Man, oh, man can she climb.
In 1990 she free-climbed the Nameless Tower in Pakistan and solo climbed the Bonatti Pillar on Les Drus. In June 1991, she opened a new route up the famous west face of the Drus, during a remarkable 11-day solo-climb. On the 10th March 1992, it took her 17 hours to solo the north face of the Eiger (3970 metres),
This is a BBC interview with Catherine Destivelle who climbs solo a lot. Her website is here.
Here she is free soloing a cliff in Mali.
2 comments:
Isn't she the one that did the solo in Africa? with the pygmi skulls in the caves? Beautiful!
She is the one who did the solo climb in Mali.
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