George and Joanne Urioste

Joanne Urioste and George Urioste, born around 1952 and 1937, are American rock climbers who made more than a hundred first ascents in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. George was born in Chile to a Bolivian father, holds citizenship in both countries, became a Jesuit priest and moved to the United States to study at Cornell University, where he met Joanne, a Brooklyn native studying life science. They married in 1974 and moved to Las Vegas, where George taught anthropology and linguistics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Their long multi-pitch routes, among them Crimson Chrysalis, Epinephrine and Levitation 29, follow striking lines and were made relatively safe by placing bolts, which some local climbers opposed. They stopped climbing for ten years from 1986, then returned to establish further routes up to 2400 feet long, and Joanne wrote the 1984 guidebook The Red Rocks of Southern Nevada.