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That would be OK. I might be a better rock climber, though I might also be a more reckless, dangerous rock climber.
I do improv comedy, and I'm a dancer and rock climber.
Tavassoli is a surfer and rock climber; Evans and James are cyclists.
Base jumper and rock climber Clair Marie is the definition of audacity.
Martinez started dating Grayston Leonard, a rock climber, without the help of ABC.
But Shiraishi is quite possibly the best female rock climber in the world.
"The Abominable Snowman was obviously no mean rock climber," he wrote in 1952.
An avid rock climber, Herrera started his career in the Mexican finance ministry.
"Free Solo," about a daring rock climber, took the prize for documentary feature.
Ashima Shiraishi is a seriously inspiring young woman, and a no-joke rock climber.
I have never been less surprised to find out someone was a rock climber.
Honnold, it turns out, isn't simply the most accomplished rock climber of our time.
One blind rock climber is even using it to better help him scale mountains.
A few summers ago, he hired a rock climber to ship him bags of dirt.
The film profiled rock climber Alex Honnold in his quest to scale the 3,000 ft.
Once that involved them and a few experienced rock-climber friends in an ascent with ropes.
"You don't tell a bona fide rock climber something's impossible to climb," he told Time magazine.
We met in law school, when I was a chiseled rock climber with outstanding career prospects.
Fast forward, and it's no surprise that the daredevil teenager became a full-time rock climber.
In part, this serves as savvy marketing; Mr Faber, a wiry rock-climber, is living the brand.
While his son is a rock climber in Colorado, Horne knows nothing about ropes, carabiners or cams.
Today, ReWalk's soft exoskeleton prototype looks more like something a rock climber might wear than Transformer parts.
Mr. Tompkins traveled through Patagonia in 1961, when he was 18, an adventure seeker and rock climber.
He was an avid rock climber and camper who practically "lived on a plane," Mr. Yu said.
You had a whole other career — and I believe you were a rock climber at one point?
For inspiration, Mr. Scaringe looks to Alex Honnold, a rock climber who scaled Yosemite's El Capitan without equipment.
Patagonia got its start when a rock climber made his own hand-forged gear and began selling it.
Alain Robert, also known as the "French Spider-Man," is a rock climber and urban climber from Bourgogne, France.
One of the most intriguing characters in your book is a rock climber turned MIT researcher named Hugh Herr.
Dr. Jasey said Detective Veve's injury was similar to what a rock climber might suffer after a violent fall.
It didn't take long for news of rock climber Alex Honnold's ascent of El Capitan to burn through the internet.
Or if you're a rock climber, you might find that stretching your hips makes some movements easier on the wall.
He, like his father before him, was an experienced rock climber who had scaled Comb Needle at least once before.
Each goes from rock climber to couch potato, from rebel to middle manager, and from sex crazed to sleep obsessed.
Emily is a professional rock climber and has been a part of the climbing community since she was a teenager.
If you're a private pilot or a rock climber, the legend goes, then surely you can handle lots of investment risk.
The film follows professional rock climber Honnold's journey to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 ft.
Ginsburg beat out some major competition, including rock climber Alex Honnold, comedian Hannah Gadsby, wrestler Roman Reigns and tennis superstar Serena Williams.
The bride, 46, is a professional rock climber, BASE jumper and wingsuit flyer, as well as a blogger, author and public speaker.
Watch: "Free Solo," the Oscar-winning documentary about the rock climber Alex Honnold, is among our small-screen recommendations for the weekend.
The types of climbing you would generally be strong at as a rock climber, you don't need those same strengths when you're competing.
"Free Solo" provides a window into the world and mind of Alex Honnold, perhaps the best free solo rock climber to ever live.
The last rockfall-fatality in Yosemite happened 18 years ago when a rock climber, Peter Terbush, was killed by a rockfall from Glacier Point.
In the series, Sanderson reimagines the 12 signs of the Zodiac as muscular outdoorsmen, including a rock climber, a forest guide, and a fisherman.
The magazine reports that stars Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender, along with legendary rock climber Chris Sharma, were also guests at the small ceremony.
Then he watched a video of Alex Honnold, the free-solo rock climber, who lives in a customized van and travels from mountain to mountain.
It follows Alex Honnold—described by a rock climber friend of mine as "a nut"—on his quest to climb Yosemite's El Capitan cliff face.
Now nearing arrival and preparing to descend, you the rock climber have spent one or perhaps many pitches nervously and with absolute deliberation warring against gravity.
Before Title IX, "girls were encouraged to have pompoms and be cheerleaders for their brothers' baseball or football teams," said Lynn Hill, a pioneering rock climber.
Professional rock climber Emily Harrington says she is "banged up" but without serious injury after falling during a recent climb of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan.
In 2015, Dean Potter, a top rock climber, was killed along with two other men in a BASE-jumping accident at Yosemite National Park in California.
A 30-year-old rock climber who lives in Salt Lake City, Mr. Tallent was waiting tables when he sold the novel to Riverhead in 2015.
Rock-climber Alex Honnold really scaled Yosemite's towering El Capitan formation without ropes, while his friends watched from down below and his girlfriend waited nervously at home.
Mountaineer and rock climber Stefan Barthel was recently clearing a new climbing path in Spain, when he made the mistake of grabbing onto a slightly loose rock.
When your identity is linked to your hobby — you're a yogi, a surfer, a rock climber — you'd better be good at it, or else who are you?
In October, rock climber Alex Honnold, open water swimmer Diana Nyad, high wire walker Philippe Petit, and BASE jumper Roberta Mancino gathered to discuss their extreme adventures.
For many years, Abby had been somewhat overweight and out of shape, but after she moved to Colorado, in 2014, she became a frequent hiker and rock climber.
Mr. Reed is an accomplished rock climber who is known in climbing circles as a first ascensionist — someone who develops new lines, or routes, up a particular destination.
"I don't think I could be the mom that I want to be without climbing in my life," continues Jackie, who, alongside being a parent, is a rock climber.
Also on the first floor, we found the sleeping bag used by rock climber Emily Harrington after especially challenging conditions rendered her immobile on the face of a mountain overnight.
Meanwhile, the male granola rock climber who sat next to me in English class was routinely free to wear his shirt entirely unbuttoned, flapping in the wind, revealing his chest.
So it was an easy decision to join a group of friends going to hear Mr. Butler moderate a talk with the well-known rock climber Tommy Caldwell at a local Patagonia store.
" When he was younger, he was an avid rock climber, though he qualifies this with self-deprecation: "I was very bad at it, but I was quite bold, and that's a bad combination.
Being a rock climber who loves to push myself on more physically challenging terrain most of the year, long Himalayan expeditions have essentially crippled my climbing strength for up to six months before.
Tom Frost, a renowned rock climber who made daring first ascents up the towering El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and designed climbing hardware to protect rock from being gouged and scarred, died on Aug.
The mother and father of Ashima Shiraishi, a fourteen-year-old New Yorker who has been called the most talented rock climber in the world, met in fashion school, in Tokyo, in the early seventies.
In the 2100 years prior, its founder, Yvon Chouinard, an accomplished rock climber, had gone from selling hand-forged mountain climbing gear to the largest supplier of climbing hardware in the US. The year was 1973.
If a formation like this existed in the U.S., every rock climber in the country would almost certainly flock to it—but in Mexico, mining interests, cartel activity, and dodgy political agendas have stood in the way.
Ungrudgingly admired by seasoned dirtbags and muscular young rock rats, she is, even though still young, perhaps the first female climber whose accomplishments may transcend gender, and the first rock climber who could become a household name.
Films include: "The River and the Wall" (environment at the southern border); "The Human Element"  (climate change); "Free Solo" (Oscar-winning documentary about rock climber Alex Honnold) and "Return to Mount Kennedy" (the 1960s climb by former Sen.
Photograph by Grant Cornett for The New Yorker Traditionally, it has been the graying tycoons of technology who funded aging research, hoping to disrupt the three-act structure of the Silicon Valley journey: life hacker, rock climber, cadaver.
If you are a pilot, rock climber, skydiver, race car driver, use recreational drugs, or engage in any activity that involves jumping off of high places or diving deep underwater, you could wind up with a bigger life insurance bill.
Our father had been an accomplished rock climber back in Korea, and after my sister took to it at a young age, they shared in the enthusiastic technical lingo of pitches, falls and gear that makes climbers such tedious company.
Today, Caldwell is a legendary rock climber: He's the rock-climbing ambassador to Patagonia, and in 2015 he stunned a global audience after successfully climbing El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park, a 3,000-foot vertical wall of rock, with a partner.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A car accident seven years ago stripped professional Hong Kong rock climber Lai Chi-wai of his ability to walk, but this did not stop him climbing up a mountain that is roughly the height of New York's Empire State Building.
Tommy Caldwell, arguably the greatest all-around rock climber alive, told me that the conversation only drifted into half-seriousness once Honnold came along, and that Honnold's successful climb was easily the most significant event in the sport in all of Caldwell's 38 years.
The real miracle may be that a little girl from the unmountainous island of Manhattan, born to insular, artistic immigrants who had never tied a figure-eight knot, became, by the age of fourteen, possibly the best female rock climber ever—a Gretzky of the granite.
I fell in love with a 19-year-old rock climber, married a 20-year-old animal lover, started a family with a 24-year-old mother, then built a farm with a 25-year-old homemaker, and today I'm married to a 27-year-old woman of wisdom.
Rick Weber — a 75-year-old retired engineer, and active rock climber certified by American Mountain Guide Association as a Single Pitch Instructor — writes that he has built a replica of an 18-foot tall section of steel border wall and has invited rock climbers to compete in the climb on Oct.
" To that effect, she lists a variety of her other accomplishments in life: "I am a mother, wife, daughter, marathon runner, mountain climber (summited 2 of the 7 summits), rock climber, photographer, artist, immigrant, Ph.D. in Linguistics, President of the Columbia School Linguistic Society, Certified Sommelier, founder of LBV, female entrepreneur, designer, and fluent in 5 languages.
A rock climber plans to hold a border wall climbing competition after President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE recently declared a new section of his border wall with Mexico "impossible to climb," according to a new report from climbing magazine Rock and Ice.
Winifred Ellen Davies, later Mrs. George D. Abraham (died 1939) was an English schoolteacher and rock climber.'Noted woman rock climber dead', The Manchester Guardian, 26 May 1939.
Rannveig Aamodt (born 3 January 1984 in Molde, Norway) is a Norwegian rock climber.
Hugh Herr (born October 25, 1964) is an American rock climber, engineer, and biophysicist.
Beverly Johnson (22 April 1947 – 3 April 1994) was a pioneering rock climber and adventurer.
Ethan Pringle (born May 30, 1986 in San Francisco, California) is an American rock climber.
Simon Nadin (born 1965) is a British world cup-winning rock climber and professional photographer.
Brian Pinder Kellett (15 May 1914 – September 1944) was a British rock climber. The memorial to British rock climber Brian Pinder Kellett (1914–1944) and his parents, in Glen Nevis (Highland Scotland). Over the last two years of his life Kellett pioneered many new routes on Ben Nevis.
Hoburg is an avid rock climber, mountaineer, and pilot, and has previously worked with Yosemite search and rescue.
Timmy O'Neill (born 1969) is an American professional rock climber, guide, and comedian.Abbey Smith. Timmy O'Neill . Climbing Magazine.
Allen Steck (born 1926) is an American mountaineer and rock climber. He is a native of Oakland, California.
John Salathé (June 14, 1899 – 1993) was an American pioneering rock climber, blacksmith, and the inventor of the modern piton.
She won the state 800 meter championship her Junior year. In March 2017, Morgan married professional rock climber Shane Messer.
Romolo Nottaris (born July 9, 1946 in Lugano, Switzerland) is a Swiss rock climber, mountaineer and author of documentary films.
John Long (born July 21, 1953) is an American rock climber and author. His stories have been translated into many languages.
Mark Wilford (born January 27, 1959, Boulder, Colorado) is an American rock climber and alpinist known for his bold, traditional style.
Thorn is also shown to be an expert rock- climber, climbing an unfinished elevator shaft without any assistance towards the film's end.
Allemeier, his wife Meredith and their two sons live in Calgary, Alberta. He is an avid rock-climber, mountain- biker and skier.
A forward commentary on Tom Higgins and these climbs is provided by California rock climber Royal Robbins, rock climbing editor for Summit.
Ari Schneider is an American journalist and rock climber known for his articles about outdoor sports, adventure, politics, social issues, culture, and other topics.
Jim Perrin in North Wales in 1984, photo: Pat Ament Jim Perrin (born 30 March 1947) is an English rock climber and travel writer.
Philip "Jimmy" Jewell (1953 – 31 October 1987) was a British rock climber who was active during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a solo climber.
Geoff Weigand (born 1964 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australia rock climber and road cyclist (during a year-long break from climbing due to elbow tendonitits).
Andrew Palmer is an American rock climber. In October 2013, he became one of ten American climbers to climb the grade of when he repeated Jaws II.
Glen Dawson in the Sierra Nevada in 1931 Glen Dawson (June 3, 1912 – March 22, 2016) was an American rock climber, mountaineer, antiquarian bookseller, publisher and environmentalist.
Lisa Rands (born October 21, 1975) is an American rock climber. She is known for her bouldering, competition wins, and ascents of highball boulders and gritstone routes.
Sachi Amma (born September 23, 1989) is a Japanese professional Rock climber and Sport climber. He won the IFSC Climbing World Cup twice, in 2012 and 2013.
Peter Reginald James Harding (30 December 1924 – 24 October 2007) was a British rock climber who was prominent in the sport during the period following World War II.
Magnus Rognan Midtbø (born 18 September 1988) is a Norwegian rock climber and YouTube video blogger. He was born in Bergen. He retired from competitive climbing in 2017.
Josune Bereziartu, also known as Josune Bereciartu Urruzola (born January 19, 1972) is a Spanish rock climber. She is known for being the first woman to climb , , and routes.
Shauna Coxsey (born 27 January 1993) is an English professional rock climber. She is Britain's most successful climber, having won the IFSC Bouldering World Cup Season in 2016 and 2017.
Domen Škofic, 2015 Domen Škofic (born April 11, 1994 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian sport climber and rock climber. In 2016, he won the IFSC Climbing World Cup in Lead climbing.
Following his graduation from Harvard, Keller spent 2.5 months at BCG in their San Francisco office before quitting to live out of his van and become a professional rock climber. Keller grew up rock climbing and quickly found professional success in the sport. As a professional rock climber he was ranked in the top 10 in sport climbing. He has scaled alpine cliffs in France, underwater caves in Kentucky and the limestone towers of Yangshuo, China.
Sandy Smith (born 2 August 1983) is a Scottish visual artist based in New York City. He is the younger brother of professional Rock Climber Malcolm Smith and experimental evolutionary linguist Kenny Smith.
Friedrich Wolfgang Beckey (14 January 1923 – 30 October 2017), known as Fred Beckey, was an American rock climber, mountaineer and author, who made hundreds of first ascents, more than any other North American climber.
Sean McColl (born 3 September 1987) is a professional rock climber from North Vancouver, Canada. He competes in the lead climbing, speed climbing, and bouldering disciplines, and has won major competitions in all three.
Angela "Angie" Payne (born November 11, 1984) is an American rock climber who in 2010 became the first woman to climb grade , The Automator at Lower Chaos Canyon in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
François Petit (born March 27, 1975) is a French professional sport climber and rock climber, known for winning the Lead Climbing World Championship in 1997 and the Lead Climbing World Cup in 1995 and 1999.
At the time, their 19-day ascent was considered by some as the hardest successful rock climb in history. In 2015, National Geographic called Caldwell "arguably the best all-around rock climber on the planet".
Mark Synnott is an American professional rock climber and author. He is an internationally certified mountain guide and member of The North Face athlete team. Synnott specializes in remote first ascents of big wall climbs.
Andrea Hah is an Australian rock climber based in Blue Mountains, known for being the first Australian woman to climb grade 33 with her ascent of Tiger Cat, and her appearance on Australian Ninja Warrior.
Tomáš Mrázek (born August 24, 1982, in Brno) is a professional Czech rock climber specializing in lead climbing competitions. He won two World Championships, in 2003 and 2005, and one Lead World Cup, in 2004.
Watkinson had been an active rock climber in his younger days. He married Vera (Peggy) Langmead in 1939 and they had two daughters. Lord Watkinson died in December 1995, aged 85, and the viscountcy became extinct.
Buford is a graduate of Auburn University. An avid rock climber, he participated in the show American Ninja Warrior in 2017 (Daytona Beach) and 2018 (Philadelphia), but was eliminated on the third obstacle in both attempts.
Jason "Singer" Smith is a professional American rock climber. In 2000, Islamic guerrilla fighters kidnapped mountain climbers Beth Rodden, Tommy Caldwell, Jason "Singer" Smith, and John Dickey in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan during a mountain expedition.
Dwight Bishop (July 30, 1955–July 16, 2004) was an American rock climber. Known for his technical skill as a climber and guide, he died from a fall while free solo climbing in the Teton Range.
Rekha was born in Chitradurga and was brought up in Bangalore as well. She completed her Bachelors in Business Management from Maharani's College, Bangalore was a National Player in Rowing, Kayaking,Fencing.Also a certified Mountaineer, Rock climber.
Jernej Kruder at the Bouldering World Cup in Munich, 2017 Jernej Kruder (born on December 5, 1990) is a Slovenian boulderer, sport climber and rock climber. In 2018, he won the IFSC Climbing World Cup in bouldering.
Chris Sharma climbing in Yangshuo, China Chris Omprakash Sharma (born April 23, 1981) is an American rock climber. In 2007, NPR wrote that Sharma was considered the world's best rock climber. He is known for being the world's first climber to redpoint a route (Jumbo love, 2008) and the second to climb a and a route (respectively, Realization in 2001 and La Dura Dura in 2013). He is also known for climbing the world's first and deep-water solo routes (Es Pontàs in 2007 and Alasha in 2017).
Alizée Dufraisse (born 13 June 1987 in Pessac, France) is a French professional rock climber. She lives in Aix-en-Provence. She has been climbing since the age of seven. In 2003, she first climbed the grade of .
Blaque made a cameo appearance in the music video for Jermaine Dupri's single "Welcome to Atlanta" (2002). In the same year, Reed's song "Rock Climber" was featured on the compilation album Dragonfly Presents a Better Life Through Chemistry.
Yvon Chouinard with equipment for rock climbing, including Hexentrics. Photo by Tom Frost. Yvon Chouinard (born November 9, 1938) is an American rock climber, environmentalist, and outdoor industry billionaire businessman. His company, Patagonia, is known for its environmental focus.
Ted was an avid rock climber, later in Scotland discovering what would become his passion till he died, winter climbing. He was a BASI and Joint Service ski instructor in Alpine and Nordic disciplines and a hang glider pilot.
Natalie Duran is a professional rock climber and fitness model. She first appeared on obstacle course show American Ninja Warrior in 2012 and competed again in 2016, becoming one of the first women to advance to the Los Angeles finals.
Johnny Dawes Johnny Dawes (born 9 May 1964) is a British rock climber. He is famous for his dynamic style and often very bold ascents. His influence on British climbing was at its peak in the mid to late-1980s.
Isabelle Patissier (born March 1, 1967) is a French world champion rock climber and more recently a rally driver. She is known for winning two Lead Climbing World Cups (1990, 1991) and for being the first woman to climb an route.
Owen Glynne Jones (2 November 1867 – 28 August 1899) was a Welsh rock-climber and mountaineer. He established many new routes in the Lake District and elsewhere, often climbing with George and Ashley Abraham, brothers who photographed the climbs for posterity.
Muriel Sarkany (born August 5, 1974) is a Belgian professional rock climber. She is known for winning five Climbing World Cups. She also climbs outdoors, and was the fourth female climber in history to climb a route (Punt-X, Gorges du Loup, FRA).
Jakob Schubert (born December 31, 1990) is an Austrian professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. He is a World Champion (2012, 2018) and World Cup winner (2011, 2014, 2018) in Lead climbing, and his highest redpointed grade on rock is 9b+.
Jane Inglis Clark (centre of the doorway) with Ladies Scottish Climbing Club in 1909 Jane Inglis Clark (1859/1860–1950) was a Scottish mountaineer and rock climber. She co-founded the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club with Lucy Smith and Mabel Clark in 1908.
Ron Fawcett (born 6 May 1955) is an English rock climber. He is noted for being amongst the outstanding rock climbers of the 1970s and 1980s, and for being one of the first professional rock climbers.BMC notice, bmc.org. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
Dmitri Sarafutdinov (; born 16 September 1986 in Korkino), also known as Dmitrii Sharafutdinov, is a professional Russian rock climber specializing in bouldering climbing competitions. He has won three World Championships, in 2007, 2011 and 2012 and one Bouldering World Cup in 2013.
John David Reppy (born February 16, 1931) is a physicist who studies the quantum properties of superfluids at Cornell University. He is also a notable rock climber of long standing, who established a number of widely known climbing routes particularly in the northeastern United States.
Tom Higgins, Yosemite Valley, 1968 Thomas John Higgins (November 7, 1944 – March 21, 2018) was an American rock climber with many first and first free ascents primarily in the western United States. He was noted for pushing standards using a purist, free climbing style.
Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza (born September 7, 1980), best known as Patxi Usobiaga, is a Spanish professional rock climber, sports climber and boulderer. He is known for winning two Lead Climbing World Cups in a row, and for being the first climber who onsighted an route.
John Bachar (March 23, 1957 – July 5, 2009) was an American rock climber. Noted for his skill at free soloing, he died during a free solo climb. A fitness fanatic, he was the creator of the climbing training device known as the Bachar ladder.
Ron James MBE is a British mountaineer, rock climber, and writer who is a co- founder of the Ogwen Cottage Mountain School in Snowdonia, North Wales in the UK. James was an accomplished rock climber with over 40 first ascents in North Wales. Many of these routes became classics, including Grey Arete, Glyder Fawr, Meshach and The Plum at Tremadog. In the Alps his favourite area was the Dolomites, which he visited every year for 40 years. James is a qualified IFMGA (International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations) Mountain Guide (Honoured, Retired) and has served as President of the British Association of Mountain Guides.
Rockhall Cottage, the Don Whillans Memorial Hut at the Roaches Donald Desbrow Whillans (18 May 1933 – 4 August 1985) was an English rock climber and mountaineer. He climbed with Joe Brown and Chris Bonington on many new routes, and was considered the technical equal of both.
John Bragg is an American rock climber and alpinist, noted for first ascents of difficult rock climbs in the Shawangunks and Colorado, and taking high grade rock skills to Patagonia, to make the first ascent of Torre Egger in 1976 with Jim Donini and Jay Wilson.
The now highest Carstensz Pyramid summit was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer with three other expedition members – the New Zealand mountaineer Philip Temple, the Australian rock climber Russell Kippax, and the Dutch patrol officer Albertus (Bert) Huizenga.
Julia Chanourdie (born 25 June 1996) is a French professional rock climber. She is mainly active in lead climbing competitions. She also climbs outdoor, with outstanding results. In May 2020, she became the fourth women to climb by completing the route Super Crackinette in Saint-Léger-du-Ventoux, France.
The Nose route on El Capitan in 1961. Tom Frost (June 30, 1936 – August 24, 2018) was an American rock climber known for big wall climbing first ascents in Yosemite Valley. He was also a photographer and climbing equipment manufacturer. Frost was born in Hollywood, California and died in Oakdale, California.
Marc-André Leclerc (October 10, 1992 – March 5, 2018) was a Canadian rock climber and alpinist. Known for his solo ascents of numerous mountains in various parts of the world, he completed the first winter solo ascents of the Torre Egger in Patagonia, and the Emperor Face of Mount Robson.
Jim Donini (born July 23, 1943) is an American rock climber and alpinist, noted for a long history of cutting-edge climbs in Alaska and Patagonia. He was president of the American Alpine Club from 2006 to 2009, and a 1999 recipient of the AAC's Robert and Miriam Underhill Award.
Pierluigi Bini is a Roman rock-climber who, in the early 1980s revolutionized rock climbing especially in central Italy. He was known for his climbs on the walls of the Gran Sasso and especially for his climb on the "dihedral of Mephisto" on the east face of Corno Grande (The Paretone).
In 2009 Krasa opened Hardcore Nepal Extreme Adventures in Kathmandu, Nepal. She went to Nepal to work on a documentary about "kamlaris," Nepali girls who are indentured servants. There she met and married Ramesh BK, an extreme kayaker, rock climber, and Himalayan guide. Together they opened Hardcore Nepal (P.) Ltd.
Brinton was born to Mary Mies and Robert K. Brinton, a chemist and rock climber. Her sisters, Laurel J. Brinton and Donna M. Brinton, are both linguists.Allen, Thomas L., Raymond M. Keefer, Charles P. Nash, and David H. Volman. “University of California: In Memoriam, 1998. Robert Kenneth Brinton, Chemistry: Davis”.
Brooke Raboutou (born April 9, 2001) is a rock climber. At age 9, Brooke ticked a V10 and became the youngest female to climb a 5.13b. At 10, she sent a V11 and became the youngest female to climb 5.13d. At 11, she became the youngest female to send 5.14b. .
Christian Core (born 5 October 1974) is an Italian professional sport climber and rock climber. He is known for being the first person in the world to climb an boulder, in 2008. He won the Bouldering World Cup twice, in 1999 and 2002 and a Bouldering World Championship in 2003.
Liv Sansoz (born 12 February 1977) is a French professional rock climber, ice climber, base jumper. She is known for being three times World Cup winner and twice World Champion in Lead climbing. She had a year off after a fall but returned and climbed every Alp over 4,000 metres.
Orthocrats TraumaCad was founded as a result of patient-doctor relationship between a young rock climber and an orthopedic surgeon. OrthoView was founded in 2003 by Adrian Dwyer, Peter Quinn, and John Chambers as well as an orthopaedic surgeon Grant Shaw of Southampton. It has been acquired by Materialise NV in 2014.
Michael Kennedy is an American rock climber, alpinist, photographer, writer and editor. From 1974 to 1998 he was the editor of Climbing magazine, an American climbing magazine. In March 2009, he took the position of Editor-in- Chief of Alpinist magazine. His son Hayden Kennedy, also a renowned climber, died in October 2017.
Alexandra "Alex" Johnson (born April 3, 1989) is an American rock climber who has made numerous first female ascents, including Clear Blue Skies in Colorado, and Book of Nightmares and Lethal Design in Red Rocks. She is a five-time United States national champion and two-time Bouldering World Cup gold medalist.
Donald Kenneth Morrison (19 March 1929 – 21 June 1977) was a British climber and mountaineer. Morrison first became known as a pioneer rock climber in Canada, then in England's Peak District and he led three expeditions to the Himalayas. He died in 1977 leading an attempt on Latok II peak in the Karakoram.
Margo Hayes (born February 11 1998) is an American professional rock climber from Boulder, Colorado. She is known for being the first woman to climb a route graded (La Rambla, in Siurana, Spain). In 2016, she won both the Bouldering and Lead Climbing events at the World Youth Championships in Guangzhou (China).
In 1916 he married Dorothy Laxton (née Jotham) (died 1955).Register of Births, Marriages & Deaths, Dec Qtr 1916 They had a daughter, Margaret (b 1917) and two sons, Warren (b 1920) and Geoffrey (b 1923). Warren was a pilot who was killed in action in 1940. He was a strong swimmer and keen rock climber.
Derek Hersey (right) and friends making PBJ sandwiches, Yosemite Valley, California Hersey's business card Hersey bouldering in Zion Derek Geoffrey Hersey (26 October 1956 – 28 May 1993) (Gives Hersey's date of death incorrectly as 20 May 1993.) was a British rock climber and for many years an active participant in the Boulder, Colorado climbing scene.
Fred Nicole (born May 21, 1970) is a Swiss rock climber, notable for his numerous first ascents. In 1996, he made the first ascent of Radja, in Switzerland, considered the first in history. From 2002, he first climbed several boulders, like Terremer at Hueco Tanks, in 2006, and Le Boa in Switzerland, in 2011.
Hulot was in a relationship with Dominique Cantien, the TF1 director. Hulot married world champion rock-climber Isabelle Patissier in Saint-Malo on 2 September 1993. Hulot and Patissier divorced on 9 April 1996. Hulot remarried in Viens on 2 October 2002 to Florence Lasserre, a former municipal councillor and mother to his two sons.
519x519px Jesse Guthrie (born October 23, 1958) is an American rock climber and author. He is one of the pioneers of sport climbing in the USA. In 1986 he climbed the first 5.13 routes in Alabama and one of the first 5.14a routes in the USA. He also wrote 4 novels and an autobiography.
Memorial to Miroslav "Míra" Šmíd Miroslav Šmíd, Ing. (1952, Police nad Metují, Czechoslovakia – 11 September 1993, Lost Arrow, Yosemite National Park, USA) was a Czech rock climber, solo climber, mountaineer, mountain cinematographer and photographer. He also organized climbing and cultural events. In 1981 he founded The International Festival of Mountaineering Films () in Teplice nad Metují.
Rab Carrington (born 1947 in Glasgow) began climbing while studying at the University of Glasgow and became a leading British rock climber and mountaineer in the late 1960s and 1970s, taking on expeditions in the Alps and Himalayas amongst others.That's Me: Rab Carrington The British Mountaineering Council. 4 March 2006. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
Kilian Fischhuber (born August 1, 1983) is a professional Austrian sport climber and rock climber. He participated in bouldering and lead climbing competitions. From 2005 to 2011, he won five Bouldering World Cups. No other male climber was ever able to win it more than three times, or win it three times in a row.
Mainetti is also a practicing rock climber and conceptual photographer, using ethical minded art and wellness activities in continuation of her background as a sustainable developer. She commonly uses the term “History Buffer” as a means to describe her various interests in joining history with her goals of forging paths for an environmentally conscious future.
Maja Vidmar (born December 30, 1985) is a Slovenian rock climber and sport climber, known for winning the 2007 Lead Climbing World Championship. She started competing in 2000, at the age of 15, and retired from international competitions at the age of 29, after participating in the 2014 Lead Climbing World Championship and 2014 Lead Climbing World Cup.
In this paper, Distler and Garibaldi offer a proof that it is impossible to embed all three generations of fermions in E8, or to obtain even the one-generation Standard Model. In a press release from his university, "Rock climber takes on surfer's theory", Garibaldi states that his article with Distler is a rebuttal of Lisi's theory.
Stefan Glowacz (born March 22, 1965 in Tittmoning) is a professional rock climber and adventurer. He started climbing at the age of 12 and advanced to one of the world's best sports climbers only few years later. Since 1993 he has been devoted to natural challenges such as expeditions to remote places in Canada, Patagonia and Antarctica.
Amy Joy Wroe Bechtel (August 4, 1972 – disappeared July 24, 1997; declared legally dead 2004) is an American woman who disappeared while jogging in the Wind River Mountains approximately south of Lander, Wyoming. Despite extensive investigative work and media portrayals, her case remains unsolved . She was declared dead in absentia by her husband, rock climber Steve Bechtel, in 2004.
Oscar Eckenstein in the 1890s Oscar Johannes Ludwig Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 8 April 1921) was an English rock climber and mountaineer, and a pioneer in the sport of bouldering. Inventor of the modern crampon, he was an innovator in climbing technique and mountaineering equipment, and the leader of the first serious expedition to attempt to climb K2.
Alexey Rubtsov (born 5 August 1988 in Moscow, Russia) is a professional rock climber. He has participated in the bouldering competitions and won the world climbing championships in bouldering in 2009. He won the 9th edition of the Melloblocco competition in 2012. He ranked third at the 2017 World Games in Wrocław, Poland in the men's boulder event.
One of Barber's specialties was doing the first free ascent of established aid climbs. Barber was a prolific soloist, specializing in on-sight solo ascents. In 1973, Barber soloed the Steck- Salathé Route on Sentinel Rock in Yosemite National Park. The solo ascent, done on-sight in 2½ hours, first brought Barber to prominence as a leading rock climber.
Farnaz Esmaeilzadeh (, born 29 َApril 1988) is an Iranian speed climber from Borujerd. In 2015 she won gold medal in Canadian national championship and placed seventh in IFSC Climbing World Cup overall rankings. Iranian female rock climber Farnaz Esmaeilzadeh received a silver medal in the 2016 climbing Escalade Canada (CEC) National Speed climbing Championships in Central Saanich, Canada.
Oriane Bertone (born March 10, 2005 in Nice) is a French rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. In 2018, when she was 12 years old, Bertone became the youngest climber to send a boulder problem. In 2019 she started competing in international youth sport climbing events where she won multiple gold medals in both lead climbing and bouldering.
Oliver Perry-Smith (right), 1907 Oliver Perry-Smith (October 11, 1884 in Philadelphia – 13 May 1969Proceedings of the Club: Secretary report for the year 1969, AAJ 1970, pp. 224, lines 6-8 (for pdf version, see External links)) was an American rock climber, mountaineer and skier who moved to Dresden in 1902 to attend a technical university.
Mansour Aghaei (, born August 4, 1987 in Tabriz, Iran) is an Iranian professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing and bouldering who is currently in charge of the Iran national climbing team. He also has been teaching physical education in the University of Tabriz since 2012. In 2002 Aghaei came second in Asian Youth Championships in Malaysia.
Caldwell grew up in Loveland, Colorado. His father is Mike Caldwell, a former teacher, professional body builder, mountain guide and rock climber, who introduced Tommy to rock climbing at a young age. His mother, Terry, was also a mountain guide. The family, including Tommy's sister, went on annual trips to Yosemite National Park where Tommy's love for the park and rock climbing flourished.
Bob Bates was a friend of Houston's and a fellow student at Harvard – he had twice been mountaineering in Alaska. Richard Burdsall had successfully climbed Mount Gongga in Sichuan, China. Bill House had been with Wiessner on the first ascent of Mount Waddington in British Columbia. Paul Petzoldt was a very experienced mountain guide and rock climber in Wyoming's Tetons.
Cathy O'Dowd (born 1968) is a South African rock climber, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both south (25 May 1996) and north sides (29 May 1999). O’Dowd grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and attended St. Andrew's School for Girls. She has climbed since her university days.
Jammwal is a rock climber. Jammwal visited the Shaolin Temple in China in 2013. His visit was meant to honour Bodhidharma, an Indian Buddhist monk who is credited with teaching Indian combat forms and exercises to China, from which kung fu was then born. Jammwal is also believed to have spent a week taking part in martial arts training at the temple.
Brette Harrington (born 1992) is an American professional rock climber and alpinist based in Lake Tahoe, California and British Columbia, Canada. She is best known for the first free solo of 2,500-foot Chiaro di Luna (5.11a) in Patagonia, for her development of new alpine climbing routes and as the star of Brette, a Reel Rock Film Tour short film.
Paul David Robinson (born August 28, 1987) is an American professional rock climber who specializes in bouldering. He has established and repeated several bouldering problems at the V15 difficulty rating, in such areas as Hueco Tanks, the Buttermilks, and Magic Wood. In 2007, Robinson became the second climber in history to successfully climb a V13 boulder problem in one attempt.
Portmoina Cove with Commando Ridge on the mainland behind the island. Arthur Westlake Andrews (12 December 1868 - 22 November 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, mountaineer and amateur tennis and badminton player. He trained as a geographer (FRGS 1896), and became a teacher of geography and history in Southwark. In 1913 he published "a text-book of geography", reprinted in 1922.
A child climbs a tree. Professional arborists have been climbing trees since the late 19th century in the UK and North America.Memory Lane - A History of ISA Tree climbing as an organized recreational activity using modern climbing equipment emerged in the early 1980s in USA. In 1983, Peter "Treeman" Jenkins, an active arborist and retired rock climber, founded Tree Climbers International, Inc.
Leo Houlding (born 28 July 1980) is a British rock climber. At the age of 18 Houlding became the first Briton to free climb El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley, and has gone on to climb many of its toughest lines. Houlding began rock climbing at the age of 10. In 1996, he became the British Junior Indoor Climbing Champion.
Eugene Cussons and his wife, Natasha, have a daughter named Haley. The family calls Chimp Eden home and their house is located on the family game reserve. Cussons is also a certified pilot, boat skipper, skydiver and rock climber. He's an expert off-road driver and held the position of head instructor for the Land Rover Experience in South Africa.
Catherine Monique Suzanne Destivelle (born 24 July 1960) is a French rock climber and mountaineer.Sleeman, Elizabeth (ed.), "Destivelle, Catherine Monique Suzanne", The International Who's Who of Women 2002, Routledge, 2001, pp. 139–140. In 1992 she became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face.The State, March 12, 1992, p. 4A. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
At age 23 and while still a student, Shockley married Jean Bailey in August 1933. In March 1934, the couple had a daughter, Alison. Shockley became an accomplished rock climber, going often to the Shawangunks in the Hudson River Valley. He pioneered a route across an overhang, known as "Shockley's Ceiling", which remains one of the classic climbing routes in the area.
Robert Kayen is an American rock climber best known for completing the first solo ascent of El Capitan‘s West Buttress in Yosemite National Park in 1982. The eleven-day rope-solo climb followed the original route on the West Buttress, first climbed by Layton Kor and Steve Roper in 1964.American Alpine Journal, Vol. 25, 57, 1983, p. 162-163. .
Dafydd Caradog Davis MBE is a Welsh mountain bike trail builder, known for the creation of several major UK mountain biking resorts such as Coed-y-Brenin. Davis received an MBE in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours list for 'services to forestry'. Davis is an all-round mountain athlete. He has represented his country as a fell runner and is an accomplished rock climber and alpinist.
Steve McClure (born 25 July 1970) is a British rock climber. He is famous for his hard sport climbing routes in England. In 2007 he made the free ascent of Overshadow, the second route in the UK, after John Gaskins' 2004 route 'Violent New Breed' at Giggleswick. In 2017 McClure completed his long term project, named Rainman, in Malham Cove, giving Britain its first sport route.
Mike Hoover is an American mountaineer, rock climber and cinematographer. He first became known for an Academy Award-nominated documentary short, Solo, in which he climbed El Capitan solo. His first major involvement in commercial film was with The Eiger Sanction (1975), in which he taught Clint Eastwood how to climb in the Yosemite valley before the film was shot in Grindelwald, Switzerland in 1974.Schickel, p.
On the second floor the other section is dedicated to the writer, actor, film director and rock climber Luis Trenker (Urtijëi 1894 – Bolzano 1990), that presents objects of personal possessions, honorary deeds, medals for bravery, film prizes (e.g. Golden Globus, Filmband in Gold) publications and other material of the Luis Trenker central archive donated by the Trenker family to the museum in March 2004.
Malcolm Smith (born 1973) is a rock climber born in Dunbar, Scotland. He is the brother of Scottish Visual Artist Sandy Smith. Climbing since 1988, he has developed an impressive list of repeated hard climbs, notably repeating Ben Moon's 1990 testpiece Hubble at Raven Tor aged only 18. Smith is particularly known for his commitment to tough training regimes and for his focus on bouldering.
Stefano Ghisolfi (born February 18, 1993) is an Italian professional rock climber and sport climber. He participates in international competitions in three disciplines: Lead, Bouldering and Speed, obtaining his best results in Lead climbing. On rock, he redpointed , onsighted and solved a boulder problem. In December 2018, by climbing Perfecto Mundo (Margalef, ESP), he became the fourth climber in history to redpoint a route.
In 1955, he immigrated to Vancouver, BC, where he married and had 3 children. As a young man in the northeast of England, he had discovered rock climbing and skiing. He became a legendary rock climber and would go on to achieve many first ascents in Canada, some with the legendary Fred Beckey. He then continued his passion for skiing, coaching at Grouse Mountain and Whistler Mountain.
Ron Kauk (born 23 September 1957) is an American rock climber. Kauk is associated with Camp 4 in Yosemite Valley, where he lived for decades, now a resident of El Portal, California. In 1975, he made the first free ascent of the east face of Washington Column with John Long and John Bachar. In 1978 he climbed the roof crack Separate Reality, without camming devices.
His body was recovered by rescuers just before 1 p.m. Weather was good but the freezing level was at about 10,000 feet, contributing to dicey surface conditions. Cartier was an experienced rock climber, climbed mountains around the world, and had summited Mount Hood hundreds of times. On Sunday, March 24, 2013, college student Mary Owen set out in the early morning hours to complete a solo climb.
A bust of Dragojla Jarnević in Crikvenica Dragojla Jarnević (also spelled Jarnjević), (4 January 1812 in Karlovac - 12 March 1875 in Karlovac) 12 was a Croatian poet and teacher. She became a member of the Illyrian movement, being most famous for writing of women's rights issues. She is also known for being an early mountaineer and rock-climber, famous for scaling the rock of Okić (stijena Okića).
Tom Ballard (born 16 October 1988; died 24 February 9 March 2019) was a British rock climber and alpinist, who was the first mountaineer to climb the six major alpine north faces solo in a single winter season. In February 2019, Ballard disappeared during bad weather on an expedition to Nanga Parbat, Pakistan. His body was discovered on the mountain's Mummery Spur on 9 March 2019.
Bradbury's lifetime ambition to be a 'real' rock climber was achieved when the pair successfully ascended Cornwall's Commando Ridge, Crackstone Rib in the Llanberis Pass, and the Old Man of Stoer. That year, Bradbury also presented Wainwright Walks on BBC Four, in which she followed the mountain routes of the renowned fell walker and guidebook author Alfred Wainwright. The series was later repeated on BBC Two and ran for two series.
As of January 2017, DiGiulian appears to be living in Boulder, Colorado. In March 2017 a rock climber emoji was approved and the sample image published by Emojipedia was based on DiGiulian's likeness. DiGiulian produced a film, The Trilogy, about how she became the first female and second person to climb three Canadian Rocky Mountain big walls in a single season. The Trilogy was the first film she produced.
In May 2002, Budd passed his section commander's battle course with distinction, and was due to be promoted to platoon sergeant. He was a qualified combat survival instructor, rock climber and free-fall parachutist. He was posted to the Army Foundation College in Harrogate in 2004, where he trained young soldiers. In June 2006, Budd joined A Company, 3 PARA as part of the 3,600-strong British task force.
Didier Berthod is a Swiss rock climber who has been featured in many climbing films, notably First Ascent. He specializes in traditional crack climbing and has climbed many lines of this style. First Ascent follows Didier's efforts to make the first ascent of Cobra Crack in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. It also documents his climbs in Europe and his frugal lifestyle such as working in a hostel between attempts.
Alexander Megos (born 12 August 1993) is a German rock climber. He was the first climber to on-sight (climb without prior practice or advice) a route graded . He has climbed multiple notable hard routes and boulder problems, including one route (Bibliographie), one route (Perfecto Mundo), two routes (First Round, First Minute and Fight Club), and some boulder problems with a confirmed rating. Megos has won many international competitions.
Obsessive collector J.P. Whittier, determined to obtain specimens of a newly discovered breed of bald eagle, hires rock climber Mike Walker to pose as a photographer and win reclusive conservationist Jim Malden's confidence in order to gain access to eggs from their lofty nest. Before long, Walker is converted to Malden's cause, and with the help of storekeeper Stella Clayton and her son Adam, the two men thwart Whittier's plot.
San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass. 2004. The packaging image of a rock climber was first drawn by Doug Gilmour on a napkin over dinner in San Francisco. At a September 1991 bike show, Erickson debuted three flavors: double chocolate, apricot, and date oatmeal. In its first year, sales of CLIF Bar exceeded $700,000, fueled primarily by strong sales in bike shops and the growth of the healthy and natural foods movement.
Mohammad Reza Safdarian Korouyeh () is an Iranian Rock climber and Ice climber. Safdarian has won the first Gold medal in Iran′s ice climbing history in the Ice Climbing World Tour at Rabenestin, Italy, and a Bronze medal in 2018 UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour. and a Bronze medal in 2019 UIAA Ice Climbing World Combined championships. and a Bronze medal in 2018 UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup Overall Ranking Lead.
O'Connell is herself transgender, and has attracted significant media attention for her polyamorous family life.. She lives with Sarah Brown (herself a Liberal Democrat activist and former Cambridge city councillor), Sylvia (Sarah's wife), and a number of snakes. She has three children by her first marriage, works in managing IT systems, and is a former member of the Territorial Army; she is also a keen rock climber and sailor.
Steve Swenson (born 14 February 1954) is an American rock climber, mountaineer, and author. Swenson served as the President of the Board of Directors for the American Alpine Club from 2009 to 2012. Swenson is known for his big-mountain climbing expeditions to the Karakoram range, about which he wrote the book Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict, published by Mountaineers Books. Swenson has taken part in over 15 expeditions to the area.
Libby Houston is an English poet, botanist, and rock climber. The native of North London has published several collections of poetry. Houston, a research associate at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, has discovered several new species of whitebeam (Sorbus), one of which has been given her name. In addition to membership in several organisations related to botany, Houston is a participant in the Avon Gorge & Downs Wildlife Project.
Libby Sauter (born October 8, 1984) is an American mountaineer, rock climber, and pediatric cardiac intensive care nurse educator. She and her climbing partner, Mayan Smith-Gobat, set the women's speed record climbing The Nose on El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, in 2014. In 2017, she became the youngest woman inducted into the American Alpine Club hall of fame. She was the first woman to walk the Lost Arrow Spire highline in 2007.
Nea Morin nee Banard (21 May 1905 - 12 July 1986) was a British rock climber and mountain climber. She climbed in the Alps in the 1920s, joined the Ladies Alpine Club, and met many climbers in the French Groupe de Haute Montagne. In 1928 she married Jean Morin (1897–1943) and lived in Paris. She climbed often with other women and advocated the cordée féminine, climbing only with women on a rope.
Alfred Sefton "Fred" Pigott (1895 - 28 July 1979) was a leading English rock climber of the 1920s and 1930s. Fred Pigott attended Manchester Grammar School and in World War I joined the Royal Fusiliers. While serving as a sniper, he received a gangrenous wound that deformed his hand and caused his discharge from the army. He became a sugar merchant in Stockport and had two sons, Geoffrey and Hugh, with his wife Frances.
Hojer competing at the World Cup, Munich, 2015 Hojer, 2015 Hojer second at the World Cup 2015 Jan Hojer (born February 9, 1992) is a German professional rock climber. He is known for winning one World Cup and two European Championships in bouldering. On May 2010, he climbed Action Directe, still considered to be one of the most difficult routes in the world. From 2013 to 2015, he solved several boulder problems.
"Porcella, Stephen P. & Burns, Cameron M., Climbing California's Fourteeners: 183 Routes to the Fifteen Highest Peaks (The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1998) , In Dawson's opinion, this was his most famous climb. At age 19, Dawson was already among the most accomplished mountaineers in California. Many years later, Dawson modestly wrote, "I am notable only as an historical curiosity or perhaps as a living fossil. My career as a rock climber spanned the years 1927 to about 1938.
Delaney Miller (born April 6, 1995) is an American professional rock climber. Although she is primarily a sport climber, in 2013 she took second to Sasha DiGiulian in The Heist, a bouldering competition by and for women. She placed second in the 2013 Psicocomp to DiGiulian, and placed second again in 2014 to Claire Buhrfeind. In April 2014, she beat out DiGiulian and Buhrfeind to become the Sports Climbing Series National Champion.
Renan Ozturk (born April 7, 1980) is a Turkish-American rock climber, free soloist, mountaineer, and visual artist, best known for climbing the Shark's Fin route on his second attempt to Meru Peak in the Himalayas with Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker in 2011, where he also suffered a minor stroke. The successful 2011 ascent of the Shark's Fin on Meru and a prior attempt in 2008 were detailed in the 2015 documentary film Meru.
Rouse was an outstanding technical rock climber, one of the best of his generation. His ascents of 'The Beatnik' on Helsby, and his solo ascent of 'The Boldest'Wilson, Ken and Newman, Bernard, Extreme Rock, p134. Diadem 1987 () on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu marked him out as an exceptional talent. He was a member of a group of contemporaries (including Cliff Phillips, Eric Jones, Pete Minks, 'Richard' McHardy) whose competitive spirit pushed them to solo the hardest routes of the day.
Algernon Haskett-Smith (4 July 1856 – 21 November 1887) was an English first- class cricketer and barrister. The son of Haskett Smith and the elder brother of the rock climber Walter Parry Haskett Smith, he was born in November 1887 at Marylebone. He was educated at Eton College, before going up to University College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for A. W. Ridley's XI against Oxford University at Oxford in 1879.
A knitter using an "Indi Knit" adaptive device to hold one knitting needle. A rock climber using a prosthetic leg designed for the sport. Inclusive recreation, also known as adaptive or accessible recreation, is a concept whereby people with disabilities are given the opportunity to participate in recreational activities. Through the use of activity modifications and assistive technology, athletes or participants in sports or other recreational pursuits are able to play alongside their non-disabled peers.
Gager undertook additional studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Tübingen in Germany. During his studies in Yale, Gager was a Freedom Rider, and was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in June 1961. Gager's scholarly concern is with the religions of the Roman Empire, especially early Christianity and its relations to ancient Judaism, and has also written on the theme of religion and magic. Professor Gager is also an avid rock climber, kayaker, and cyclist.
Nesbø played top-flight football for Molde FK until he tore the cruciate ligaments in his knee, and had to concentrate on other aspects of his life. Nesbø is a dedicated rock climber and has climbed sport routes up to French grade 7c. In addition to his career as author, Nesbø is also the main vocalist and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. He lives close to his former wife and their daughter in Oslo.
Molly, a veteran rock-climber, climbs up to the armored vehicle and attaches a rope. She discovers a terra- cotta head, having been taken from one of the many statues in the city, mounted to the vehicle's exhaust port as a trophy. The group begins descending into argument, dissension, and anger as the days pass. Duncan and Molly want to explore the city and catalog its sites, later to release the findings to the academic world for further exploration.
Robert upon successfully scaling the Singapore Flyer Alain Robert (born as Robert Alain Philippe on 7 August 1962) is a French rock climber and urban climber, from Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France. Known as "the French Spider-Man" (after the comic character Spider-Man) or "the Human Spider," Robert is famous for his free solo climbing, scaling skyscrapers using no climbing equipment except for a small bag of chalk and a pair of climbing shoes.
Jerry Moffatt (born 1963) is a professional rock climber from Leicestershire, England. One of the best and most prolific climbers of the 1980s. In August 1983, Moffatt did his first 8a, a free ascent of Oyster on Pen Trwyn Wales. In September 1983 in Germany he did the first 8a+ with a new route called The Face. May 1984 he climbed Revelations on Ravens Tor in the Peak District, then graded 8a+, now graded 8b after broken holds.
" Indeed, Collie's entry in Hans Kaufmann's Führerbuch reads: Hans is "an excellent rock climber with a good knowledge of snow and ice, very strong, most willing and obliging, and a charming companion."Kaufmann, Hans. Führerbuch, pp. 88-89. Upon their return to Switzerland at the end of the climbing season (October 1902), Hans and Christian Kaufmann reported that the season had been most successful, saying "that many of the climbers they go out with return regularly each season.
Janja Garnbret (born March 12, 1999) is a Slovenian rock climber and sport climber who has won multiple lead climbing and bouldering events. Garnbret won her first international title in the lead competition of the 2014 World Youth B Championships. In July 2015, just after turning 16, she started competing in the senior category of the Lead Climbing World Cup. Since then, she participated in 31 Lead Climbing World Cup events, missing the podium in only four of them.
Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala (, born 3 September 1979) is a Sri Lankan adventurer, professional rock climber, motivational speaker, and LGBT and women's rights activist. She is the first person from Sri Lanka to summit Mount Everest which she achieved on 21 May 2016. Kuru-Utumpala is an advocate for women's rights in Sri Lanka and has spent most of her adult life researching gender studies and women's rights. She formed a collaboration with fellow mountaineer Johann Peries for several expeditions.
David Callaway and Mark Vallance at Satpara Lake launching Broad Peak expedition Mark Vallance (1946 - 19 April 2018) was a British rock climber, mountaineer and founder of Wild Country, a climbing equipment company. He was instrumental in the design and development of a range of new equipment. A particularly successful design was a spring-loaded camming device branded the 'Friend'. It was revolutionary as a form of climbing protection, enabling climbers to tackle routes involving parallel or flared cracks in relative safety.
Artimes Farshad Yeganeh (, born 27 May 1981 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian rock climber who has been climbing for 30 years of experiences as a professional climber, members of Iran sport climbing National Team for many years, as route setter in many national, continental and world cups and championships, and head coach of Iran Sport Climbing National Team for 6 years. He also participates in sport climbing and bouldering competitions and is one of the most famous Iranian climbers.
The Nose route goes up the protruding prow where the lighted face meets the shadowed face in this view of El Capitan. The Salathé Wall route goes below and to the left of the recessed feature called "The Heart" and then straight up the central part of the face of El Capitan. The Kor-Ingalls Route on Castleton Tower. Charles Marshall Pratt (March 5, 1939 – December 16, 2000) was an American rock climber known for big wall climbing first ascents in Yosemite Valley.
In 2009 and 2010, Chao and Megan Kerr undertook the "Steppe By Steppe — Side By Side" expedition in Central Asia, traveling on a Quike touring quadracycle from Astana, Kazakhstan through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang (an autonomous region in Western China). Chao is also a whitewater kayaker, caver, rock climber, skier. He has worked as a professional guide and expedition consultant, and as a section rep and delegate for Search and Rescue. Chao serves on the executive committee of The Explorers Club.
Richard "Dick" Williams is a rock climber and entrepreneur from the Hudson River Valley of New York. He pioneered many first ascents in the Shawangunk Ridge and established the area's first rock climbing store in New Paltz on April 10, 1970. The store is called Rock & Snow and is still there today under new ownership. Dick was one of the original Vulgarians, a group of climbers in the 1960s who were opposed to the government attempting to license and regulate rock climbing.
Wilford graduated from Poudre High School in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1977 and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for one semester. He began climbing in 1970, and became a leading rock climber while still in high school, gradually adding bold ice climbing, alpine rock and alpine mixed routes to his accomplishments. Wilford is considered a staunch traditionalist when it comes to the style and ethics of climbing. Wilford works as a Sales Representative for Julbo, La Sportiva, Sterling and Metolius.
Houston's whitebeam was discovered by Libby Houston, a research associate at the University of Bristol School of Biological Sciences. The rock climber found the rare hybrid on a Carboniferous Limestone cliff at Avon Gorge in 2005. DNA analysis of nuclear microsatellites at the University of Bristol was performed and confirmed the nature of the new hybrid. The tree was officially named after Houston in February 2009 in Volume 27, Part 3 of Watsonia, the journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles.
Allison Vest (born June 26, 1995) is a Canadian rock climber renowned for her accomplishments in bouldering and lead climbing. She is known for winning the Canadian Bouldering Nationals in 2018 and 2020. She also came first in Canadian Lead Nationals in 2019, and placed 10th in the World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar in 2019. In August 2019, Vest became the first female Canadian climber to a conquer a V13 boulder, successfully sending The Terminator in Squamish, British Columbia.
His education began at Tudor House School in Moss Vale, New South Wales, and continued at Cranbrook School, Sydney, both of which list him as a notable alumnus. Representing Cranbrook he achieved a 1st in the 1964 Australian Rowing Championships. Described by rock climber John Ewbank as a "very eccentric young man" Draffin was also secretary of the Sydney Rock Climbing Club while at Cranbrook. He studied literature at the University of Sydney but, drawn more towards creative than academic pursuits, chose not to complete his degree.
Wiessner was a 39-year-old German rock climber who had achieved a huge number of climbing routes in the Alps, some of them outstanding first ascents. He was an astute businessman in the chemical industry and a visit to America in 1929 drew him into spending more, and then nearly all, his time there. In 1932 he joined an expedition to Nanga Parbat led by Willy Merkl. From their high point at Wiessner spotted K2 away and the mountain became an obsession for him.
Lewis performing a tip stand in Munich, Germany, 2012 Andy Lewis (born October 7, 1986), is a professional performer and speaker, stunt/safety coordinator, Tandem BASE jump master, slackliner, and internationally recognized extreme sports athlete. Lewis started a Tandem BASE Jumping Company in 2018 called “BASE Jump Moab,” and is currently running it professionally. Lewis is most famous for his efforts as a slackliner. Lewis has completed numerous accomplishments as a highliner and trickliner, and is also a distinguished BASE jumper and rock climber.
Wojciech Kurtyka (also Voytek Kurtyka, born 25 July 1947, in Skrzynka near Kłodzko) is a Polish mountaineer and rock climber, one of the pioneers of the alpine style of climbing the biggest walls in the Greater Ranges. He lived in Wrocław up to 1974 when he moved to Kraków. He graduated as engineer in electronics (in 1973 at Wrocław University of Technology). In 1985 he climbed the "Shining Wall" Gasherbrum IV, which Climbing magazine declared to be the greatest achievement of mountaineering in the twentieth century.
In 1990, another rock climber was rescued by the firefighter. The island was used to be connected to Shek O Headland by a footbridge, as well as a tombolo that would be covered by water during high tides. However, the bridge was destroyed by a typhoon in 2018 and being re-built as of 2019. Along the bridge deck, a waste water pipe was installed to transport waste water from Shek O Preliminary Treatment Works to the island and then release to the Tathong Channel.
For example, those who have installed pacemakers, hearing aids, artificial body parts, cochlear implants as well as other technologies that may aid in enhancing an organisms abilities and capacities to perform, either physically or mentally. Hugh Herr, an American rock climber, engineer, and biophysicist, has successfully invented the next generation of cyborg (bionic limbs and robotic prosthetics). As the head of the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group in MIT, he shared his experience and presented the team achievement first time in a TED talk show.
The conflict came to a head in 1997, when flooding in Yosemite Valley destroyed many employee housing units. The Park Service decided to build a three-story dormitory complex at Camp 4, effectively eliminating the campground. Tom Frost financed and led the fight to save Camp 4, with help from attorney Richard Duane. Together, Frost and Duane filed a lawsuit against the National Park Service to save the historic rock climber campsite, and convinced the American Alpine Club to add their name to the list of plaintiffs.
Jean-Baptiste Tribout, better known as J.B. Tribout (born 14 December 1961) is a French rock climber and sport climber. The East Face of Monkey Face at Smith Rock containing Just do it, 8c+ / 5.14c, established by Tribout in 1992 and at the time considered the hardest route in the USA. He started climbing aged seven in Fontainebleau, France with his grandfather, a mountaineer, and also joined the youth section of the French Alpine Club. There he met other young climbers such as Catherine Destivelle.
Backshall is a rock climber and mountaineer, does adventure races, fell runs and endurance sports. In 2014, he summitted the highly technical granite Mount Asgard in Arctic Baffin Island, in one single 27-hour summit push. Ice and alpine climbing are described as being among his great passions, and he has climbed such peaks as Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8201m, and Cholatse in the Himalayan Khumbu. He qualified as an advanced Himalayan Expedition leader from India's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.
To make ends meet, and alleviate writing "amazingly dull" papers on fishery matters, he moonlighted as a commercial diver for a mussel farm. He managed a fish farm for a time, but the farm was forced to close (through no fault of his own) and he started to write. Six years and 74 rejections later, his first book (The Forlorn) was published by Baen Books. Dave is an ardent rock-climber and has opened many routes near Morgan's Bay in the Eastern Cape (South Africa).
Ashima Shiraishi (born April 3, 2001 in New York, NY) is an American rock climber. Shiraishi started climbing at the age of six at Rat Rock in Central Park, joining her father. Only a few years later, she quickly established herself as one of the top boulderers and sport climbers in the world, and is nowadays widely considered to be the best teenage climber of either gender. Her numerous accolades include first-place finishes in international competitions, and multiple first female and youngest ascents.
Ueli Steck (; 4 October 1976 – 30 April 2017) was a Swiss rock climber and mountaineer. He was the first to climb Annapurna solo via its notoriously challenging South Face, and set speed records on the North Face trilogy in the Alps. He won two Piolet d'Or awards, in 2009 and 2014. Having previously summitted Mount Everest, Steck died on 30 April 2017 after falling during an acclimatizing climb for an attempt on the Hornbein route on the West Ridge of Everest without supplemental oxygen.
He beat fringe contenders Wayne Mulholland and Rolando Navarro, both by a knockout in the fifth round, to start 1985. After those two wins, he was placed number one among the world's bantamweights by the International Boxing Federation. However, his early wins by KO had some of the press wondering if he could last the full 15 round distance. Most famously, Fenech lost in the Lake Conjola International, held at the local bowling club, to close rival and champion rock climber and boatsman, Peter Newhouse.
Ross was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At age 11, she did a 100-km bicycle trip and since has been a parachutist, a mountain-biker, a rock-climber, a skier and a triathlete. She credits her grandfather and patients for motivating her to exercise and coined the slogan "your life is worth one hour a day". After attending Queen's University for an undergraduate degree in biology, she went to the University of British Columbia for her medical degree and Dalhousie University for her specialization in cardiology.
Klingler at the 2015 World Cup in Munich Petra Klingler (born February 14, 1992) is a Swiss competition rock climber. Known as a versatile climber, she competes in bouldering and speed, lead, and ice climbing. It is historically rare for a climber to compete in so many different disciplines, especially ice climbing, although the combined format of the Tokyo Olympics has made it more common. Klingler was encouraged by her former coach to try ice climbing for fun, and as a way to build mental discipline.
Robert K. Brinton (January 9, 1915 – December 9, 1996)California State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County of Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles: Certificate of Birth. State of California, Certificate of Vital Record, County of Yolo, Woodland, California 95695: Certificate of Death. was a pioneer American rock climber, ski mountaineer and professional chemist. Along with his frequent climbing partner, Glen Dawson, he made numerous first ascents in California, British Columbia, and Utah in the 1930s and named a number of well-known routes.
Steve Bechtel (March 19, 1970) is a rock climber with first ascents all over the world.Steve's First Notable Big Wall Climb in American Alpine Journal He is also a rock climbing guidebook author and coach. Bechtel lives in Lander, Wyoming where he owns Elemental Performance + Fitness GymGym Owner at Elemental Performance and Fitness and runs the climbing training program known as Climb Strong. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and holds a degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Wyoming.
James Merriman Archer Thomson (5 February 1863 – 31 July 1912) was a British rock-climber and mountaineer. Thomson climbed extensively in North Wales with others such as Oscar Eckenstein. He was a believer in leading on sight, and was not keen on O. G. Jones's practice of surveying a route with a top-rope. He extensively explored the cliffs of Lliwedd, and in 1909 with A. W. Andrews, produced the first official climbing guide to the cliff (published by the then-recently founded Climbers' Club).
Tobin Sorenson (June 15, 1955 - October 5, 1980) was an American rock climber famed for establishing bold first ascents on Yosemite big walls, in the Alps, Canadian Rockies, and New Zealand."" A California native, Sorenson honed his climbing skills in Tahquitz, Joshua Tree National Park, and Yosemite Valley.Stonemastergear Sorenson is considered by some the best all-around climber of his time. A contemporary of John Long and John Bachar in a group they called the Stonemasters putting up daring new routes in the Idyllwild, California area, Sorenson pushed risk standards in rock and alpine realm.
Maurizio Zanolla also known as Manolo (born in Feltre, 16 February 1958) is an Italian rock climber and mountaineer. Manolo is one of the first Italian free climber who became world-famous very young for his free solo ascents in the Dolomites. He is the first Italian ever to climb a route of the grade 8b ("l'Ultimo Movimento in Totoga" (Pale di San Martino)) in 1986 and of grade 8a in free solo on "Masala Dosa" on the wall of "San Silvestro" in 1992. He never took part to climbing competitions and contests.
A rock climber ascending a rope Rock Climbing Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a usually pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing is a physically and mentally demanding sport, one that often tests a climber's strength, endurance, agility and balance along with mental control. Knowledge of proper climbing techniques and use of specialized climbing equipment is crucial for the safe completion of routes.
Patrick Berhault (19 July 1957 - 28 April 2004) was a professional French free climber, mountaineer and mountain guide. He died while climbing Dom ridge, Switzerland, during his attempt to linkup all 82 Alps 4000 meter summits in 82 days. Patrick Berhault is best known for popularizing sport climbing in France with his friend rock climber legend Patrick Edlinger in the late 70s and in the 80s. He also practiced free solo climbing and was one of the pioneer alpinists who developed light and fast mountaineering in the nineties.
Isaac Caldiero (born March 2, 1982) is an American athlete, rock climber and carpenter, who competed on American Ninja Warrior in seasons five, six, seven, and ten. He is best-known for finishing all four stages of the National Finals course in season seven and becoming one of the first three Americans (along with Geoff Britten, David Campbell in SASUKE Vietnam 2, and later Drew Drechsel in season 11) to achieve what is known as "Total Victory". Caldiero was awarded a $1,000,000 cash prize after completing Stage 4 in a faster time than Britten.
Kevin Thaw (born 1967 in Uppermill, Saddleworth, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British rock climber and mountaineer. Thaw has climbed notable routes and added many first ascents since commencing in Britain’s Peak District then relocating to California and journeying extensively through: Yosemite, El Capitan, Argentine Patagonia, the Himalaya, Alaska, Canadian Rockies, Alps, Mount Everest North side, summit June 2007. In 2007, he joined the Altitude Everest Expedition 2007, led by renowned American climber and mountaineer, Conrad Anker, retracing the last steps of legendary British climber, George Mallory, on Everest.
Kyra Condie (born June 5, 1996) is an American rock climber. As of April 2019, she was ranked 13 in boulder category. In December 2019, she qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics following her finish at the IFSC Combined Qualifier Toulouse 2019, becoming the second female American climber to do so. Condie has attributed her climbing style that relies more on muscles than technique to training mostly at a small Minneapolis gym with only a 45-degree spray wall and the difficulty she has twisting her body because of her fused spine.
He was born in Ealing and educated at Ealing Grammar School, the son of William J Stephenson and Hilda M Huson. He was a member of the Quintin Boat Club and competed at the Henley Regatta in the Thames Challenge Cup (1932–1935) and the Grand Challenge Cup in 1936. He was also a keen rock climber, frequently visiting Scotland on his motorcycle. In 1948 he married Beryl Withall (née Simon) (the widow of Latham Carr Withall, a Spitfire pilot killed on 12 August 1940) and adopted her two sons (Carr and Peter).
Richard Manning Leonard (October 22, 1908 – July 31, 1993) was an American rock climber, environmentalist and attorney. He served as president of the Sierra Club and the Save the Redwoods League, and was active in the Wilderness Society and the American Alpine Club. Leonard was born in Elyria, Ohio and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and also received his law degree from the University of California. On March 13, 1932, Leonard formed the Cragmont Climbing Club in Berkeley, California with Jules Eichorn, Bestor Robinson and several others.
Luca Giammarco, from Italy, is the top-ranked slalom skateboarder in the world. A multi-talented competitor, Giammarco was a competitive rock climber and placed in the 1999 and 2001 UIIA World Cup climbing competitions. In 1989, he earned 3rd place in the Slalom event at the World Championships of Skateboarding (the first year that Tony Hawk made the podium in this competition, placing 1st place in the Pro Half-pipe.) Giammarco was the # 1 slalom skateboarder in world in 2003, dropped to 3rd in 2004, and regained his #1 overall position in 2005.
Jimmy Webb (born November 7, 1987) is an American professional rock climber specializing in bouldering. He is one of a handful of climbers who have climbed the boulder grade . Webb was the men's winner of the 2013 Psicobloc Masters Series held in Park City, UT. He beat several of the world's best climbers to win the event, including Chris Sharma, Daniel Woods, Dave Graham, Tommy Caldwell, and Carlo Traversi. In spring 2014, Webb climbed The Understanding and Practice of the Wild, both V15, within a week of each other.
Dave Rearick (born August 5, 1932) is an American rock climber and mathematician. A pioneer of Yosemite's golden age of climbing, Rearick – frequently climbing with Bob Kamps – was instrumental in shifting the focus from aid climbing to free climbing in the 1950s. Rearick and Royal Robbins climbed the Vampire at Tahquitz Rock in California in 1959; though some aid was used (not eliminated until 1973), the route required 5.10 climbing, exceptionally difficult for the times. A year later the team of Robbins and Rearick established Yosemite's first 5.10 climb: the East Chimney of Rixon's Pinnacle.
Evan "The Rocket" Dollard is a U.S. athlete and rock climber. He came to prominence during Season 1 of the rebooted American Gladiators, as the season 1 men's champion. He earned his nickname "Rocket" from his speed in Gladiator competition, taking it as his gladiator name, becoming a Gladiator for season 2 of the rebooted American Gladiators. He has since appeared prominently in the Ninja Warrior franchise; in American Ninja Warrior (and hence US TV specials for Sasuke called "Ninja Warrior") and the standalone American Ninja Warrior, also using his nickname.
Vera Watson (1932 – October 17, 1978) was an American mountaineer and rock climber who made the first woman's solo climb of Acongagua, the highest mountain in the Americas. She also made several first ascents in the Kenai Mountains in Alaska. She was a member of the successful first all-women team to climb Annapurna, but was killed along with her partner Alison Chadwick- Onyszkiewicz while preparing to attempt the unclimbed central summit of the mountain. Watson was a computer scientist, working at IBM Research in San Jose, California, from 1973 onwards .
In 2016, Stableford directed The Calling: A Portrait of Life in the High Country, a short film featuring three Colorado residents—a rock climber, a rancher, and a spirits distiller—pursuing their professional dreams. The documentary was produced by Steve Tobenkin of LeTo Entertainment for Canon, and was a collaboration with Academy Award-winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter. The film was presented by Canon at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In 2012, Stableford produced, directed and DP'd Shattered, a short film about renowned alpinist Steve House's search for meaning beyond climbing.
Rudolf Fehrmann (22 June 1886 – 1947), a German, was a pioneer rock climber at Elbsandsteingebirge near Dresden. He began climbing at the age of 17 and was soon at the leading edge of the fledgling sport. He and Oliver Perry-Smith, an American college student and fellow climber living in Dresden, became as close as brothers and formed a team which pushed the limits of risk and difficulty on the steep sandstone spires, making many first ascents. Early on, Fehrmann exerted leadership in both climbing ethics and environmental protection.
Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform a free solo climb of El Capitan in June 2017.Free Solo Movie Review Common Sense Media.'Free Solo': How filmmakers avoided kill Alex Honnold as he climbed USA Today. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2018, and also screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award in the Documentaries category.
Eldorado Canyon Pat Ament (born September 3, 1946) is an American rock climber, filmmaker, musician, and artist who lives in Fruita, Colorado. Noted for first ascents in the 1960s and 1970s, he is the author of many articles and books. Ament began climbing in 1958, and by the mid 1960s had established the first 5.11 climbs in Colorado (Supremacy Crack) and Yosemite (Center Route on the Slack). A college gymnast, he was a dedicated boulderer and put up many challenging problems on Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder, Colorado, elsewhere in Colorado and in Yosemite Valley.
John Long after the first one-day ascent of the Nose in 1975 Jim Bridwell in Salt Lake City, circa 1990 Jim Bridwell (July 29, 1944 – February 16, 2018) was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active since 1965, especially in Yosemite Valley, but also in Patagonia and Alaska. He is noted for pushing the standards of both free climbing and big-wall climbing, and later alpine climbing. He wrote numerous articles on climbing for leading sport publications. He was an apprentice to Royal Robbins and Warren Harding (climber).
Alexander Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. His 2017 accomplishment of free soloing El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park, is regarded as one of the greatest athletic achievements of all time. Honnold is the only person to free solo El Capitan, and holds the fastest ascent of the Yosemite triple crown, an 18-hour, 50-minute link-up of Mount Watkins, The Nose, and the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome. Honnold says he likes tall, long routes and that he tries to do them quickly.
Rock climber Peter Croft began what continues to be a long and illustrious climbing career in Squamish in the late 1970s. He astounded the climbing community by putting up a number of bold new free climbing routes on the Chief which, at the time, pushed the limits of what people thought was possible. More recently, Brad Zdanivsky became the first quadriplegic ever to reach the summit on 31 July 2005. In the summer of 2006, Sonnie Trotter established what was at the time considered to be the hardest traditionally protected single rock pitch in North America, and possibly the world: Cobra Crack (5.14).
Tommy Caldwell (born August 11, 1978) is an American rock climber accomplished in sport climbing, hard traditional climbing, big-wall speed climbing, and big-wall free climbing. Caldwell made the first free ascents of several El Capitan routes in Yosemite National Park. He made the first ascents of some of the hardest sport routes in the U.S., including Kryptonite with grade of 5.14c/d and Flex Luthor with a grade of 5.15a, at the Fortress of Solitude, Colorado. In January 2015, Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson completed the first free climb of the Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
Rannveig Aamodt (born 3 January 1984 in Molde, Norway) is a Norwegian rock climber and adventurer.Rannveig Aamodt web page (retrieved April 4, 2014) At 22 years old, she became one of the youngest people to complete a 3,800-kilometer winter ski traverse of Norway, starting at the country's southernmost point (the lighthouse at Lindesnes) and ending 14 weeks later at the northernmost point on the mainland (Nordkapp). Aamodt began the unassisted journey in 2006 on her birthday with fellow adventurer Anne Grete Nebell. The pair was accompanied by two Greenland dogs, which helped them pull their supply-laden pulk.
On his return to Britain he had a spell training and working as a teacher in England, before settling in North Wales in 1968 and starting a business - Snowdon Mouldings - manufacturing climbing helmets.Peter Donnelly, ‘Anthoine, Julian Vincent (Mo) (1939–1989)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2006. Anthoine was a good technical rock climber and made a number of first ascents in North Wales, the best known of which was The Groove on Llech Ddu, a crag on the north side of Carnedd Dafydd. However, it was for his mountaineering that he is best remembered.
Hayden Kennedy (1990-2017) was an American rock climber and mountaineer who made difficult ascents in North America, Patagonia and in the Himalaya. He committed suicide in 2017 after the sudden death of his partner. He was the son of renowned writer and mountaineer Michael Kennedy and he won the Piolet d'Or for his ascent of The Ogre in 2013. In 2012, Kennedy came to prominence following a "fair means" ascent of the Compressor Route on Cerro Torre during which he and his partner Jason Kruk chopped the bolt ladders left by Cesare Maestri on the first ascent.
In July 2013, Burge started the emoji reference site Emojipedia, after wondering how long the doughnut emoji had been in existence, and not being able to find an answer on Google or Wikipedia. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the site had 23 million page views per month in 2017. Burge works as Chief Emoji Officer at Emojipedia overseeing editorial content on the site and has occupied this role full-time since 2016. Burge worked with professional sportspeople Tony Hawk and Sasha DiGiulian to improve the accuracy of Emojipedia's sample images for the skateboard and rock climber characters respectively.
In 2014, Dr. Vazquez began a six-month pilot-project and registered as a NGO in Mexico. December of that year, the Board of Directors formed, and at the same time Escalando Fronteras launched the "Climbing Beyond Cartels" campaign on fundraising platform IndieGoGo, raising $16k. The program has garnered media coverage from NatGeo Blog, Mashable, Reuters, and climbing magazines Desnivel and Rock & Ice. Rock climber Alex Honnold, famous for soloing one of the Mexico's tallest climbable cliff faces, was among the campaign's donors, for the perk of naming a new climbing route bolted by Escalando Fronteras mentor Gareth (Gaz) Leah.
Paul ("Tut") Braithwaite (born 2 June 1946) is a British rock climber, mountaineer and company director. With Nick Estcourt he climbed Mount Everest's almost vertical Rock Band which has been said to have been the key to the success of the 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition. He was president of the Alpine Club from 2007 to 2010. Point Innominata (Aguja Rafael Juarez), a peak of Aguja Saint Exupery Born in Oldham in 1946, Paul Braithwaite, always known to climbers as "Tut", took to rock climbing at the age of fourteen on rock outcrops in the Pennines.
Vienna, 2010 Mélissa Le Nevé (born July 8, 1989) is a French professional rock climber. Le Nevé grew up in the Vosges, and began climbing at age 15, at a gym near Bordeaux. She is sponsored by Petzl, Adidas, and Five Ten Footwear. She lives in Fontainebleau... She was the French women's bouldering champion in 2010 and 2013, placed fourth in the Bouldering World Cup standings in 2011, and has placed second at World Cup events in Slovenia, 2013, and Switzerland and Japan, 2016... She retired from competitive climbing in 2016, after finishing third in that year's bouldering world cup.
David John Scott Cook (4 August 1941 – 25 February 1993) was a British communist activist, also known as a rock climber. Born in Warrington, Cook grew up in Solihull, and was educated at Solihull Grammar School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). He then became a teacher in Leeds and was active in the Young Communist League, eventually becoming its full-time National Organiser, based in London.Graham Stevenson, "Cook Dave", Compendium of Communist Biography Involved in rock climbing since his school days, Cook became a prominent writer on the subject.
He was born at St Lawrence, Isle of Wight the son of Rev R. W. Odell and his wife, M. M. Ewart. He was educated at Brighton College and the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College. He received a doctorate (PhD) from Cambridge University. He was an accomplished rock climber, joining the Alpine Club in 1916 and famous for his solo first ascent in 1919 of Tennis Shoe on the Idwal Slabs, in Snowdonia. Odell Gully in the Huntington Ravine of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is named after Odell, who was the first to accomplish its ascent in winter.
Keir grew up in Perth, Western Australia. He moved to the Gold Coast where he joined the Film and Television Industry. His experience with rope access as an Arborist and rock climber gained him a reputation in the industry as a stunt rigger. He spent eight months in the Namibian desert, filming Mad Max: Fury Road in which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture, Two Taurus Awards for Best Stunt Rigging and Best Stunt Coordination and/or 2ndD Unit Direction and an OFTA Film Award for Best Stunt Coordination.
Greg Child (born 12 April 1957) is an Australian-born rock climber, mountaineer, author and filmmaker. He has authored several books: Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas, Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child, Postcards from the Ledge, Over the Edge and Climbing Free (co-authored with Lynn Hill), and has written numerous magazine articles for "Outside", "Climbing", "Rock and Ice" and "Men's Journal". In 1987, Child was honoured with the American Alpine Club's Literary Award for his prolific and insightful mountaineering literature. In 2011 Child was President of the Jury for mountaineering's coveted Piolet d'Or.
During her time at The North Face, Krcik served for a period as The North Face's athlete manager and spearheaded the brand's program, which has continued to grow. She was known for having mentored and represented many outdoor industry athletes, including the late Todd Skinner, an American rock climber, and Conrad Anker. Skinner approached Krcik while she was at The North Face seeking sponsorship for himself and Paul Piana before their first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on Yosemite's El Capitan. Krcik founded Extreme Connection, the first agency to represent outdoor athletes to secure speaking engagements and endorsement deals, in 1992, with Skinner as her main client.
Layton Kor (June 11, 1938 - April 21, 2013) was an American rock climber active in the 1960s, whose first ascents and drive for climbing are well known in the climbing world. His routes included many climbs in Eldorado Canyon, near Boulder, Colorado, The Diamond on Longs Peak, towers in the desert southwest, and Yosemite National Park, among other locations. Notable among his first ascents is the Kor-Ingalls Route on Castleton Tower and The Finger of Fate Route up the Fisher Towers' Titan; both routes are recognized in the historic climbing text Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. Kor also authored the book Beyond the Vertical.
Ray Jardine (born in 1944) is an American rock climber who, with Bill Price, in May 1979, was the first to free climb the West Face of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Jardine is also a mountaineer, sea kayaker, sailor, hang glider pilot, sailplane pilot, and small aircraft pilot, skydiver, long- distance hiker, bicyclist, motorcyclist, and gear designer. Jardine is noted for inventing and developing the spring-loaded camming devices called Friends with the late Mark Vallance, which revolutionized rock climbing in the late 1970s. He is also noted for his contributions to the ultralight backpacking community through his books and his "make-it-yourself" gear company, Ray-Way Products.
Jerry Gallwas (born 1936) is an American rock climber active in the 1950s during the dawn of the Golden Age of Yosemite Rock Climbing.Denny, Glen, Yosemite in the Sixties, Patagonia and T. Adler Books, 2007 Roper, Steve, Ed., Ordeal by Piton Writings From the Golden Age of Yosemite Climbing, Stanford University Libraries, 2003, . He achieved a number of pioneering first ascents including sandstone spires in the American Southwest, and the first ascent of the Northwest Face of Half Dome with Royal Robbins and Mike Sherrick in 1957. Gallwas made his own heat-treated chrome-molybdenum steel alloy pitons, which contributed to the success of the climb.
His death caused controversy and debate because he was passed by a number of other climbers heading to and returning from the summit as he was dying, although a number of others tried to help him. Sharp had previously summitted Cho Oyu and was noted as being a talented rock climber who seemed to acclimatize well, and was known for being in good humor around mountaineering camps. He appeared briefly in season one of the television show Everest: Beyond the Limit, which was filmed the same season as his ill-fated expedition to Everest. Sharp had a degree from the University of Nottingham and pursued climbing as a hobby.
In 1930 Crofton matriculated at Sidney Sussex College in the University of Cambridge, eventually earning an MB in 1937 and MD in 1947. During his studies he was a keen rock-climber, making frequent expeditions to the Scottish Highlands, and pioneering a number of climbs, one of which (the Cumming-Crofton route on Mitre Ridge in the Cairngorms) still bears his name. Like most Cambridge medical students, his clinical practice was in London, in his case at St Thomas's Hospital. During this time his family moved from Dublin to London and he lived with his parents for the first time since the age of nine.
The north summit can be reached from Arc Pass, and was first climbed by Norman Clyde in 1922. The west face was first climbed in 1954, and is a ascent. In 1968, capable rock climber 27-year-old Anita Ossofsky and two fellow climbers, all of whom were well qualified and properly equipped, ascended class 3 terrain on Mt. McAdie in good weather from Arc Pass, traversed from the east face of Middle Peak to the Gulley (which divides Middle and North Peaks), and at the top of the Gulley, apparently a hand-hold of Ossofsky's gave way."Accident Reports: California, Sierra Nevada, Mt. McAdie," The American Alpine Journal and Accidents (1969; AAC (American Alpine Club) Publications).
Sasha DiGiulian on Pure Imagination 5.14c route on the main Chocolate Factory wall in Red River Gorge of Kentucky, 2011 Sasha DiGiulian (born October 23, 1992) is a professional rock climber who in 2012 became the first American woman to climb grade . She has climbed over 30 First Female Ascents as well as 8 significant First Ascents, including "Rolihlahla" in South Africa, a Big Wall in Brazil in 2016 and The Misty Wall in Yosemite in 2017. In 2011 she redpointed , onsighted two of and four of . In 2015, she became the first woman to free climb Magic Mushroom (7c+), one of the most difficult routes on the north face of the Eiger.
On 20 December 2018, professional rock climber Alex Honnold announced his partnership with Rivian as a brand partner and collaborator. During a live stream on 15 June 2019, Rivian announced plans to collaborate with the Honnold Foundation and nonprofit Casa Pueblo on a solar project aiming to establish a microgrid in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, a city that was severely affected by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Rivian plans to repurpose used battery packs from its development vehicles into stationary energy storage units. The microgrid is intended to grant residents access to electricity for core business and will be used daily to mitigate the high cost of energy in Puerto Rico, which is twice the U.S. national average.
Pamela Shanti Pack (born circa 1976). is an American rock climber who specializes in off-width crack climbing.. She has made "close to 80 first ascents", many of them in Vedauwoo, Wyoming.... Pack grew up in Middlebury, Vermont as the daughter of poet Robert Pack. As a child she was a competitive gymnast, but stopped after getting a stress fracture in her spine.. She earned a degree in art and architecture from Yale University, and studied painting in Vermont and Paris before setting up an art studio in Seattle. She was formerly an ice climber, until a 2006 attack of compartment syndrome forced her to choose a climbing style that involved less gripping.
Outdoor Research sponsors athletes and brand ambassadors that are professionals in the company’s core sports. Examples include rock climber Beth Rodden, who is best known for her numerous first female ascents throughout the Yosemite Valley, including a redpoint of the 5.14c Meltdown. Hans Florine, also an Outdoor Research Ambassador, is one of the most accomplished rock climbers of his time, holding various speed records as well as over 100 ascents of The Nose on El Capitan. Also on the Outdoor Research Ambassador roster is professional skier and host of the hit TV series Tiny House Nation Zack Giffin, alpine and ice climbing guide Sarah Hueniken, and Swiss-American ski mountaineering guide Martin Volken.
George Henry Lowe III (born August 16, 1944) is an American rock climber and alpinist, noted for his history of alpine-style mountaineering on difficult and infrequently repeated routes and his development of traditional climbing routes in the Western United States. He pioneered winter ascents in the North American Rockies along with cousins Jeff Lowe (climber), Mike Lowe, and Greg Lowe. He is also known for his technically difficult ascents of mixed climbing faces in the Himalayas including the unclimbed North Ridge of Latok I (within 200m of the summit) and the first ascent of the East Face of Mount Everest (Kangshung Face), where the Lowe Buttress bears his name. Lowe is currently a resident of Colorado.
Terry "Mugs" Stump (August 28, 1949 – May 21, 1992) was a noted American rock climber and mountaineer, active in establishing difficult first ascents in the Alaska Range and the Canadian Rockies. He died from falling into a crevasse while descending the South Buttress of Denali on May 21, 1992 while guiding clients Bob Hoffman and Nelson Max. He is most noted for the first ascent of the Emperor Face on Mount Robson with Jim Logan, and for three routes in the Alaska Range, the East Face of The Moose's Tooth, the Moonflower Buttress on Mount Hunter, and a one-day solo of Denali's Cassin Ridge. Climber Conrad Anker credits Stump as an influential climbing mentor in the film Meru.
Mount Hugh Neave is named for Hugh Neave (1909-1988) who was a mountaineer, rock climber and backcountry explorer of Wells Gray Park from 1966 to 1987. He was a latecomer among the explorers of Wells Gray Park, but he was drawn by the scenery and the challenge of mountaineering, rather than by the wealth of mining, trapping or guiding. In 1966, he made his first expedition to the Huntley-Buchanan Ridge north of Azure Lake and was a regular visitor to those peaks for the next 20 years. In 1972, Neave and Peter Cowan of New Zealand attempted to climb Mount Hugh Neave via the Hobson Glacier east of the peak.
Harold Drasdo (21 February 1930 – 3 September 2015) was an English rock climber, writer and educationalist. Drasdo was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He began rock climbing just after World War II and became a founding member of a loose association of young climbers from the area who came to be known as "the Bradford Lads". Active throughout the United Kingdom, particularly the gritstone edges of Yorkshire and Derbyshire, the fells of the English Lake District, and the mountains of North Wales. Harold climbed regularly in the late 1940s and 1950s with most of the leading northern rock climbers of the day including Joe Brown and members of the famous Rock and Ice Club.
Presenter to return to Watchdog, BBC News, 15 April 2009 It was incorrectly reported in several newspapers at the time that Bradbury had to repay £20,000 worth of Air Miles – in fact her account (and several others) had been tampered with by an employee who was later arrested and charged. In April 2009 it was announced that Bradbury would present the relaunched primetime CountryfileCountryfile peak-time move sparks ageism row, Guardian.co.uk, 28 November 2008 with Matt Baker.Presenter O'Reilly seeks BBC 'ageism' compensation, BBC News, 2 February 2010 Anne Robinson returned to Watchdog after an eight-year absence.Anne Robinson returns to Watchdog, BBC News, 11 May 2009 In August 2007, Bradbury presented Ultimate Britain – Climbing on BBC One, with rock climber Tim Emmett.
Carolynn Marie "Lynn" Hill (born January 3, 1961) is a U.S. rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competitive sport climbers in the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she is famous for making the first free ascent of the difficult sheer rock face of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, and for repeating it the next year in less than 24 hours. She has been described as both one of the best female climbers in the world and one of the best climbers of all time. One of the first successful women in the sport, Hill shaped rock climbing for women and became a public spokesperson, helping it gain wider popularity and arguing for sex equality.
Mountaineer Nigel Vardy in hospital after suffering frostbite when benighted on Denali in 1999. His nose, fingers and toes were subsequently amputated. Several notable cases of frostbite include: Captain Lawrence Oates, an English army captain and Antarctic explorer who in 1912 died of complications of frostbite; noted American rock climber Hugh Herr, who in 1982 lost both legs below the knee to frostbite after being stranded on Mount Washington (New Hampshire) in a blizzard; Beck Weathers, a survivor of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster who lost his nose and hands to frostbite; Scottish mountaineer Jamie Andrew, who in 1999 had all four limbs amputated due to sepsis from frostbite sustained after becoming trapped for four nights whilst climbing Les Droites in the Mont Blanc massif.
The first is the idea that although environmental stresses have theoretically been believed to guide or dictate the changes in the soma (physical body), the introduction of new stresses do not automatically result in the physical changes necessary for survival as suggested by original evolutionary theory. In fact the introduction of these stresses can greatly weaken the organism. An example that he gives is the sheltering of a sick person from the weather or the fact that someone who works in an office would have a hard time working as a rock climber and vice versa. The second position states that though "the economics of flexibility has a logical structure-each successive demand upon flexibility fractioning the set of available possibilities".
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer KCMG (1860–1929) a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist was born in Stretford, as were ABC's lead singer Martin Fry, rock climber Derek Hersey and television actor John Comer, best known for his role as café owner Sid in the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. A number of Manchester United players, including some of those who died in the Munich air disaster of February 1958, lived in lodgings at 19 Gorse Avenue. A blue plaque was unveiled at the house by former lodger and Munich survivor Sir Bobby Charlton in recognition of the house's association with Manchester United. The owner of the house during the 1950s was Margaret Watson, but by the time of the plaque's unveiling more than 50 years later it was occupied by a different family.
The now-highest Carstensz Pyramid summit was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (of Seven Years in Tibet fame, and climber of the Eiger North Face) with three other expedition members – the New Zealand mountaineer Philip Temple, the Australian rock climber Russell Kippax, and the Dutch patrol officer Albertus (Bert) Huizenga. Temple had previously led an expedition into the area and pioneered the access route to the mountains.Philip Temple Account of first ascent When Indonesia took control of the province in 1963, the peak was renamed 'Poentja Soekarno' (Simplified Indonesian: Puncak Sukarno) or Sukarno Peak, after the first President of Indonesia; later this was changed to Puncak Jaya. Puncak means peak or mountain and Jaya means 'victory', 'victorious' or 'glorious'.
Rock climber Chuck Pratt bivouacking during the first ascent of the Salathé Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley in September 1961. A bivouac shelter is any of a variety of improvised camp site, or shelter that is usually of a temporary nature, used especially by soldiers, or persons engaged in backpacking, scouting, or mountain climbing. It may often refer to sleeping in the open with a bivouac sack, but it may also refer to a shelter constructed of natural materials like a structure of branches to form a frame, which is then covered with leaves, ferns, and similar material for waterproofing and duff (leaf litter) for insulation. Modern bivouacs often involve the use of one or two man tents, but may also be without tents or full cover.
Henry Barber in Colorado in 1975 Henry Barber on first ascent of Savage Journey at Lost World, Mt. Wellington, Tasmania, 1975 Henry Barber and Lyle Closs on first free ascent of Incipience at Coles Bay, Tasmania, 1975 Henry Barber (born 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American rock climber and ice climber who rose to prominence in the 1970s. Known by the nickname "Hot Henry", Barber was an advocate of clean climbing, a prolific first ascenscionist and free soloist. He was one of the first American rock climbers to travel widely to climb in different countries. Barber was one of the first "professional" American rock climbers, supporting himself as a sales representative for outdoor equipment companies including Chouinard Equipment and Patagonia, and by giving lectures and slide shows.
On season 5 (2013) of American Ninja Warrior she became the first woman to qualify to compete in a City Finals course (although she did not complete the qualifier course). In season 6 (2014) of American Ninja Warrior she could not compete because she had injured a knee. In season 7 (2015), she appeared at Stage One in Las Vegas but she could not make it up the Warped Wall. In season 8, in the Los Angeles qualifying round, she became the first woman in American Ninja Warrior history to make it up the new 14 1/2-foot Warped Wall and moved on to the city finals along with professional rock climber Natalie Duran. This was the first time two women made it into the Top 30.
Once one of the best rock climbers in his college years, Yong-nam (Jo Jong-suk) is now a grown man, who is without a job and forced to live with his parents just to get by. Yong-nam is constantly reminded of this fact by his older sister Jung-hyun, who urges him to neaten up and make an impression at their mother's upcoming 70th birthday festivities. For his mother's birthday, Yong-nam insists they should celebrate it at the Cloud Garden, with Yong-nam secretly knowing that his old crush and fellow ex-rock climber Eui-joo (Im Yoon-ah) is working there. Yong- nam acts surprised to see Eui-joo and in order to impress her, he lies to her and claims that he now has a successful career, much to her surprise.
Silence, , in 2017 Ondra in 2009 at Imst Adam Ondra (born February 5, 1993) is a Czech professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing and bouldering. Rock & Ice magazine described Ondra in 2013 as a prodigy and the leading climber of his generation, Ondra is the only male athlete to have won World Championship titles in both disciplines in the same year (2014). He is also the only male athlete to have won the World Cup series in both disciplines (lead climbing in 2009, 2015 and 2019, and bouldering in 2010). Ondra started climbing at the age of 6. At age 13, he climbed his first route graded . Rock & Ice reported that by 2011, Ondra was "onsighting 5.14c’s by the handful", and by 2013 had "more or less repeated every hard route in the world—easily".
Bachar would soon establish himself as the world's leading solo rock climber. In 1977, Long and Bachar toured the Western States, repeating most of John Gill's notorious boulder problems at Horse Tooth Reservoir, Ft. Collins, Split Rocks, Estes Park, the Badlands, Pueblo (all in Colorado), and at the Needles of South Dakota. Long's two seminal photo articles, "Pumping Sandstone," in 1976, and "Pumping Granite," in 1977, both featured in Climbing Magazine, inspired an entire generation of free climbers throughout the US and Western Europe, and helped establish bouldering in general, and "High Balling" (high bouldering sans rope) in particular, as a valid and extreme expression of traditional climbing. Long's 1973 ascent of Paisano Overhang (5.12c) at Suicide Rock in Southern California, helped to firmly establish the 5.12 grade and was likely the most technically difficult free climb in the world at that time.
Stephanie "Steph" Davis (born November 4, 1973) is an American rock climber, BASE jumper, and wingsuit flyer. She is one of the world's leading climbers, having completed some of the hardest routes in the world. She is the first woman to have soloed a 5.11 grade climb, the first woman to summit all the peaks of the Fitzroy Range in Patagonia, the second woman to free climb El Capitan in a day, the first woman to free climb the Salathė Wall on El Capitan, the first woman to free solo The Diamond on Longs Peak in Colorado, and the first woman to summit Torre Egger. Davis was married to fellow climbers and BASE jumpers Dean Potter and Mario Richard (both of whom died wingsuiting), and currently to sky-diving instructor, and flyer and jumper Ian Mitchard.
The youngest of five siblings of a Mennonite family from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hugh Herr was a prodigy rock climber: by age eight, he had scaled the face of the Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies, and by 17 he was acknowledged to be one of the best climbers in the United States. In January 1982, after having ascended a difficult technical ice route in Huntington Ravine on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, Herr and fellow climber Jeff Batzer were caught in a blizzard and became disoriented, finally descending into the Great Gulf where they passed three nights in degree temperatures. By the time they were rescued, the climbers had suffered severe frostbite. Both of Herr's legs had to be amputated below the knees; his companion lost his lower left leg, the toes on his right foot, and the fingers on his right hand.
Lai Chi Wai () is a rock climber, sport climber, and motivational speaker from Hong Kong. He is a four-time champion of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships and the world’s first Chinese winner of the X-Game’s extreme sports. In 2011, he got into a serious traffic accident that left him paraplegic. On December 9, 2016, upon the 5th anniversary of the car accident, Lai climbed up Lion Rock in a wheelchair, and became the first Chinese athlete to be nominated for the Laureus World’s Best Sporting Moment of the month, which he lost to a viral video which showed a packed sports stadium of 70,000 people in Iowa turning and waving to children in an adjacent hospital. Netizens, touched by Lai’s achievement, said he embodied the “spirit of Lion Rock”, which has come to symbolize Hong Kong’s can-do spirit in the midst of adversities.

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