2016/2017One of the most popular films at the Banff Mountain Film FestivalPeople’s Choice Award for Radical Reels
(2016, USA,
27 min)
Filmmaker:
Sender Films
Website: www.reelrocktour.com
Main Characters: Ashima Shiraishi, Kai Lightner
Supporting Characters / Voices: Chris Sharma, Meagan Martin, Robyn
Erbesfield-Raboutou
Meet the young guns of the climbing world:15-year-old Ashima and16-year-old Kai?Lightner, as the younger generation, are taking the sport of climbing to entirely new heights. Ashima, who grew up in New York, is the youngest—and first female—to successfully climb5.15aa route of that difficulty. Meanwhile, Kai from North Carolina became a national climbing champion in his sophomore year of high school.“Young Guns”follows how they learn new skills and draw lessons from their experiences as they continually push their limits to achieve even more astonishing climbing feats.
Meet the new faces of
climbing: (15-year-old Ashima Shiraishi and 16-year-old Kai
Lightner are the leaders of a new generation taking the sport to the next
level. Ashima, a New York City native, is the youngest person and the first
female to climb 5.15a. Kai, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, became a
national climbing champion as a high school sophomore. Young Guns follows these
two friends and prodigies as they spend their summer vacation in Norway, where
the legendary Flatanger cave forces them outside their comfort zone. In the
finale, Ashima travels on to Japan to set a new standard on Horizons, a fierce
30-move boulder problem at the cutting edge grade of V15.