Lynn Hill

Biography

Carolynn Marie Hill (born January 3, 1961) is an American rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competition 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.

Known For

Valley Uprising

Fine Lines

Extreme

La Dura Dura

A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground

Here to Climb

The Future of Climbing

The Center Of The Universe

All Movies (21)

• The Future of Climbing2025 · as Self (archive footage)
• Here to Climb2024 · as Self
• The Fundamentals of Climbing2022
• A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground2020 · as Self
• Fine Lines2019 · as Self
• Break on Through2018 · as Self
• Climbing the Nose2015 · as Self
• Metanoia2014 · as Self
• Valley Uprising2014 · as Self
• La Dura Dura2012 · as Self
• Best Of E.O.F.T. No. 82012 · as Self
• Petzl RocTrip China 20112011 · as Self
• The Fanatic Search 2 - A Girl Thing2010 · as Self
• Rocky Mountain Highball2010 · as Self
• The Center Of The Universe2004 · as Self
• Vertical Frontier2002 · as Self
• N.G.Extreme1999
• Extreme1999 · as Herself
• Moving Over Stone1988 · as Self
• First Ascent1982 · as Self
• Origins: Obe & Ashima— · as Self