Catherine Destivelle (born 24 July 1960) is a French rock climber and mountaineer who is considered one of the greatest and most important female climbers...

milestones (Weed Killer), and did the iconic solo of Separate Reality. Catherine Destivelle – a leading female climber of the late 1980s, who made iconic free...

been used by solo alpine climbers, including by French alpinist Catherine Destivelle, and Italian alpinist Walter Bonatti. Rope-solo climbing techniques...

Library. ISBN 0-375-75506-3 Destivelle, Catherine (2003). Ascensions, Arthaud (French) (ISBN 2-7003-9594-8) Destivelle, Catherine (2015). Rock Queen, Hayloft...

the 20th-century but by the 1980s, climbers such as Lynn Hill and Catherine Destivelle were closing the gap to the standard of routes being climbed by the...

Ian McNaught-Davis and by Pete Crew and Dougal Haston. In 1997, Catherine Destivelle made a solo ascent of the Old Man of Hoy; she did so while four months...

achieved in free climbing style, again on the Yugoslav Route, by Catherine Destivelle (with Jeff Lowe, and David Breashears filming). In the summer of...

by Catherine Destivelle. 7c+/8a (5.13a/b) : Fleur de Rocaille – Mouriès, (FRA) – 1985 – First-ever female ascent of an 7c+/8a route, by Catherine Destivelle;...

remove the protection they placed earlier. In 1992, French climber Catherine Destivelle used a self-locking device to rope-solo the first part of the traditional...

Bernhagen. Beth Rodden, leading American traditional rock climber Catherine Destivelle, French alpinist "New Directions: The Brette Harrington Profile"...