Interesting comment/coincidence as yesterday I watched The Last Mountain [1], the poignant story of the deaths, 24 years apart, of ground breaking mountaineer Alison Hargreaves [2] and her son Tom Ballard [3]. Well worth a watch.

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00103ms

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Hargreaves

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ballard_(climber)

The BBC player was geo-blocked, but what a tragic story. I guess when you get that climbing-bug, it's almost like an addiction.

I thought so too. But the chronology seems reversed. He got into the sport before she did - aged 40. Then she became a champion.

I am not sure whether I read that right.

What was really impressive (again maybe I read it wrong) was that she became the best amongst both sexes. I cannot readily think of any other sport that has at some time been dominated by a woman.

Ultra swimming

And he's kept going although his mom disappeared (read: died) doing it in 2015.