Dierdre Wolownick, mother of world-famous climber and Free Solo star Alex Honnold, is believed to be the oldest woman to scale the Yosemite National Park rock formation.
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.