The 18 year-old Nicolai Uznik is one of Austria’s most promising young competition climbers. In September 2020, the young man from Carinthia has won the National Austrian Boulder Championship with aplomb. We make a glance behind the stages of the European Youth Cup in Graz, and become acquainted with Nicolai and his coach and get some impressions of the every-day training life of the young athletes in the national team. This is a portray of a young athlete and his motivation, frustration and anger, and about the importance of his mentor.