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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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An interesting interview with Simone Badier from Mountain 32, Feb 1974.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Just amazing women.
Who doesn't envy Lynn Hill?
Not that the others don't deserve kudos either--but Lynn
freed the Nose in a day. OMG!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Biggest prize in the Valley! "It goes boys." She's one of my heroes for sure.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Thanks Mimi and Steve for these two pieces!! There just isn't much writing on women climbing at a modern technical level. Great images also.
best, ph
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Mimi, I learned to climb in Eldo in 82, climbed there and in Boulder Canyon for a few years before moving back to SD for a spell.
Sure wish I'dda run into you! Got stopped at 5.7 by my partners(now ex husband)lack of experience and drug addiction.
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Mimi
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2009 - 01:36pm PT
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hossjulia, it is too bad we didn't cross paths. We would've torn it up. Back then, women climbers were scarce but there sure were some good ones. After missing all of the 90s from a climbing standpoint, it is awesome to see so many solid women climbers out there today. It was only a matter of time.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I was looking through Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs and came across this summit shot of another badass gal! Molly definitely tore it up BITD!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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There was another woman doing some fairly hard climbing back in the time of the articles you scanned to start this post. I hate to bring up her name here, cuz she'll just get all full of herself again, and have to go out and get bigger hats, but...
...but Tami could pull down.
Mimi, if you've got a copy of an issue of Climbing from sometime in the mid-to-late 90s, there's a piece about her that could be scanned and put up here. I could probably dig up the text -- I wrote it -- but it'd take me about a year-and-a-half to find the magazine and scan the pics.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 01:24pm PT
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No luck on the Tami article....
Simone Badier's name came up again in Roger Frison-Roche and Sylvain Jouty's A History of Mountain Climbing, 1996. Along with a couple others.....
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Jan 11, 2009 - 02:16pm PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 03:36pm PT
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Total domination or ultimate foot massage fantasy?!? You be the judge! Who is the grining condemned man?
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Jan 11, 2009 - 03:44pm PT
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Russ Raffa with Laura Smith,Holly Raffa and unidentified climber.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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Catherine Freer spent some time climbing hard in Tucson with Todd Bibler before any other woman had made a strong showing there. Her death knocked us all back but man could she pull down!
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quartziteflight
climber
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Jan 11, 2009 - 07:16pm PT
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I'm always super impressed everytime I see that picture of Joych Bracht. Riiiippppppppppeeed!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 11, 2009 - 09:41pm PT
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hey there all.. say, thanks for sharing some stuff on the gal climbers, here, too....
i know even less about them, then i know about all you guys...
always learning here on supertopo...
god bless...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 11, 2009 - 09:48pm PT
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Sorry but I feel a need to add a note about the pic about
Joyce. To me it looks like she has an active eating disorder.
That she has so little body fat and is a "professional
ballerina" ...which means the pic brings me no joy.
I dunno. Pretty muscular for someone with an eating disorder. More like a bodybuilder in the last days before a comp. Like someone who normally carries a sensible amount of body fat but has burned it off for the comp.
But it does kinda look like she could crack walnuts with her butt cheeks. If you needed walnuts cracked, or something.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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A superb profile of the understated Canadian giant from Climbing #100 Feb 1987. The first North American woman atop Everest with style, a bigtime Big Game Player!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 13, 2009 - 01:37pm PT
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Bump for the Great North Wood!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 28, 2009 - 11:53pm PT
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Please ma'am may I have another! Bump!
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