Sasha DiGiulian and Marianna Ordóñez Pick Up Where Lynn Hill Left Off in Madagascar

At the cusp of the new millennium, Lynn Hill led an expedition to Madagascar to establish what was likely the hardest big wall route put up by a female team at the time. In the remote Tsaranoro Valley, on a 2,000-foot granite wall known as Tsaranoro Kely, Hill developed a 13-pitch 5.12c A0 and named it Bravo Les Filles. But she left Madagascar with one pitch unfreed: the 5.13d (8b) crux.

Decades later, while developing Queen Line (5.13c/d) in her backyard of Boulder, Colorado with Sasha DiGiulian...