Mayan adds more firsts to her list In October in California’s Yosemite Valley on the famous El Capitan granite monolith Mayan Smith-Gobat, New Zealand’s top female rock climber, added a few more firsts to her list of achievements. The 32-year-old from Christchurch became the second woman ever to climb the Salathé Wall, one of the […]
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