of all time (their works are outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare).
Who is Agatha Christie?
There are two main categories of movement in climbing. What are they?
Static and dynamic
This is the first female climber to ever climb V15 with her ascent of Horizon in 2016.
Who is Ashima Shiraishi?
This male climber won the first gold medal for climbing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Who is Alberto Gines Lopez?
The world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate (won at age 17).
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
First woman to summit Mount Everest (occurred in 1975).
Who is Junko Tabei?
The difficulty rating system used for large wall routes requiring ropes in the United States.
What is this the Yosemite Decimal System?
First female to climb 5.15a with her ascent of La Rambla in 2017.
Who is Margo Hayes?
Which climber established the fastest speed climbing record in the world at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
Who is Samuel Watson?
This is the wealthiest woman in the world (2026).
Who is Alice Walton?
The second person and first woman to obtain EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award) status (in 1977).
Who is Helen Hayes?
This type of move relies on movement generated by swinging feet, releasing the generation hold and launching in an arch, and finally landing onto a distant platform/hold on an adjacent wall.
What is a lache?
These two women hold the record for climbing Erebor, 5.15b/c (highest grade climbed by female climbers).
Who are Laura Ragora (sent in 2021) and Brooke Raboutou (sent in 2025)?
This climber is credited with first ascending one of the hardest boulder problems in the world: Return of the Sleepwalker (V17).
Who is Daniel Woods?
The first woman of color to win an Academy Award for Best Director.
Who is Chloe Zhao?
This person is considered the world’s first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?