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Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Feb 21, 2008 - 01:44pm PT

Kitty's one.

Catherine Destivelle absolutely.

I've always been blown away by what a well rounded climber Alison Sheets is, besides hard rock, big-walls, and major desert FAs, Alison is skilled on ice and snow as well.
She guided for Donahue in Rocky Mountain.
I have yet to see the video she did with Allison Hargreaves.

But the truth is that there is tons of talent you never hear about. Not everyone plays the self-promotion game.
Nor should they.

Chances are that many of the best are virtually unknown.

#310

Social climber

Telluride, CO

Feb 21, 2008 - 02:03pm PT

To add to Nate's excellent list of top living women mountaineers - a few current Himalaya climbers:
Nives Meroi
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Edume Passiban
Daniele Bernasconi

Not sure I got all the name spelling correct. No real opinion of who is in the top ten. Wanda R was amazing.

Kathy

Mtnmun

Trad climber

Top of the Mountain Mun

Feb 21, 2008 - 02:17pm PT

"City Girl" Acrylic on Canvas

You have to be careful with those City Girl's: Stop, Go, Caution!

Currently working on Country Girl, stay tuned.

cintune

climber

Penn's Woods

Feb 21, 2008 - 02:21pm PT

Alpgirl.

Jim E

climber

Mountain Road

Feb 21, 2008 - 03:10pm PT

Miriam Underhill

Domingo

Trad climber

El Portal, CA

Feb 21, 2008 - 03:15pm PT

Admittedly, I don't know much about female mountaineers, but I do know that Lynn Hill expressly ISN'T one. She's said herself she hates the cold/high altitude stuff and tries to stay out of it as much as she can. It isn't for her.

John Mac

Trad climber

Littleton, CO

Feb 21, 2008 - 03:54pm PT

Lydia Bradey

First solo female ascent of Mt Everest without oxygen, 1988. Many first female ascents in the Southern Alps of NZ.

Nefarius

Big Wall climber

Fresno, CA

Feb 21, 2008 - 04:16pm PT

Just out of curiosity, what has Lynn done in the high altitude world?

10b4me

climber

hanging by a thread

Feb 22, 2008 - 01:06am PT

Just out of curiosity, what has Lynn done in the high altitude world?

Perestroika on the Russian Tower in Kygryzstan, with Greg Child.
also did a route with Alex Lowe in the same area.

Clint Cummins

Trad climber

SF Bay area, CA

Feb 22, 2008 - 02:48am PT

For "mountaineers" (vs. say "alpinists") then the simplest standard is the number of 8000m peaks they have done.
So #310/Kathy's list is best.

Nives MEROI and Gerlinde KALTENBRUNNER with 10 each, then Edurne PASABAN with 9. MEROI and PASABAN have both done K2.

http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/5female8000er.shtml

Female Climbers with 5-14 8000ers

NAME FIRST NAMES S Born NAT 8000ers O2 FIRST LAST LAST UNCLIMBED

1 MEROI Nives f 9/17/1961 It 10 No 17-May-07 Ev KA,MAK,MAN,AN
http://www.nives.alpinizem.net/
On 2/12/08, MEROI broke her leg descending from Makalu after an unsuccessful winter attempt; apparently she will be fine.

2 KALTENBRUNNER Gerlinde f 12/3/1970 Au 10 No 12-Jul-07 BP EV,K2,LH,DH
http://www.gerlinde-kaltenbrunner.at/

3 PASABAN Edurne f 1972 E 9 12-Jul-07 BP KA,MAK,MAN,AN,DHA

4 RUTKIEWICZ Wanda f 2/2/1943 P 8 22-Oct-91 AN MAK,MAN,KA,LHO,DH,BP † died KA May 13 1992

5 MAUDUIT Chantal f 24/3/1964 F 7 No 17-Jul-97 G2 EV,MAK,NP,G1,AN,BP,KA † died DH 1998

6 CZERWINSKA Anna f 1949 P 6 25-May-06 MAK SP,BP,KA,MAN,DH,AN,G1,K2
http://czerwinska.szkolagorska.com/

7 BOSKOFF Christine f 9/7/1967 US 6 10-Oct-00 SH MAK,MAN,AN,DH,KAG1,NP,K2 † Died climbing in Tibet, Nov 2006

8 BONILLA Badia f 1968 MX 5 22-Jul-06 G2 KA,MAN,DH,AN,SP,NP,K2,BP,G1

9 WATANABE Tamae f 21/11/1938 Jp 5 15-May-04 Lh K2,KA,MAK,MAN,DHA,G1,NP,AN,BP

survival

Big Wall climber

arlington, va

Feb 22, 2008 - 09:18am PT

Bump for a climbing thread!

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Apr 19, 2014 - 03:50pm PT

bump

johnkelley

climber

Anchorage Alaska

Apr 19, 2014 - 05:51pm PT

Here's the most active one in Alaska. Three grade IV FA's in the last month

http://www.supertopo.com/tr/FA-of-the-South-Duke-Taku-Range/t12326n.html

Lollie

Social climber

I'm Lolli.

Apr 19, 2014 - 09:59pm PT

Junko Tabei, first woman on Mount Everest, Maj 16 1975.

mark miller

Social climber

Reno

Apr 19, 2014 - 10:15pm PT

I've climbed with, ( and had the respectful pleasure) in the early eighties of climbing with a women that use to blow me away. I could lead easy .11,s and she could follow anything I made it up.
In the big hills, mountaineering she was unstoppable. She drug my sorry ass up so many of CA'S 14k,s that I can't recall..
Her name was Christy Tewes, she was on the Women's Annapurna expedition (as base camp manager) that wrote the book a women's Place Was on Top.

She also was a contemporary of Warren Harding and was on many adventures with him including the ascent of that roue over by the Yosemite falls where everyone is credited with et. al. to save Warrens marriage.
She was so hardcore that as a boxer and serious weight lifter, back then she would continually Kick my ass.
We shared so many summits and special times in the mountains, Thank you Christy.
Sex has NO difference in the hills, it's all HEART! She had it in Spades.