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    Catherine Destivelle (born 24 July 1960) is a French rock climber and mountaineer who is considered one of the greatest and most important female climbers...
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    milestones (Weed Killer), and did the iconic solo of Separate Reality. Catherine Destivelle – a leading female climber of the late 1980s, who made iconic free...
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    been used by solo alpine climbers, including by French alpinist Catherine Destivelle, and Italian alpinist Walter Bonatti. Rope-solo climbing techniques...
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    achieved in free climbing style, again on the Yugoslav Route, by Catherine Destivelle (with Jeff Lowe, and David Breashears filming). In the summer of...
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    the 20th-century but by the 1980s, climbers such as Lynn Hill and Catherine Destivelle were closing the gap to the standard of routes being climbed by the...
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  • Bernhagen. Beth Rodden, leading American traditional rock climber Catherine Destivelle, French alpinist "New Directions: The Brette Harrington Profile"...
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    remove the protection they placed earlier. In 1992, French climber Catherine Destivelle used a self-locking device to rope-solo the first part of the traditional...
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    Library. ISBN 0-375-75506-3 Destivelle, Catherine (2003). Ascensions, Arthaud (French) (ISBN 2-7003-9594-8) Destivelle, Catherine (2015). Rock Queen, Hayloft...
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    Ian McNaught-Davis and by Pete Crew and Dougal Haston. In 1997, Catherine Destivelle made a solo ascent of the Old Man of Hoy; she did so while four months...
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    Wolfgang Güllich, Alexander Huber, Chris Sharma, Adam Ondra, Lynn Hill, Catherine Destivelle, and Janja Garnbret. Climbing became an Olympic sport for the first...
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    by Catherine Destivelle. 7c+/8a (5.13a/b) : Fleur de Rocaille – Mouriès, (FRA) – 1985 – First-ever female ascent of an 7c+/8a route, by Catherine Destivelle;...
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  • Point, Ontario, to North East, Pennsylvania, in 17 hours. 1994: Catherine Destivelle becomes the first woman to complete the winter free solo of the "north...
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  • Rock Queen, Rock 'n' Roll Queen, or similar titles, may refer to: Catherine Destivelle (born 1960; "Rock Queen"), French rock climber Ella (Malaysian singer)...
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    it would be "suicidal" in the deteriorating weather conditions. Catherine Destivelle, French alpine climber List of deaths on K2 The Last Mountain (2021...
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    Rolando Garibotti, Alexander and Thomas Huber, fr:Yannick Graziani, Catherine Destivelle, George Lowe, and Leslie Fuczko, former president of the fr:Groupe...
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    southwest face (not reaching the main summit), Erik Decamp (France), Catherine Destivelle (France) 1996: 9 October, Anatoli Boukreev completed a solo ascent...
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    List of grade milestones in rock climbing History of rock climbing Catherine Destivelle, one of the greatest female sport climbers of the 1980s Lynn Hill...
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    dominated in the 1980s by American climber Lynn Hill and French climber Catherine Destivelle who set new female grade milestones and also competed against each...
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    became the first alpinist to climb the "Trilogy" in winter, and solo; Catherine Destivelle was the first female to complete the solo winter Trilogy in 1992–1994...
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    for style and speed. She lost to Catherine Destivelle in a "disputed ruling" but won in the following year. Destivelle in her autobiography, reckons she...
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    ascent of the eponymous Bonatti Pillar and Catherine Destivelle's 1991 solo of the eponymous Voie Destivelle. El Capitan and Half Dome, Yosemite. The world's...
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    followed the path of earlier female sport climbers like Lynn Hill and Catherine Destivelle, freeing old aid climbing routes into major new multi-pitch traditional...
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    Climbers ISBN 978-1-926855-60-8 Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald Catherine Destivelle Martina Gugglberger (24 April 2016). "Wanda Rutkiewicz – crossing...
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    and their first winners were Stefan Glowacz, Patrick Edlinger and Catherine Destivelle. In 1988–89, the French Federation and Paul Brasset convinced the...
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    route was not repeated solo until 29 years later, in winter 1994 by Catherine Destivelle. Ueli Steck set the record time in climbing the north face (Schmid...
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  • actress 1958 – Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer and coach 1960 – Catherine Destivelle, French rock climber and mountaineer 1961 – Kerry Dixon, English...
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    Important female climbers emerged in the 1980s including Lynn Hill and Catherine Destivelle and climbing journals began to chronicle milestones in female first...
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    climbing in 1997 at age four, inspired by a television broadcast of Catherine Destivelle climbing in Mali. Coxsey was mainly active in competition climbing...
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    John Roskelley 1990 Trango (Nameless) Tower, Yugoslav route with Catherine Destivelle 1991 Metanoia, a new direct route on the Eiger's north face, that...
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    in 2009. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Barbara Zangerl. Catherine Destivelle, all-round French female climber Alexander Huber, all-round Austrian...
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