I've always been attracted to climbs that are aesthetically pleasing.

That's like a big motivator for me.

This is Nina Williams.

Nina Williams is a professional climber, has been boldering a very high level for a very long time,

and is known for her highball

ascents.

Super quick, what's highball bouldering for those of us who don't know?

High ball bouldering is really when the line with free sowing starts to blur and there start

to be serious consequences if you were to fall off the boulder.

In the U.S., there's probably no greater concentration of classic

highball boulders than in the buttermilks just outside of Bishop, California. The boulders, they're

just, they're super impressive. They're the size of houses. They range from 20 to 50 feet tall. And people

come from all around the world to climbing the buttermilks and admire these problems.

And there's plenty of shortest problems, but a far smaller percentage of anyone ever steps up to these cutting edge climbs.

And Nina is one of them.

And when I climb on these highballs, I feel like just for a few moments, I'm in this huge, wide landscape, like this big

piece of art. And Highball and it gives me this sense of connection to the rock, to the landscape,

and it's like an expression of my own piece of art, because I'm just in this amazing vista,

basically. I like how bouldering is this super condensed version of climbing. You have to try

really, really hard for a short amount of time. And all of the details come down to these really micro-movements.

So replacing, you know, your pointer finger with your middle finger on hold or moving your foot,

one dime piece to the right makes all the difference.

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