Lynn Hill
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Carolynn Marie Hill is an American rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competition climbers, traditional climbers, sport climbers, and boulderers 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...
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Hill spent her earliest years climbing in Joshua Tree National Park.
Hill became a world-renowned climber in The Gunks. (Another person pictured)
Hill fell 72 ft (22 m) while climbing at the cliffs at Buoux, Haute Provence, but was back on the rock only six weeks later.
The Nose on El Capitan has a 2,900-foot (900 m) vertical gain.
Hill videoing a climber at Hueco Tanks as part of Lynn Hill Climbing Camp
Hill in 2006
Hill made the first female ascent of Yosemite's Midnight Lightning in 1998. (Others pictured)In their own words 5
I do not climb to put myself in real danger like that. I climb because it is a lifestyle. It is fun.
Eva Krchova, "Lynn Hill Interview", eMontana (May 2022)
It is who I am. Who I have always been. I have embraced this attitude as a young girl. They used to call me a tomboy when I was small.
I just went ahead and followed what was true for me because it was sincere. I figured out that people were wrong judging me.
Filmography 21
Valley Uprising
Fine Lines
Extreme
Here to Climb
Best Of E.O.F.T. No. 8
Vertical Frontier
Petzl RocTrip China 2011
La Dura Dura
Jeff Lowe's Metanoia
The Center Of The Universe
Break on Through
First Ascent
The Future of Climbing
Moving Over Stone
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground
Origins: Obe & Ashima
The Fanatic Search 2 - A Girl Thing
Climbing the Nose
Rocky Mountain Highball
N.G.Extreme
The Fundamentals of ClimbingActors from United States 6
About this person
Carolynn Marie Hill is an American rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competition climbers, traditional climbers, sport climbers, and boulderers 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 in the history of the sport. Hill was the first-ever female in history to redpoint a 5.12d (7c), 5.13a (7c+) and 5.14a (8b+) graded sport climbing route. Hill shaped rock climbing for women and became a public spokesperson, helping it gain wider popularity and arguing for sex equality. Hill has publicized climbing by appearing on television shows and documentaries and writing an autobiography, Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World.
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