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...
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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...
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been used by solo alpine climbers, including by French alpinist Catherine Destivelle, and Italian alpinist Walter Bonatti. Rope-solo climbing techniques...
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Library. ISBN 0-375-75506-3 Destivelle, Catherine (2003). Ascensions, Arthaud (French) (ISBN 2-7003-9594-8) Destivelle, Catherine (2015). Rock Queen, Hayloft...
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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...
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achieved in free climbing style, again on the Yugoslav Route, by Catherine Destivelle (with Jeff Lowe, and David Breashears filming). In the summer of...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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Bernhagen. Beth Rodden, leading American traditional rock climber Catherine Destivelle, French alpinist "New Directions: The Brette Harrington Profile"...
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