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Lynn Hill

Lynn Hill

Born: 1961-01-03 • Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Filmography
Here to Climb poster
Here to Climb
2024 • Self
The Fundamentals of Climbing poster
The Fundamentals of Climbing
2022
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground poster
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground
2020 • Self
Fine Lines poster
Fine Lines
2019 • Self
Break on Through poster
Break on Through
2018 • Self
Climbing the Nose poster
Climbing the Nose
2015 • Self
Jeff Lowe's Metanoia poster
Jeff Lowe's Metanoia
2014 • Self
Valley Uprising poster
Valley Uprising
2014 • Herself
La Dura Dura poster
La Dura Dura
2012 • Self
Best Of E.O.F.T. No. 8 poster
Best Of E.O.F.T. No. 8
2012 • Self
Petzl RocTrip China 2011 poster
Petzl RocTrip China 2011
2011 • Self
The Fanatic Search 2 - A Girl Thing poster
The Fanatic Search 2 - A Girl Thing
2010 • Self
Rocky Mountain Highball poster
Rocky Mountain Highball
2010 • Self
The Center Of The Universe poster
The Center Of The Universe
2004 • Self
Vertical Frontier poster
Vertical Frontier
2002 • Self
N.G.Extreme poster
N.G.Extreme
1999
Extreme poster
Extreme
1999 • Herself
Moving Over Stone poster
Moving Over Stone
1988 • Self
First Ascent poster
First Ascent
1982 • Self
Origins: Obe & Ashima poster
Origins: Obe & Ashima
— • Self