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The really cool part:
Dierdre Wolownick, Alex Honnold's mother, started climbing at age 60 and is the oldest woman to climb El Capitan (first at the age of 66 and then, breaking her own record, again at age 70)
Dierdre Wolownick, Alex Honnold's mother, started climbing at age 60 and is the oldest woman to climb El Capitan (first at the age of 66 and then, breaking her own record, again at age 70)
Here's a profile of her: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-28/dierdre-honnold-wolownick-rock-climbing-mom
Following Horace's tip led me to a career biog of Reinhold Messner, billed as "the greatest mountaineer on earth". Amazing reading.
https://achievement.org/achiever/reinhold-messner/I imagine how 99.90% of people gaze upon Pakistan's Nanga Parbat and admire its beauty and magnificence, and the other .10% -- ah, the other .10% gaze upon it and think, "I'm gonna conquer that bitch."
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