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Janja Garnbret (born 12 March 1999) is a Slovenian professional rock climber who specializes in sport climbing and competition climbing.She has won multiple competition lead climbing and competition bouldering events, two Olympic gold medals, and is widely regarded as the greatest competition climber of all time.
Catherine was the eldest of six (four sisters Florence, Sophie, Martine, and Claire, and one brother Hyacinthe). Her father was an amateur climber and mountaineer. As a young teenager, her family moved to Paris, France, where she attended the Lycée Corot in Savigny-sur-Orge. [2] [3]
Her triumph was marred when both the Barrards died during the descent, becoming two of 13 climbers to die on K2 that summer. [9] A memorial stone at the entrance to the II LO (The Secondary School #2) in Wrocław. Rutkiewicz's goal was to become the first woman to reach the summits of all 14 of the eight-thousanders. During her climbing career ...
Raboutou is No. 2 in the world, and Garnbret, the reigning Olympic gold medalist, is No. 1, according to the International Federation of Sport Climbing. Off the wall, they hold the title of friends.
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]
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.
She has free soloed up to 5.11a (6b+), [4] and was the first woman to summit all the peaks of the Fitzroy Range in Patagonia, the second woman to free climb El Capitan in a day, the first woman to free climb the Salathė Wall on El Capitan, the first woman to free solo The Diamond on Longs Peak in Colorado, and the first woman to summit Torre ...
The second summit team, Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz and Vera Watson, died during their climb. After the event, Blum wrote a book about her experience on Annapurna, called Annapurna: A Woman's Place. [8] She led the first expedition to climb Bhrigupanth in the Indian Himalayas, leading a team of Indian and American women.