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
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.
El Capitan
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El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith is about 3,000 feet from base to summit along its ta
Lynn Hill
…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…
Southwest face (left, in light) and southeast face (right, in shade) of El Capitan from Yosemite Valley; the Nose lies between the two faces
1864 photo of El Capitan by Charles Leander Weed
William Henry Jackson's 1899 photograph of El Capitan
El Capitan viewed from Tunnel View