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Lynn Hill

リン・ヒル　/　りん・ひる

American rock climber

January 3, 1961 (age 65)　・　Detroit, Michigan, United States

Michigan
rock climber

My Take

To me, Lynn Hill is one of the great figures in climbing, full stop. At just 157 cm, she made the first free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan, a feat the strongest men of her era could not match, then went back and repeated it in under a day. In a sport long coded as male, she won with technique, balance and sheer stubborn will rather than brute force. Her reported line, It goes, boys, still gives me chills. I admire people who refuse to accept the limits others draw for them, and Hill is the purest example I know.

Overview

Carolynn Marie Hill (born January 3, 1961) is an American rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competition climbers, traditional climbers (and particularly big wall climbers), sport climbers, and boulderers in the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she is famous for making the first free ascent of the difficult sheer rock face of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, and for repeating it…

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Lynn Hill
Name (Japanese): リン・ヒル
Reading: りん・ひる
Born: January 3, 1961 (age 65)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Ox
Origin: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: 157 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: rock climber

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Fullerton College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttps://www.lynnhillclimbing.com
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%AB

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