In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent, is the first successful documented climb to the top of a mountain peak or the top of a particular climbing route. Early 20th-century mountaineers and cl
Jonathan Siegrist on the first free ascent (FFA) of Spectrum 5.14c (8c+), Red Rocks, Nevada.
Danish climbers Kristoffer Szilas and Martin Ploug (pictured) about to summit the unclimbed Ren Zhong Feng (5800m), in China via their new route Lost to Ice (grade TD M4, WI4, 1300m)
Adam Ondra making the first redpoint ascent of Silence, the world's first 9c (5.15d) sport climb.
Josune Bereziartu on the FFA and FFFA of Yeah Man (8b+ 5.14a, 300-metres, 9 pitches), on the Grand Pfad in Bern, Switzerland
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
First ascent
…first free solo ascent of Freerider in Yosemite. First female free ascent (abbreviated FFFA). Important female climbers emerged in the 1980s including Lynn Hill and Catherine Destivelle and climbing journals began to chronicle milestones in female first free ascents. In some cases, an FFFA is also an FFA, the…
Hill in Stavanger in 2015
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.