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Kitty
Calhoun (United States)
Kitty Calhoun began climbing at the age of eighteen on the crags of
her native South Carolina. Later, at college in Vermont, she added ice climbing to her
skills, and in 1984 ventured abroad, to the Cordillera Blanca in Peru. Soon afterwards she
turned her  attention to the Himalaya. A two-person attempt on Thalay Sagar in the Garwhal
was defeated by hunger and exhaustion after an eight-day storm, which pinned the climbers
on a porta-ledge on the face. But in 1987 she successfully climbed Dhaulagiri alpine-style
with two other team members; and three years later led an expedition to the West Pillar of
Makalu and summitted. Since then, she has also led an attempt to climb the North Ridge on
Latok I in Pakistan and has climbed big walls in Kyrgyzstan. In 1996, she returned to
Thalay Sagar, in 1997 she climbed a new route on the West Face of Middle Triple Peak in
Alaska, and in 1998 she attempted a new route on the West Face of Latok III. Calhoun is a
mom, earned an MBA degree from University of Washington, has been a guide since 1982 and
works for Patagonia.
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