Nina Williams

Nina Williams born August 21 1990 is an American professional rock climber based in Boulder Colorado known primarily for her practice of highball bouldering Nina Williams was born and raised in Pawtucket Rhode Island She began rock climbing in New Hampshire in 2002 after testing ballet football and horseback riding In 2017 Nina wrote a personal essay for Rock and Ice magazine She talks about the events that occurred during her adolescence in fact she cheated by falsifying the results during a qualifying regional competition of the USA Climbing This incident earned him a ban from competitions for the season In 2016 she gave an interview to Chris Weidner in which she said that the high pressure she was under and the lack of selfconfidence had pushed her to cheat To return to competition Nina had to find a new mental approach She writes that rather than climbing for the approval of others she would climb because she loved it In 2015 she climbed her first boulder rated 8B V13 in Rocklands South Africa while achieving the first female ascent of Ray of Light Nina is known for her practice of highball bouldering which consists of climbing very high blocks without a rope thus combining the physical side of bouldering and the mental side of free soloing In 2017 she made the first female ascent of Ambrosia at Buttermilks which Climbing Magazine called the hardest free solo ever by a woman Nina also climbs two other difficult routes on the same boulder Evilution Direct 8A and Footprints 7C Achieving these three paths allows her to complete what is called the Grandpa Peabody Trifecta she is the first woman to do so In February 2018 she made the fourth ascent and first female of Window Shopper 8A V12 in Boulder Colorado7 In March 2019 she made the seventh ascent and first female of Too Big to Flail 7C V10 a highball of more than 15 meters at Buttermilks She makes an appearance in the short film The High Road 2019 selected for the Banff Mountain Film Festival and shown on the Reelrock 14 film tour The film focused on Ninas rope preparation in anticipation of climbing a highball It ends with his ascent of Too Big to Flail 7C V10 a highball over 15m at Buttermilks In 2016 she released Final Frontier a multipitch route rated 513b in Yosemite as well as Father Time 513b in 2018 Notable climbs 2015 Speed of Life V10 Farley Massachusetts 2015 Footprints V9 Bishop CA 2015 Ray of Light V13 Rocklands South Africa First female ascent 2016 Final Frontier 513b Yosemite CA10 2016 Evilution Direct V11 Bishop California First female ascent 2017 Ambrosia V11 Bishop CA First female ascent first female to complete the Grandpa Peabody trifecta 2018 Father Time 513b Yosemite CA 2018 Window Shopper V12 Boulder Colorado First female ascent 2019 Too Big To Flail V10 Bishop California Seventh ascent first female ascent