Zhenja Kazbekova

Video portrait of Ukrainian rock climber Zhenja Kazbekova.

At times being the son or daughter of someone famous can be a burden. This doesn't seem to be the case of Zhenja Kazbekova. Zhenja simply shares the same love as her parents, the extremely talented bouldering and speed champions Natalia Perlova and Serik Kazbekov. Many remember her, as a young child, taking part in competitions coached by her mother and father. Those days are long gone and Zhenja now seems to have made her own decision to... climb. And the results are impressive. Apart from the 8a+ on-sight of Super Priapos at Kalymnos which we reported about in November 2011, the young Ukrainian also won gold in her category at the Youth World Championship 2010 as well as silver a year later. In short, the teenager seems to be heading straight to the future...