Lynn Hill
Climbing since the late ‘70s, Lynn Hill has accumulated several firsts for her sport, including the first free ascent of the world famous The Nose route on El Captain – a massive granite monolith in Yosemite National Park that extends nearly 3,000 feet high. However, it is her efforts in promoting gender equality, within and beyond the sport of rock climbing, that she considers her greatest accomplishment, next to the birth of her son of course. Having experienced this discrimination first hand and rather early at the age of 14 when bouldering in Joshua Tree, Hill used this ignorance to fuel her every ascent. The living legend often explains that she was not competing against fellow climbers, men or women, but instead against people’s expectations of what women can do.
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