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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.

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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.

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

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

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



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