Dai Koyamada

Mountaineer

1976 –

18

Who is Dai Koyamada?

Dai Koyamada is a Japanese rock climber. He's one of the premier boulderers of his generation. He has also put up or repeated hard sport climbs.

⁕He was born on 23 August 1976 in Kagoshima and has been climbing since 1993.

⁕He is 165 cm and 58 kg.

⁕In 1996, Koyamada won the Japanese National Championship. This is the event which allowed him to become a professional rock climber.

⁕In 2000 Koyamada left the competitions, because he realized "The real nature of my climbing resides in crags".

⁕On 2001 November 27, Koyamada made the first ascent of Logical Progression in Joyama, Japan.

⁕On 2002 November 1, Koyamada repeated Hugh.

⁕On 2003 November 11, Koyamada had the first ascent of Byaku-dou in Hourai, Japan.

⁕In 2004, Koyamada journeyed to Australia and repeated every problem at the Hollow Mountain Cave in the Grampians, problems put up by Fred Nicole and Klem Loskot and some of Australia's top boulderers. He then proceeded to link-up the problems in the HMC for the first ascent of The Wheel of Life on 2004 May 12. The second ascent of the The Wheel of Life was by Chris Webb Parsons on 13 Oct 2007.

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Born
Aug 23, 1976
Kagoshima
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on July 23, 2013

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