Babsi Zangerl

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| updated = 5 April 2024 }} Barbara Zangerl (born 24 May 1988) is an Austrian rock climber who is widely considered as one of the best all-round female climbers in the world. At various stages in her career, she has climbed at, or just below, the highest climbing grades achieved by a female in every major rock climbing discipline, including bouldering, traditional climbing, sport climbing, multi-pitch climbing and big wall climbing.

She was the first-ever female to solve an 8A+/8B (V12/13) graded bouldering route with ''Pura Vida'' in 2008, and has repeated some of the hardest traditional climbing routes in the world, including ''Meltdown'' in 2023, which at is still the hardest traditional climbing grade by a female climber. Zangerl has redpointed up to sport climbing grade with her ascent of ''Bombardino'' in 2025.

Zangerl has made the first female free ascent (FFFA) of several major multi-pitch and big wall climbing routes including the in 2013, three major routes on El Capitan (''El Nino'' in 2015, ''Zodiac'' in 2015, and ''Magic Mushroom'' in 2016), the Eiger's hardest route, ''Odyssee'', in 2018, and one of the hardest high-altitude big wall routes, ''Eternal Flame'' on the Nameless Tower in Pakistan, in 2022.

Zangerl became the first person in history to successfully flash a route on El Capitan (Freerider in 2024).

In 2019, she was named as the National Geographic 'Adventurer of the Year'. She is also known for her climbing partnership with Italian rock climber Jacopo Larcher. Provided by Wikipedia