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Lynn Hill: Lessons of stone
So you freed The Nose. Then you freed it again in less than a day. Then you went to Kyrgyzstan and freed, oh, a few thousand feet of 5.12 wall there. What do you do for an encore?

By Hal Clifford
Outside Online correspondent

Larger than life?

The buzz
Stand up in a room full of climbers and declare that Lynn Hill is the best ever, and you probably won't get much argument. Her 1993 and 1994 free ascents of the 3,000-foot Nose on El Capitan were the culmination of a two-decade climbing career filled with firsts. Now Hill is focusing on a new personal first. Would you believe it's writing a book?

What's new
Since she dropped out of World Cup climbing competition in 1992 after seven years on the circuit, Hill, 35, has had stunning big-wall successes and is now reaching into new venues, including more remote climbing locales and a venture into alpinism. For now, the woman who may be the best-known rock climber on the planet is holding her cards close to her chest, but she suggests her future might be an evangelical one, preaching the lessons of stone in her upcoming book.