KENYA-JAPAN-FREE CLIMBING-BLIND

Ashley Muthoni, 12, challenges rope climbing on the artificial climbing wall during a week-long free climbing training for visually impaired and blind students by the Japanese NPO Monkey Magic in partnarship with Kilimanjaro Blind Trust Africa (KBTA) at the indoor climbing gym BlueSky in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 15, 2018. Japanese blind free climber Koichiro Kobayashi, multiple International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Paraclimbing World Champion, founded the NPO Monkey Majic, aiming to empower visually impaired people through free climbing, after he was diagnosed proactive eye illness inheritance in 2005. He is also the one of founders of KBTA, supporting visually impaired children in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Malawi. Sports climbing has been added for 2020 Tokyo Olympic games, but it has not yet selected for Paralympic games. / AFP PHOTO / Yasuyoshi CHIBA (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)