World speed wall climbing champion, Aries Susanti Rahayu, has a unique reason for pursuing the climbing speed challenge rather than the 'lead' or the 'boulder'. "When I was still in primary then middle school, I did a lot of sprinting," the 23-year-old explained to Tempo in Yogyakarta recently.

As a youngster, Aries was the champion sprinter in Grobogan Regency of Central Java. When she was in second year of middle school, her sports teacher introduce