Lynn Hill

Carolynn Marie Hill (born January 3, 1961) is an American rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competitive 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 the next year in less than 24 hours.

Quotes

 * It is who I am. Who I have always been. I have embraced this attitude as a young girl. They used to call me a tomboy when I was small. I thought that label was kind of insulting because it was taking away the fact that I was a girl and a woman. Calling girls a tomboy makes it seem that you are less of a woman just because you have athletic skills.
 * I just went ahead and followed what was true for me because it was sincere. I figured out that people were wrong judging me. The inner authentic choice I made was to follow my passion in this way. Very early on, I realised that I should not assume that the judgments, culture, or even traditions are right for me.
 * The more you prepare before you start, the more you will be relaxed. You have to recognise that you might be scared, you might be stuck, not knowing what to do. You might feel uncomfortable. You might get distracted by something in the audience. Mostly, I just accept that if that happens I am not going to try to resist it.
 * So I am scared, pumped, not sure what to do. If that happens, I take a very quick pause, a sort of a reset button which I call a mental shift. I stop. I make a quick assessment.
 * I do not climb to put myself in real danger like that. I climb because it is a lifestyle. It is fun. If I had to risk my life every time I climb, I would not think that would be fun
 * LYNN HILL,emontana, May 2022 by Eva Krchova