Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou
Acting
Biography
Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou (born 8 May 1963), is an American rock climber and rock climbing coach. In competition lead climbing, she is a 4-time World Cup champion (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995), and won the biennial World Championships in 1995. She is the third-ever woman in history to redpoint a 5.14a (8b+) graded sport climbing route. She has coached several competition climbers, including Natalia Grossman, Megan Mascarenas, Margo Hayes, Colin Duffy, Emily Harrington and her daughter, Brooke Raboutou.
Known For
Her ascents of La Rambla first and then Biographie, have in a sense opened the doors to difficult higher than 9a by women and in particular the first 9a+, made it clear to everyone that the games were still widely open and in fact from there little by little, another great chmapion brought the bar on 9b.
Break on Through
The French director, Laurent Triay, tells us in this documentary the different stages that mark the lives of some of the best climbers in the world. Climbing fanatics, like Brooke Raboutu, nine, or the tireless Lynn Hill, fifty, will show us how their passion has evolved over the years and how they have had to combine their hobby with motherhood or studies. school. In seven chapters, the director approaches the human side of each of them and their sporting evolution in some of the best climbing routes in France and Spain.