The Most Talented Climber in the World?

Her body assumes a seemingly infinite variety of forms, each of a different utility.Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker The mother and father of Ashima Shiraishi, a fourteen-year-old New Yorker who has been called the most talented rock climber in the world, met in fashion school, in Tokyo, in the early seventies. Hisatoshi Shiraishi, the father, was from the southern island of Shikoku,