Angie Payne

Angie Payne, born Angela Payne on November 6, 1984 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an American rock climber who specializes in bouldering. She swept the 2003 to 2004 American Bouldering Series while in her first year of college at the University of Colorado Boulder, and won the overall Professional Climbers Association championship that season. On August 17, 2010 she made the first confirmed ascent of an 8B (V13) boulder by a woman, with The Automator in Rocky Mountain National Park, and she repeated the grade in 2014 with Freaks of the Industry. She also climbed the spire of Poumaka in French Polynesia in 2015 and has spoken publicly about eating disorders in climbing.