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5 unusual facts about Marianne Pretorius


Marianne Pretorius

Here they climbed in 9 different states over a period of 5 months including Yosemite, where they started on the "Leaning Tower" and then went on to climb "The Nose" and "The Zodiac" on El Capitan in August 1999 - their first experience of big walls.

At the end of 2003, she, Alard Hufner, Mark Seuring, Mike Mason, Dermot Brogan and Voytek Modrevski set out to do a second ascent of the Torres del Paine route, which the South African team led by Paul Fatti had climbed 30 years ago and had never been repeated.

In February 2005 she climbed the "Compressor" route on Cerro Torre.

In 2004 she became the first woman to scale the East face of the Central Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia.

In early 2005 she returned to Patagonia and climbed the "Compressor Route" on Cerro Torre with Douard le Roux.



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