It's so exciting, every little stage, every little bit I work out.
It's like a huge puzzle and you just got to put all the pieces together
and once they’re all together, you just gotta do it.
She had never seen the top of the climb, she had just worked it that hard and she put so much effort in it.
Climbing for climbers is an addiction, you do just want more and more
and then I get worried about how much crazier could she get?
I’m completely in awe of her. She's the one that could take women's climbing to the next level.
That's it. Nice. A bit more push.
Angie Scarth-Johnson is 13 years old.
She started climbing six years ago, and she’s been breaking records ever since.
Last year, she completed a grade 34.
And it’s only three grades below the world’s top female climber.
I just like stopped breathing I couldn't breathe...
I was like oh my god I can't believe I just got to the end of this.
Like I thought it was impossible, to do this was amazing.
You could hear the relief in her voice, you know people get up there when they do a climb
and they scream and bellow, and you know swear and yell
whereas she's - you just hear this silent, "yes".
Just while you're on the rock you can feel, your body knows the sequence
and your body knows what it feels like, and your muscles are preparing for that one move
that if you hold on and get past it then you can get to the top.
For me, climbing is mostly about mental strength and being able to just calm down
'cause it's just so exciting and so nerve-wracking
and I think a good climber would be someone that's just calm all the time
and just can get through there without going crazy.
Are you ready, dad?
It's my job to stop her from hitting the ground.
So I talk to her a lot and you know, she might say a few things back or just ignore me I guess but
we work well sometimes, or most of the time.
It's really hard, like I'm crying sometimes and my hands are bleeding and just, it is hard
and I think definitely having mum and dad there helps me a lot. And they definitely help me a lot.
I first met Angie when she was about seven years old
when her parents brought her into the local climbing gym
I think to stop her climbing the walls at home.
And then I can adjust, and come into that under cleaner.
Short person beta.
- Short person beta. - Good.
Pretty quickly, I realised that she had immense self-belief.
For a lot of climbers, it takes years of experience and a concerted effort to sort of banish that self-doubt.
But yeah, she has a strength of mind that I've rarely seen in anyone, regardless of age.
She'd climb the edges of the doors, and trees - trees were a massive one.
She was always climbing trees, constantly on the go.
I think at the age of two we found her on the other side of the pool fence. She had climbed the fence.
So I think that's the earliest climbing adventure that I remember.
Before Angie started climbing, we weren't outdoor-sy kind of people. I didn't even know climbing was a sport.
And so when she started climbing, and people you know, were telling me how amazing she was
and how good she was, at first I sort of was like hmm, you know.
There are so many more different terms like a 'gaston', I had no idea what that was.
I just thought it was the dude off Beauty and The Beast.
We're lucky enough to have learnt it together, the sport together
and just watching how she does it and yeah, it's pretty incredible.
I think her determination might have come from some really strong women in her life.
Her grandmother, her great grandmother who have lived, you know, quite hard lives
migrated young and you know, had to really work hard so I think having positive female role models
has definitely made her a determined young person.
Excellent that she's been one of the first ones,
so young to do that. Other young kids are following her.
We've been out where someone has said and out of humour
they've said, "Shouldn't you be at home playing with Barbies?"
And then Angie started climbing and she did better than him, and then someone else yelled back
and said, "Maybe you should be at home playing with Barbies, and let her do the climbing."
It's just a weird feeling when you're climbing and you get nervous 'cause you really want to get to the next part
and sometimes you just can't, and so you need to get to that point and just go for it.
Just think that you're gonna get it and you'll get it.