of The Mandala, a world-famous boulder problem. On 18 July 2001, aged 19, Sharma completed the extension of the route Biographie in Ceüse in France, and named it Realization; the route was the first consensus in the world, and has since become an important route in the history of sport climbing, with Climbing magazine noting that "technical rock climbing jumped in its evolution". It was the first confirmed increase in grades since Wolfgang Gullich's ascent of Action Directe , a decade earlier. Sharma's ascent of the route was captured in Josh Lowell's 2002 film, Dosage Volume 1. Days later, Sharma won the Munich leg of the IFSC World Cup in bouldering, only to be disqualified on testing positive for marijuana. 2002–2008 (to Jumbo Love) After Realization, Sharma considered quitting climbing and went on Buddhist pilgrimages. However, a trip to Mallorca, Spain to meet Miquel Riera, a pioneer of deep-water soloing, led him to "fall in love with climbing all over again". Sharma largely abandoned competitions, to focus on "King Lines", a term he adopted for iconic routes that motivated him. In 2004, Sharma solved the boulder problem Practice of the Wild , and in 2005 solved the dramatic roof of Witness the Fitness , followed by redpointing Dreamcatcher , regarded as one of North America's most iconic sport climbs. In 2006, he made an early repeat of La Rambla , and in 2007, after 50 attempts, stuck the crux dyno of Es Pontas in Mallorca, the world's first-ever DWS route. Some of Sharma's climbs from this era are in the iconic and award-winning 2007 climbing film, King Lines. In 2007, Sharma moved to Lleida, a town near the Spanish Pyrenees, in Catalonia, Spain, and over the next five years, created an unprecedented series of new to sport climbs, predominantly in Catalonian limestone crags (namely Oliana, Siurana, Santa Linya and Margalef), starting with the classic of Papichulo in May 2008. In September 2008, Sharma made a trip back to the United States and climbed the world's first-ever consensus route when he freed Randy Leavitt's bolted route, Jumbo Love in Clark Mountain in California. 2008–2013 (to La Dura Dura) Sharma said that after climbing Jumbo Love, he needed to change his approach. His previous breakthroughs had been on routes established and bolted by other climbers who had given up on them, and now he needed to find his own limit saying: "I