If you ever see Maria Paula Quintero dive, you would probably think that the laws of gravity dont quite apply to her. Her journey to the water is graceful and intentional more of a dance than a fall.

She was just 16 when she dove 65 feet from a platform for the first time, and 17 when she first competed in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, making her the youngest woman in the competitions history to do so.

If you dont know much about cliff diving, you should at least know that it is about as intense as any extreme sport could get; if you dont enter the water at just the right angle at that height, youre risking a concussion, broken bones or death. And each time Quintero dives, shes got a really invested audience holding their breath. My mom is always scared but she loves this sport, Quintero says. But I am the only woman [from my community] to do it so I have a lot of people supporting me in Colombia.