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Katie Brown (born 1980??) is a United States rock climber,(I'm here) known as a top sport climber of the 1980s and famous for making the first free ascent of the Nose Route on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.[1]

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she grew up in southern California. Hill started climbing as a 12 year old on a climbing trip with her sister and her sister's fiancé. During the early 1980s she became part of the climbing community centered around Camp 4 in Yosemite Valley. She participated in various television productions, such as being a candidate in the TV show Survival of the Fittest.

In 1979, Lynn Hill became the first woman to establish a 5.12+/5.13, Ophir Broke in Ophir, Colorado. In 1984 at The Gunks she performed an onsight first ascent of Yellow Crack 5.12R/X. From 1986 to 1992 Lynn Hill was one of the world's top sport climbers, winning over 30 international titles, including five victories at the Arco Rock Master. In 1991, she set another landmark by becoming the first woman to redpoint a consensus 5.14, Masse Critique in Cimai, France.

After ending her career as a professional competitive climber, Hill went back to traditional rock climbing. In 1993, together with her partner Brooke Sandahl, she became the first person, male or female, to free climb The Nose, a famous route on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.[2] In 1994 she upped the ante, by becoming the first to free climb the entire route in a single 24 hour period, beginning at 10:00 PM on September 19.[3] Lynn Hill's original climbing grade for the "Free Nose" was 5.13b. The Free Nose and the Free Nose in a day remained unrepeated over 10 years after Hill's first ascents - despite numerous attempts by some of the best big wall climbers in the world. Over time, a consensus grade of 5.14a/b has emerged for the most difficult pitch, pitch 27, the Changing Corners, a fact which cements her Free Nose ascents as two of the most impressive achievements in climbing history. The Nose saw a second free ascent in 1998, when Scott Burke summitted after 261 days of effort.[4][5]. Then, on Oct 14, 2005, the team of Caldwell and Rodden also freed the Nose, and on Oct 16, 2005, Caldwell freed it in less than 12 hours.

In 1988 Lynn married fellow Gunks climber Russ Raffa in a ceremony that featured the bride and groom dangling from the top of the cliffs in full wedding finery. Their marriage ended in 1991

On April 14, 2003, Hill gave birth to a son, Owen. The father is Hill's partner, chef Brad Lynch.

Hill is currently a sponsored athlete for the Patagonia gear and clothing company.

In 2005 Lynn started offering climbing camps in 5 locations in the United States, with plans for more in 2006. [edit] References

1. ^ Child, Greg; Lynn Hill (2003-05). Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World. W.W. Norton & Co.. ISBN 0393324338. 2. ^ Lynn Hill (1994). "El Capitan’s Nose Climbed Free" ([dead link]). American Alpine Journal 36 (68): 41–49. http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/1994/hill_elcapfre1994_41-49.pdf. 3. ^ Lynn Hill (1995). "First Free Ascent of the Nose in a Day" ([dead link]). American Alpine Journal 37 (69): 61–65. http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/1995/61_hill_freenose_aaj1995.pdf. 4. ^ "Crag, Climbing and Greater Range News". Mountaineering Council of Ireland. 1999. Archived from the original on March 12, 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050312095645/http://www.mountaineering.ie/news/Pre2000/news9905climb.htm. Retrieved July 11, 2006. 5. ^ Fallesen, Gary (2007). "Lynn Hill - Balancing Life By Climbing Free". Climbing for Christ. http://www.climbingforchrist.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1770. Retrieved October 10, 2007.

External links

* Alpinist Magazine Faces - Issue 17 * Climbandmore.com Lynn Hill complete climbing profile

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Katie Brown (born XXXX, XXXXXX, 1980) is an American climbing XXXXXXX, author, and XXXXXXX.

Personal life

She grew up in a large family, having three brothers and sisters and surrounded by thirty-two cousins and fourteen aunts and uncles. One of her uncles is the late University of Iowa football coach Forest Evashevski.

Katie Brown was educated as an art historian at Cornell University. She also raced on the U.S. Ski Team and had a catering business in Los Angeles.

She opened an antique store and cafe called Goat, which was located in Los Angeles and Mackinac Island, Michigan. Katie has been serving up dime-store domesticity on Lifetime Television's Next Door with Katie Brown since October 1997 and on PBS "Katie Brown Workshop". She has opened her own workshops in Los Angeles, New York, and Bridgehampton.

Katie is married to TV executive and producer William Corbin since November 2003. They had their first child, a daughter named Prentiss, in May 2004. They adopted their second child, a daughter named Meredith, in November 2008. [edit] Publishing

Katie Brown also has published numerous books on the subjects of cooking, gardening, and decorating: Katie Brown Decorates, Katie Brown Entertains, Katie Brown Weekends, Katie Brown Outdoors, and the recently released Katie Brown Celebrates. [edit] External links

* Official Site - http://www.katiebrown.com/ * http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/14713/Katie_Brown/index.aspx?authorID=14713 Harper Collins author profile of Katie Brown] * Katie Brown at the Internet Movie Database

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The tiny one with the tinier voice decides to take it and peels off her lavender hoodie. She reaches up to take a handhold and the muscles ripple from her biceps to her shoulder and down her back. Anyone looking will immediately know this compact 5-footer is not here for a birthday party or a corporate bonding event. If you watch big-wall videos or have seen the book "Girl on the Rocks," you'll recognize that back as belonging to Katie Brown, who Rock & Ice magazine called "the Best Female Climber of the Millenium (sic)," according to the book's back cover.

has spent her adult life in places like Moab, Utah,

Ironworks in the flats off Ashby Avenue is something of a surprise,.

"My arms are the bane of my existence. I always wanted to have little girly arms," she says, embarrassed at the attention. She is not in the Bay Area to climb. She's here to learn how to design stuff to climb in, at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in San Francisco. She says it is an intense two-year program to earn a certificate. Actually it is an associate of arts degree. Either way, it was the number of years, not the piece of paper that attracted her. She couldn't see going for four years, not when she hasn't been in a classroom for the past eight. She's been out conquering the big walls with ominous names like Dead Man Walking in Mexico and Tombstone Crack at Smith Rock, Oregon.

pro climber Alex Honnold wrote in an e-mail from Mexico. Honnold and Brown partnered up to scale Half Dome in September and "she led the majority of the route and did the last hard pitches in totally badass style," he writes. "She's bold in a way that few females are (except Lynn Hill, who's probably the best ever)."

"Girl on the Rocks: a Woman's Guide to Climbing With Strength, Grace, and Courage."

Brown learned to climb at age 13. Her family had moved from Colorado to Kentucky, when her dad, an accountant, got a job transfer. "Everyone was super bummed out," she says. Her mom does triathlons and when she got tired of all the moping, she dragged her son to a climbing gym.

She was the only girl on the gym wall, and she always had to add a few steps to account for the difference in height and strength (she was unable to do a pull-up for the first two years). Then, while on a family vacation she got "suckered into trying a regional competition in Colorado Springs," she writes in the introduction to her book. We know where this ends up - the ESPN X-Games and endorsement deals, which is what got her interested in her own fashion line.

"I've gotten to do a lot of work with my clothing sponsor and sat in on a lot of design meetings," says Brown, who is now sitting in on six-hour classes. "I want to do clothes for climbing, yoga, general fitness." Nobody at FIDM knows she has already mastered one profession and she doesn't want them to know. "My school is a different world," she says. Asked its location, she says "you get off on the Powell Street BART. That's all I know."

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Professional climber Katie Brown, a former world champion, well known climbing writer and one of the best rock climbers in the world

"Katie Brown's Rock Talk" is a key feature of the new online climbing community, YourClimbing.com, where Katie serves as enthusiast-in-chief.

On Rock Talk, Katie shares her climbing adventures and latest projects with readers, and is available to answer fellow climbers' questions about technique, equipment, strategy, the mental aspects of climbing, and routes.

About Katie Brown

Based in Boulder, Colorado, Katie is a professional climber Rock Climbing Ambassador for outdoor clothing company Patagonia. In addition to serving as enthusiast-in-chief for YourClimbing.com, she writes a regular climbing column for the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper and her writing regularly appears in the pages of climbing magazines. She is currently finishing up a book about the top climbers of her generation, for Falcon Press.

Katie started climbing in a gym at age 12, and quickly gained international attention for her talent by winning the Junior Nationals in 1995 and the World Junior Championships in Laval, France, in 1995

She's well known as being the first woman to on-sight a 5.13d, Omaha Beach in the Red River Gorge of Kentucky, in 1999.

Katie Brown started climbing at the age of 13. That same year, she won the Junior World Championships, and then won the legendary Arco Rockmaster twice.

In 1999 she won the World Cup at Besancon, and also won the X Games three times.

in 1999 Katie flashed a route in Siurana, Spain called Hydrophobia (5.14a). That feat placed Katie among four others, all men, who, at the time, had flashed a similar grade.

As a teenager: won both the World Cup ARCO Invitational was considered by many climbers to be the "world's best female sport climber."

In her 20s, Katie has traded competition for traditional climbing. Recently, she freed Yosemite's West Face of the Leaning Tower (5.13b A0) with climbing legend Lynn Hill. She was one of the climbers featured in Chris Sharma's film, Pilgrimage, about a bouldering pilgrimage by Sharma, Katie and Nate Gold to a sacred village in India where thousands of unclimbed boulders sit amid ancient Hindu temples. Other recent exploits include a trip to the Mediterranean island of Malta for deep water soloing, climbing sheer cliffs over the ocean with no protective gear.

Girl on the Rocks took the honor for best “Instructional Category” from The National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) is the outdoor world’s largest and most prestigious book award program.

Katie is a strong advocate for environmental protection and sustainability, and she believes in the importance of climbers doing their sport responsibly. "Climbing involves a careful balance between us and the environment, so we want to always be sure to take care of our resources so that we can continue to climb in areas that we love best," she says.

winning the X Games and a climbing World Cup. She’s also completed an onsight (free-climbing without knowledge of the route) of the northwest face (VI 5.12) of Yosemite’s Half Dome, and, along with climber Lynn Hill, the first female free ascent of the Leaning Tower. completing the 23-pitch route in about nine hours.

Websites:

YourMTB website: www.yourmtb.com

Corporate website: www.enthusiastgroup.com