Chris sharma biography video theodore

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