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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nHere is what she says about the 1993 ascent:
“But I have to say that my belief that this was kind of meant to be, in a fate sense, was such an important thing for me to achieve to make a bigger statement, which is that I thought that climbing was relatively immature in what we were capable of doing and I had the vision to see that a lot more was capable and there\u2019s no reason that a woman couldn\u2019t do something out there and that to me was an important statement to make because in the history of Yosemite there weren\u2019t really that many role models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was one for me, Beverley Johnson, and a few that had hung with the boys so to speak but I think that it\u2019s really important for women, girls to have role models to know that it\u2019s possible because it\u2019s the mind and belief that drives us. If you don\u2019t have any role models then you have even less reason to believe you\u2019re going to stand out. I saw that it was possible with the given set of skills and motivation that I had so I just tried really, really hard.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hill wrote a book about women in climbing, Women Who Dare: North America’s Most Inspiring Women Climbers, where she tackles the issues of gender equality. Check the excerpts from the book on her website following the link below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sources: Widely regarded as one of the best rock climbers of all time, male or female, Lynn Hill is also known as one of the pioneers of gender equality in rock climbing and sports in general and a role model for many girls around the world. Lynn Hill is the first person to free climb The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-19","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swost.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/gripped.com\/uncategorized\/lynn-hill-freed-el-cap-in-a-day-in-1994\/<\/a>
https:\/\/lynnhillclimbing.com\/media\/essays\/excerpt-from-the-book-women-who-dare-north-americas-most-inspiring-women-climbers\/<\/a>
https:\/\/www.mountainzone.com\/climbing\/99\/interviews\/hill\/<\/a>
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2KlA77j6xAc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"