Ashima Shiraishi


✨ if you want to get in touch about collaborating, please use this email here 📭

based in NYC

otherwise feel free to check out a selection of things i’ve climbed, created, or done before ⬇️

🌀 ALLRISE  ↪
an experimental program in the world of DEI, in collaboration with LBR and Braindead

🖼️ OBJECTS + EXPERIENCES
  1. Iwado Zine for Arc’teryx Academy
  2. Farm to Crag Instructor
  3. Climbing Shoe: Evolv 
  4. Grandma Peabody Boulder Zine 

🪨 PROJECTS + PODIUMS
  1. Power of Silence, V10
  2. Ashimandala, V8 
  3. Martini Right, V12
  4. Crown of Aragon, V13
  5. Ciudad de Dios, 5.14d
  6. Horizon, V15
  7. Six Youth World Championships Lead + Bouldering
  8. 2017 USA Climbing Sport Open National Champion
  9. 2019 USA Climbing Bouldering Open National Champion

🖼️ WORDS + IMAGES
  1. Ashima, 2023 (Documentary)
  2. Arctery’x x BEAMS Campaign
  3. Curbed Feature, Climbing Rat Rock
  4. Glossier Campaign, 2023
  5. Smoothie King Campaign, 2023
  6. Speaker, The Convergence of Physics & Climbing 2022
  7. High Snobiety Feature, 2021
  8. Author: How to Solve a Problem, 2020
  9. Reel Rock, Obe + Ashima 2017
  10. The Wall Dancer, The New Yorker 2016
  11. Ashima’s Most Daring Climb, ESPN 2015
  12. VICE Feature, 2014
  13. TEDxTeen London Talk, 2014

A NOTE FROM ME <- -> A PARAGRAPH ON ME 

7. How to Solve a Problem, April 2020

THE RISE (AND FALLS) OF A ROCK-CLIMBING CHAMPION

By Ashima Shiraishi
Illustrated by Yao Xiao




To a rock climber, a boulder is called a “problem,” and you solve it by climbing to the top. There are twists and turns, falls and scrapes, and obstacles that seem insurmountable until you learn to see the possibilities within them. And then there is the moment of triumph, when there’s nothing above you but sky and nothing below but a goal achieved.

Ashima Shiraishi draws on her experience as a world-class climber in this story that challenges readers to tackle the problems in their own lives and rise to greater heights than they would have ever thought possible.

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