THE WOMAN on the wall
WHEN LYNN HILL recalls her groundbreaking ascent of The Nose, her hands reach instinctually for invisible holds above the café table.
One finds home above her steaming chai latte, the other reaches above the neighbouring table, her body stretching like a capital Y.
It’s been 25 years since Hill became the first person to free climb Yosemite’s 880m slab, and she can still visualise the subtleties of the route once considered impossible.
Her body remembers the stretches and holds, the vertical contortionism – her fingers recall the cracks and
