She also took a 20 meters fall and suffered a compound fracture of one leg and fractured spine. She then started a family with a fellow climber and became mostly a writer and lecturer.
Hello Chatherine I admire your great free climbing. You always approached climbing, the mountain, with awe, respect and humility. With the right attitude. Thank you very much. I wish you all the best. Best regards Raphael Wellig
Alex Honnold to date is the best free solo rock climber. Catherine Destivelle is one of the very rare rock free solo climbers who also excel at ice climbing, mixt climbing, high mountaineering. Only area that challenges her is the "death zone" in Himalaya. Her records and accomplishments in alpinism put her up there with very few legends like Reinhold Messner, Ueli Steck, Jeff Lowe...
There are and were a lot of people at this level they just dont get the publicity. Edlinger , Destivelle , Auer, Potter....etc and thats just free solo. You go into alpinism and you can easily find a hundred names and more. Ueli Stecks Solo ascent of Anapurna South was imo one of the greatest feats of alpinism and climbing ever and there are more. Problem with Honnold is that most americans only aknowledge their own kind and now with this pathetic heroe movie its all zhats talked about. He is great no doubt but not singular
akseli.....climbing on a level like Catherine or Honnold there just isnt the best....they are just the great few that can. They are just amazing people with such a focus ordinary people just cant imagine.
Lynn Hill is slightly better at competition climbing, she also records a higher grade, but it is really hard to say Hill is really better at rock climbing in general, because unlike Hill, Destivelle is also a true free soloist, one of the very best ever (up there with the best men, Honnold, Potter, Huber, Bachar...), and because their style is quite different and equally beautiful in their own way. What makes Catherine Destivelle undoubtedly the best climber, is that she also is a true alpinist, which Lynn Hill is not. Catherine has everything, completely versatile, no other climber can claim to have everything and to be a competition climbing world champion too, and to be also the glamorous TV sports star she used to be.
In the history of sports duels and rivalries, the Destivelle vs. Hill story is one of the most beautiful and inspiring. These two champions and exceptional climbers have always respected and liked each other, to this day they are still friends. A great page of mountaineering and rock climbing history, and indeed of sports history.
Lyn hills free climbing (roped) all free ascent of the "Nose" on El Capitan in Yosemite valley is considered by the elite European mountain climbing aristocracy as "the greatest achievement in mountaineering of the 20th century" Destivle was a great free soloist. Your talking orders of magnitude that Lyn Hill accomplished compared to Destville Lyn never was interested in free solo climbing. She liked working routes that required lots of falls. Hill was a sportswomen that was a gymnast as a teenager until she got into climbing. Then she shaked up with Largo and she fast tracked into the best of the best. At 16 she weighed 85 pounds and could bench press 150 3 reps! For the time it was Olympic grade strength. She still climbs at a ridiculous level which is amazing in itself. I was kicking it in Curry Camp in Yosemite and her and a younger lady obviously family sat down near me. I smiled and nodded to Lyn and she smiled back. That was a special moment for me that is.
First free climb and in under 24 hours. The last part is as important as the first it was over two decades until that feat was repeated. "Greatest Mountaineering accomplishment of the 20th century. Destivle was a great climber. Big difference.
She also took a 20 meters fall and suffered a compound fracture of one leg and fractured spine. She then started a family with a fellow climber and became mostly a writer and lecturer.
I loved to see Cathrine again, after a long time. I was part of the expedition in Pakistan when she climbed Trango Towers in Pakistan.
Hello Chatherine
I admire your great free climbing. You always approached climbing, the mountain, with awe, respect and humility. With the right attitude. Thank you very much.
I wish you all the best.
Best regards
Raphael Wellig
she is amazing
He is
Alex Honnold to date is the best free solo rock climber. Catherine Destivelle is one of the very rare rock free solo climbers who also excel at ice climbing, mixt climbing, high mountaineering. Only area that challenges her is the "death zone" in Himalaya. Her records and accomplishments in alpinism put her up there with very few legends like Reinhold Messner, Ueli Steck, Jeff Lowe...
There are and were a lot of people at this level they just dont get the publicity. Edlinger , Destivelle , Auer, Potter....etc and thats just free solo. You go into alpinism and you can easily find a hundred names and more. Ueli Stecks Solo ascent of Anapurna South was imo one of the greatest feats of alpinism and climbing ever and there are more. Problem with Honnold is that most americans only aknowledge their own kind and now with this pathetic heroe movie its all zhats talked about. He is great no doubt but not singular
fantastic video fantastic women fantastic climber i saw her win the snowbird utah climbing competion
It was for a BBC programme in 1991.
Love your french accent marvellous Catherine!!
amazing!
I like her
akseli.....climbing on a level like Catherine or Honnold there just isnt the best....they are just the great few that can. They are just amazing people with such a focus ordinary people just cant imagine.
Theres probably 5-10 people on that level shes def... up there with all the men.
What a woman......fantastic, no fear.
It's a d u d e who is protected so I have to disguise this
Thought that was Dan Osman. -dont mean to sound sexistic, just 'heard' that over the net... -Full credit for Carherine Destivelle!!!
참으로 좋다
불필요한 동작이
머뭇거림이 없다
참 대단한 클라이머다
@Shashen She's still alive.
fucking fantastic!!!
@HosteDenis ,,, my bad,,,i heard she died. Went to look it up now and you are right. Welcome back Catherine, now go out and climb a mountain.
would someone know where i can find these "numerous films"?
On the internet ya big balloon! Try somewhere like, oh idk... Wikipedia, IMDB... Google her name!
I would be to scared to finde spiders throw the rocks..
@mousavsm Or is she just the Best Climber that has ever lived...?
Who is the better climber, Catherine Destivelle or Lynn Hill ?
Lynn Hill is slightly better at competition climbing, she also records a higher grade, but it is really hard to say Hill is really better at rock climbing in general, because unlike Hill, Destivelle is also a true free soloist, one of the very best ever (up there with the best men, Honnold, Potter, Huber, Bachar...), and because their style is quite different and equally beautiful in their own way. What makes Catherine Destivelle undoubtedly the best climber, is that she also is a true alpinist, which Lynn Hill is not. Catherine has everything, completely versatile, no other climber can claim to have everything and to be a competition climbing world champion too, and to be also the glamorous TV sports star she used to be.
In the history of sports duels and rivalries, the Destivelle vs. Hill story is one of the most beautiful and inspiring. These two champions and exceptional climbers have always respected and liked each other, to this day they are still friends. A great page of mountaineering and rock climbing history, and indeed of sports history.
Lyn hills free climbing (roped) all free ascent of the "Nose" on El Capitan in Yosemite valley is considered by the elite European mountain climbing aristocracy as "the greatest achievement in mountaineering of the 20th century" Destivle was a great free soloist. Your talking orders of magnitude that Lyn Hill accomplished compared to Destville Lyn never was interested in free solo climbing. She liked working routes that required lots of falls. Hill was a sportswomen that was a gymnast as a teenager until she got into climbing. Then she shaked up with Largo and she fast tracked into the best of the best. At 16 she weighed 85 pounds and could bench press 150 3 reps! For the time it was Olympic grade strength. She still climbs at a ridiculous level which is amazing in itself. I was kicking it in Curry Camp in Yosemite and her and a younger lady obviously family sat down near me. I smiled and nodded to Lyn and she smiled back. That was a special moment for me that is.
First free climb and in under 24 hours. The last part is as important as the first it was over two decades until that feat was repeated. "Greatest Mountaineering accomplishment of the 20th century. Destivle was a great climber. Big difference.
Hill was such a great climber...
...and Destivelle was the only one able to beat Hill.
:-)
4:55 ahhhh yeahhhh
RIP
Very pretty.
in complete owe
Блин мне даже смотреть страшно 👍🌹❤️
2.27..... cringe