Aljoša Grom

Aljoša Grom (16.02.1973) is one of the leading Slovenian sport climbers and international route setter. He started climbing in his home town Vrhnika in 1990. His focus was competition climbing and he won his first national title already in 1991. Since that time he conquered the national title seven times and was member of Slovenian national climbing team. He competed on all the major world cups all over the world.

In 1996 he was sixth in the world cup competition in Graz and a year later third in Imst. His third place was the first podium for Slovenia in mans competition. He finished the year 1997 on the eight place in overall standings. Aljoša finished his competing career in 2002.

His best on-sight result is 8a+ and he climbed 8c as well. Solo climbing was another passion of Aljoša. In the year 1994 he solo climbed the route Brdavs 8a+ in Retovje and in the year 1996 Sonce v oceh 8a+ in Mišja Pec. In this period he climbed over 100 routes solo in difficulty 7a to 7c+-.