Mother of famed climber Alex Honnold marks 70th birthday with record-setting ascent up Yosemite's El Capitan
Dierdre Wolownick, the mother of renowned rock climber Alex Honnold, turned 70 in September, and to commemorate her birthday, she proved once again that age would not deter her from living life on her own terms. Wolownick marked the milestone birthday by scaling Yosemite's famed El Capitan... again, breaking her own record as the oldest woman to climb the world's largest granite monolith.
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