Katie Brown (climber)
Katie Brown (born 1981)
Biography
She began sport climbing in Kentucky at the age of 13, and in 1995 at age 14 she won the X Games[3] and a climbing Junior World Championship in Laval.[4] In 1996 and 1997 she won both the Rock Master in Arco, Italy as well as the X Games. In 1999 she clinched a World Cup victory in France.[5]
In October 2008, she completed an
Brown was selected as one of the 2009 "Hot 20 under 40" by 7x7SF Magazine,[7] and is the author of the book Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace, and Courage. Around the same time, she was featured in a Citibank ThankYou Card commercial along with Alex Honnold, climbing Fisher Towers near Moab, Utah. She also appeared in Rolling Stone and The New York Times.[5] She was once described by former world champion Lynn Hill as "the best female climber in the history of the sport."[5]
She left the sport behind and has lived in the Boulder, Colorado area. In 2007 she started a newspaper column about climbing for the Boulder Daily Camera and is currently working on a memoir.[5]
On October 11, 2022, she released the book Unraveled: A Climber’s Journey Through Darkness and Back detailing her struggles and the fallout of her time as a prodigy,[8] which won the 2023 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
References
- ^ Whiting, Sam (2009-03-13). A star climbs the walls in Berkeley. San Francisco Chronicle, 13 March 2009. Retrieved on 2012-02-11 from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/13/DD1R15P890.DTL.
- ^ Brown, Katie (2022-10-07). "What Ever Happened to Katie Brown?". Climbing. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ^ "Women Climbing: History: Timeline: 1990-1999". Archived from the original on 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ "UIAA Youth Worldchampionship - Laval 1995 - Result: female youth B lead". ifsc-climbing.org. 6 October 1995. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Wicked Gravity: Fallen star, Katie Brown, shines new light". Boulder Daily Camera. 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
- ^ Douglas MacDonald (10 October 2008). "Katie Brown: Half Dome All-Free Onsight". Climbing. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
- ^ "Hot 20 2009: Katie Brown, Top-Ranked Climber". 10 July 2007.
- ^ Miller, Delaney (2022-10-10). "Katie Brown's Book 'Unraveled' Broke My Heart. I'm Glad I Read It". Climbing. Retrieved 2022-11-09.