Nancy Feagin
Big-wall Climber
Salt Lake City, Utah

Her passion to climb the biggest, most sheer rock faces in the world, make Nancy Feagin an inspiration for all climbers. On her lifelong quest to tackle the big walls of the world, she's managed to set some rock climbing standards in several disciplines, including speed-climbing. She was part of the first all-female, one day ascents of The Nose and Salathe Wall on El Capitan, and has soloed three big walls in Zion in southern Utah. She accomplished the 2,000-foot Lotus Tower in Canada's Northwest Territories in a remarkable time of only 10 hours. After graduating from Duke University with degrees is engineering and computer science, Nancy took up competitive climbing, consistently placing in the top 10. She has also won the Canadian Nationals and placed third in a World Cup speed-climbing event.

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