French mountaineer Catherine Destivelle will become the first woman to receive the Piolet d'Or Carrière Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ladek Mountain Festival in Poland in September. In the past ...

It is dangerous to lean out…Those who climbed in the ’80’s have no doubts whatsoever: these words evoke one particular image. That of a girl clinging to the rock with just one hand, suspended high ...

"To be a good climber, or good mountain climber, you need two qualities. The most important is to have confidence and to have the determination to do something," Catherine Destivelle said while ...

At 31, and with four world climbing championship titles to her name, Catherine Destivelle had already amassed numerous mountaineering achievements, notably the ascent of the Trango Tower in the ...

Catherine Destivelle, born July 24, 1960 in Oran, is a French climber and mountaineer. Introduced to climbing at a very young age, she had already climbed the most difficult climbing routes in the ...