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Mick Ryan
Trad climber
Kendal, English Lake District
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 10, 2008 - 07:41am PT
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47 year old Lynn Hill completed Chablanke a V11/12 (font 8A/+) boulder problem at Hueco Tanks, Texas a couple of days ago.
The mother of a 5 year old, Owen, Lynn has been at the forefront of climbing since the 1970's including many firsts for a woman. Perhaps the pinnacle of her career was the first free ascent, male or female, of El Capitan's 23 pitch Nose route which she gave 5.13b (8a) although many say 5.14 or 8b+. A year later in 1994 she returned to the Nose and completed the first one day free ascent. In 1991 she was the first woman to climb 5.14a or 8b+ with Masse Critique in Cimai, France.
REPORT WITH VIDEO courtesy of Joe Hedge: http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/older.html?month=12&year=2008#n45499
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Dec 10, 2008 - 12:11pm PT
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bumps to the good news
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Dr. Rock
Ice climber
http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br
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Dec 10, 2008 - 02:25pm PT
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Wow, I thought she did the nose to piss of the guys, and then left the scene completely, cool beans Lynn!
Size what?
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 10, 2008 - 08:44pm PT
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Does this lady ever slow down?
OMG, she's still the goddess of rock!
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Michal Stewart
Trad climber
harrisburgh PA
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Dec 10, 2008 - 09:17pm PT
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smooth....
i have always wanted to (tongue in cheek) ask "So what did Lynn name the route formerly known as "the nose" after her FFA.?" It would just about be criminal, but isn't it the poragitive of the first person or team to choose to or not to rename former aid routes?
just something small that's been rattling around in my head.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
Last >>
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Dec 10, 2008 - 10:57pm PT
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I thought the title said she onsited V11 / 12 and I was all Whoa ! I guess it would depend on how subtle the sequence was tho .
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
In the mountains... somewhere...
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Dec 11, 2008 - 12:12am PT
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But is it really 5.13 if you never get tired? Lynn has such great endurance and really good technique that she makes it all look easy. Congrats to little Lynnie.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Dec 11, 2008 - 12:13am PT
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Bump.......
She's a BAD AZZ!!!!
No question
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10b4me
climber
the gray bands
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Dec 11, 2008 - 12:40am PT
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props to Lynn
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GDavis
Trad climber
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Dec 11, 2008 - 01:16am PT
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Yes you can get lowered off a route after an onsight and it still counts as one. Kind of like if you climbed astroman onsight but had to walk past it on the NDG, you still climbed it onsight, even though you looked at it later. I think that was the question?
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Dec 11, 2008 - 04:54pm PT
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Lynn? Doing something incredible? Nah, that never happens.
(Giggling)
I am just bursting with happiness!
AF
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GDavis
Trad climber
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Dec 11, 2008 - 07:03pm PT
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Yeah I love it when people throw tantrums on TR. shudder.
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