Lynn Hill

Lynn Hill is an American rock climber, born in 1961, who is regarded as one of the best climbers in the history of the sport. She made the first free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley and repeated it the next year in under a day. Between 1986 and 1992 she was one of the world's leading competition climbers, winning more than thirty international titles including five at the Arco Rock Master, and she was the first woman to redpoint routes graded 5.12d, 5.13a and 5.14a. Raised in Southern California, she was a gymnast and runner as a child, and she later wrote the autobiography Climbing Free and became a public voice for women in climbing.