According to her 8a scorecard 11-year-old Brooke Raboutou has done her first 5.14b in Welcome To Tijuana at Rodellar, Spain.  This makes her the likely youngest to ever achieve such a grade and no doubt the shortest as well.  The 50-foot power endurance route Welcome to Tijuana is a popular first 5.14b as it was Brooke’s brother Shawn’s and Sasha DiGiulian’s first as well.  It only took DiGiulian 14 months to make the jump from her first 5.14b to climbing 5.14d, I wonder how long it will take Brooke??

DPM seems to have the youth beat covered pretty well these days with stories about 14 year-old Stefan Lavender climbing 5.14a in Ten Sleep, the Raboutou kids (and parents) climbing strong in France, 10 year-old Mirko Caballero climbing 5.13 at the Jailhouse and 10 year-old Cameron Hörst onsighting 5.13a at Shelf Road.