She is, of course, Catherine Destivelle, the French rock queen. One of the women who more than anyone else fuelled the dreams of climbers, better still, was envied by male climbers for her boundless ...

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 ...

Very cool. French climber Catherine Destivelle was 28 at the time she was featured here in Africa soloing a sandstone cliff in the Mali desert. One of the top climbers in the world at the time ...

French sport-climber-turned-mountaineer Catherine Destivelle, who has spent the last several years soloing some of Europe’s most venerated peaks, usually in spectacular fashion, knocked off ...

A few years ago, alpinists Jeff Lowe and Catherine Destivelle popularized the pursuit when they successfully climbed opposing faces in the French Alps, with at least part of the object being a big ...

Catherine Destivelle is an ambassador for the French Alps and is well known in France and abroad. In Beyond the Summits, viewers will feel like they are climbing up the mountain with her.

Breathtaking climbing sequences. As a guide, none other than "The Rock Queen" Catherine Destivelle. Climbing companions of the caliber of Chris Bonington or Tom Livingstone, one of the greatest ...