Catherine Destivelle

Biography

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 French Alps by the age of twenty. In the late 1980s, she became one of the world's best climbers and collected records, trophies and honorary distinctions. The 1990s marked a shift towards...Read More