| From | USA πΊπΈ |
| Date of birth | 3rd Jan 1961 |
| Age | 65 years old |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 157 cm |
| Climbing | |
| Hardest Boulder (Worked) | 7B |
| Hardest Sport (Worked) | 8b+ |
| Hardest Sport (Onsight) | 8a |
| Hardest Trad (Worked) | E9 |
| Hardest Trad (Onsight) | E6 |
| World Cups | |
| π₯ | 1 |
| π₯ | 3 |
| π₯ | 1 |
| Appearances | 10 |
Lynn Hill is one of the most accomplished rock climbers of all time. Her pioneering ascents in the 1980s and '90s culminated in the first free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan β one of the most coveted challenges in climbing β in 1993. The infamous Changing Corners pitch is a masterclass of technical climbing which continues to challenge the very best today. Hill returned the following year to complete the whole climb in under 24 hours.
Hill was the first woman to climb 7c, 7c+ and 8b+, and was at top of the comp game throughout the 1980s and early '90s.
I have been all over the world and have had the fortune of doing things with many special people, some famous, some anonymous. But the biggest little hero Iβve ever known is Lynn Hill. The rest of us are just holding her rope. [2]
Hill has experienced only one major accident in her climbing career. On May 9, 1989, she fell during a climb in Buoux, after forgetting to tie in, she fell 85 ft (25 m) into a tree, and was knocked unconscious, dislocated her left elbow and broke a bone in her foot. She had been training hard for the World Cup and had to stop competing for a few months to recover; she was devastated to miss the first World Cup in the sport. However, only six weeks after her fall, she was back climbing.
[1] Half Dome, 1977
[2] https://www.climbandmore.com/climbers/lynn-hill/
[3] Portrait by Dean Fidelman, 1997 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr3uphIJ2Gy/
[4] Interview with Natalie Berry for UKClimbing.com March 2017 https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/lynn_hill_-_climbing_free-9151
[5] Interview with Hannah Morris, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE9_oAPRTsE
[6] https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pPhmAHHd46EAjdQkfb09Z?
[7] https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xtdsDPQpUgz0nVde4a7Fs?
| From | USA πΊπΈ |
| Date of birth | 3rd Jan 1961 |
| Age | 65 years old |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 157 cm |
| Climbing | |
| Hardest Boulder (Worked) | 7B |
| Hardest Sport (Worked) | 8b+ |
| Hardest Sport (Onsight) | 8a |
| Hardest Trad (Worked) | E9 |
| Hardest Trad (Onsight) | E6 |
| World Cups | |
| π₯ | 1 |
| π₯ | 3 |
| π₯ | 1 |
| Appearances | 10 |
Lynn Hill is one of the most accomplished rock climbers of all time. Her pioneering ascents in the 1980s and '90s culminated in the first free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan β one of the most coveted challenges in climbing β in 1993. The infamous Changing Corners pitch is a masterclass of technical climbing which continues to challenge the very best today. Hill returned the following year to complete the whole climb in under 24 hours.
Hill was the first woman to climb 7c, 7c+ and 8b+, and was at top of the comp game throughout the 1980s and early '90s.
I have been all over the world and have had the fortune of doing things with many special people, some famous, some anonymous. But the biggest little hero Iβve ever known is Lynn Hill. The rest of us are just holding her rope. [2]
Hill has experienced only one major accident in her climbing career. On May 9, 1989, she fell during a climb in Buoux, after forgetting to tie in, she fell 85 ft (25 m) into a tree, and was knocked unconscious, dislocated her left elbow and broke a bone in her foot. She had been training hard for the World Cup and had to stop competing for a few months to recover; she was devastated to miss the first World Cup in the sport. However, only six weeks after her fall, she was back climbing.
[1] Half Dome, 1977
[2] https://www.climbandmore.com/climbers/lynn-hill/
[3] Portrait by Dean Fidelman, 1997 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr3uphIJ2Gy/
[4] Interview with Natalie Berry for UKClimbing.com March 2017 https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/lynn_hill_-_climbing_free-9151
[5] Interview with Hannah Morris, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE9_oAPRTsE
[6] https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pPhmAHHd46EAjdQkfb09Z?
[7] https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xtdsDPQpUgz0nVde4a7Fs?