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Catherine Destivelle
5 quotes
“When I’m free soloing, I feel O.K. I always have a big safety margin, I’m not struggling. You feel quite powerful and calm. If I ever felt afraid, I wouldn’t go. I don’t like to bet. That goes for everything. I don’t run after luck. With my publishing company, it’s exactly the same. I go step by step and build something.”
Catherine Destivelle (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did the American Direct (ED1 5.10+ A0, 1,100m) on the Dru when I was 17. I was just an amateur. I was climbing because I liked climbing, but I didn’t know I would be able to do what I did after. It was just pleasure. I was still a child.”
Catherine Destivelle (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I realized I don’t like aid climbing. It was boring. But I learned a lot about myself: [It was] long, four days of bad weather, couldn’t go out of my portaledge.”
Catherine Destivelle (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn’t want people to say it was the first female ascent, I wanted to be the first person to climb the Eiger onsight and solo in winter (though I don’t know for sure that I was!).”
Catherine Destivelle (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Concentration is the biggest thing I learned through my career. You can’t succeed if you are not focused. Climbing taught me that. You never let it go. Concentration in each instant, each minute, each second.”
Catherine Destivelle (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source