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Anna Czerwińska (10 July 1949 – 31 January 2023) [1] was a Polish climber. She is known for being the then-oldest woman to summit Mount Everest , doing so at the age of 50. She also published several books about mountaineering.
Gammelgaard is the 35th woman, and first Scandinavian woman, to climb Mount Everest, [1] reaching the summit via the South East Ridge on 10 May 1996, as part of Scott Fischer's tragic expedition. Her book Climbing High (1998) recounts the 1996 Everest disaster when a storm took the lives of Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, and six other climbers. Her ...
Lhakpa Sherpa (Nepali: Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) [1] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber.She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most by any woman in the world. [2] [3] Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. [4]
Laura Rogora (born 28 April 2001) is an Italian rock climber who specializes in sport climbing and in competition climbing (and competition lead climbing in particular). In 2021, she became the third-ever female climber in history to redpoint a 9b (5.15b)-graded sport climbing route, with her ascent of Erebor in Italy.
In the lead round Raboutou's 72.0 points were enough to move her into first place with 156.0 points and only two climbers to go, guaranteeing her first Olympic medal.
National Geographic noted that at the height of her career in the early to mid-2000s, "She was also climbing two or three grades harder than any other woman". [14] A 2017 Climbing magazine review of the history of women's climbing noted that "In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Basque Josune Bereziartu became the world’s best female sport ...
Margo Hayes (born February 11, 1998) [1] is an American professional rock climber from Boulder, Colorado.In 2016, she won both the competition bouldering and the competition lead climbing events at the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Guangzhou ().
Lisa Rands (born October 21, 1975) is an American rock climber.She is known for her bouldering for which in 2002, she became the first American female to win IFSC World Cup bouldering competitions, and topped the IFSC world boulder rankings in 2002.