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Catherine Destivelle Quotes

born 1960

Catherine Destivelle (born 24 July 1960) is a French rock climber and mountaineer who, in the mid-1980s, won the first major female climbing competitions.

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I didn’t want people to say it was the first female ascent, I wanted to be the first person to climb the Eiger onsight and solo in winter (though I don’t know for sure that I was!).

I realized I don’t like aid climbing. It was boring. But I learned a lot about myself: [It was] long, four days of bad weather, couldn’t go out of my portaledge.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Catherine Destivelle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.