At the tender young age of 10 years and 7 months, Jonathan Hörst has ticked his first (and very likely not last) 5.14 with a repeat of God’s Own Stone (5.14a) in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.
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Leveraging beta from his brother Cameron who sent the route last year at age 11, Jonathan managed to repeat the route after a mere four tries spread across two days.
World records in climbing don’t really exist in this scenario because grades are such a subjective factor in our sport, but it seems likely that Jonathan is the youngest person to climb a route of this difficulty. For the sake of comparison you had Brooke Raboutou and Tito Traversa climbing their first routes graded 5.14a around 10 years and 11 months, and Adam Ondra didn’t do his first until he turned 11123.
While writing this I realized I’ve been climbing longer than Jonathan has been alive and I haven’t even sniffed 5.14a, but then again my dad had model airplanes and a ping pong table in our basement and not the dream home climbing gym that Jonathan’s father Eric has working in their basement.
- Slacker ↩
- He’s since climbed almost 400 5.
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14s ↩ - Ok, not a slacker ↩
Do we really need to count the months of age of the kids who have sent this 5.13? Honestly, it seems a bit craven for attention.
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Good for your dad . . .I’d rather have a ping pong table in the basement . . . much more fun than “training”!
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I’d take my fingerboard and some good tunes over a ping pong table “any day.”
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That’s pretty cool, it’s better the climb than waste time on video games. I would have been stoked to have a climbing wall…or a ping pong table.
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All I have to say is; “what is this next generation do to the sport of climbing?” Wow! Good job kid!
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Is there a trend happening that many of the young climbers (or their parents reporting the news) consistently take high grades? In this instance, if Daniel Woods, Adam Ondra, Jimmy Webb, Mike Doyle, etc all call this one 5.13d, it probably is. It’s also happened with many boulders in Hueco.
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I saw that. Might suck when the kids come to realize Fern Roof (or whatever else) was not their first V10. I feel like your first double digit or 5.14 is special on a personal level, even if it doesn’t matter in the long run. If the parents aren’t engrossed in the system it’s one thing, but Team ABC (for example) should know better.
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Some adults could also come to realize that Fern Roof and 10-10 are not V10 just because the guide book says they once were
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I have definitely noticed this.
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The truth is that for a growing number of people promoting youth achievements is advertising for something else. Grade inflation is going to happen when promotion is the main purpose for creating a news item. The same thing occurs when not-quite-elite-climbers-yet make up their climbing resumes and head off to the trade show. Aaron is right, one’s first V10 or 5.14 (at any age) is a meaningful personal achievement, but its way better if its accurately graded.
In the end, its very impressive to be climbing 5.13d at the age of ten, too bad that the grade inflation distracts from that achievement.
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Not sure which Horst kid I watched have a temper tantrum last summer (maybe two summers ago) at a local crag falling on a 13. Neither dad’s reaction nor kid’s behavior was inspirational.
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His dad’s book “Training for Climbing” is fanfreakin’tastic. It doesn’t surprise me that his sons are pulling down giants at such a young age. I can’t wait to see what they can do in 2020.
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Man…there seems to be some climb envy in these comments!!! Sounds like a good effort by the kid! JB
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I don’t think anyone is saying it wasn’t a good effort. The route is hard. It’s just not 14a. Anyway, 13d at ten years old is pretty damn impressive. I think it is safe to say this kid is going to climb quite a few 14’s and relatively soon. GOS just isn’t one of them.
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