Babsi Zangerl is widely regarded as the best female climber in the world, as well as National Geographic’s 2019 Adventurer of the Year. She found climbing as a teenager and soon completed an ascent of Pura Vida, the hardest boulder climbed by a woman at the time.
At age 19, she herniated a disc in her back. A doctor said she's never climb again. However, she quit bouldering and switched her focus to rope climbing. Since then she has become the first woman to complete the famed Alpine Trilogy, and completed five of El Capitan’s hardest big-wall free climbs, including just the second free ascent of Magic Mushroom. On top of that, to balance her life, she works a part-time job as a radiology assistant. Her contemporaries describe her as relentless and tenacious but also humble, low-key and unassuming. Alex Honnold, the famed free soloist said of her “She’s so mellow that it’s hard to think of her as ‘the best.”
Babsi believes in genuinely embracing process and adversity, in holding herself to strict climbing ethics, that it’s more memorable when one has to work extra for a route, and just diving into adventure because people might not know what they’re capable of.
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