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This is a list of climbers and mountaineers who are notable for their activities in mountaineering (including alpine climbing), rock climbing (including aid climbing, free climbing, bouldering, speed climbing and competition climbing) or in ice climbing (including mixed climbing
From the outset, Sharma was considered prodigy in the climbing world. [10] [11] [12] At age 14, he won the adult 1996 US Open Bouldering Nationals, [1] and a year later aged 15, he freed Boone Speed's project Necessary Evil 5.14c (8c+) in the Virgin River Gorge, [12] the hardest sport climb in North America at the time.
Carolynn Marie Hill (born January 3, 1961) [2] is an American rock climber.Widely regarded as one of the leading competition climbers, traditional climbers (and particularly big wall 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 ...
In a single night, climbers compete in: 1) a speed round, essentially a race to the top of a set route that’s the same in gyms around the world; 2) a bouldering round in which climbers have to ...
Jimmy Webb (born November 7, 1987) is an American professional rock climber specializing in bouldering. He is one of a handful of climbers who have climbed the boulder grade V16 (8C+). Webb was the men's winner of the 2013 Psicobloc Masters Series held in Park City, Utah . [ 1 ]
A 21-year-old rock climber fell to his death last weekend in Wyoming’s Devils Tower National Monument, while his partner was later rescued, authorities announced.
The photographer’s new book, “The Art of Climbing,” features a selection of these images, alongside more than 200 other striking shots of fellow climbers ascending towering and complex rock ...
The youngest of five siblings of a Mennonite family from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hugh Herr was a prodigy rock climber: by age 8, he had scaled the face of the 11,627-foot (3,544 m) Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies, and by 17 he was acknowledged to be one of the best climbers in the United States. [1]