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Kim Carrigan BOOK 4-Mar-2017 At 5:59:23 PM ima.seriousyoungliza

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http://www.chockstone.org/Interviews/LShepherd.htm

'...Kim Carrigan was definitely the biggest influence no doubt because it was early on. He and I got together after I'd been climbing only maybe less than a year. I first met him at Arapiles and then I went up to Mt Buffalo. I remember he was at Buffalo climbing this big corner and bridging. It was maybe grade 20 or something. And he wasn't wearing any undies! [laughs]... This is before we got together. Anyway, he was definitely a very powerful influence in my life. When I first got into climbing he was already starting to free Procol Harum (26) and things like that. He was very bohemian. He had this afro, that was like out here [gestures]. It was really quite stunning. After we got together he chopped it off short. But I remember this big afro and this little circle of admirers. [laughs]. ...'

'...he actually encouraged me to climb with other women. We were about the same age, but he started climbing five years beforehand. When we first went to Yosemite Valley, he'd been there before, and he said "well don't expect me to climb with you, you'll need to find your own climbing partners. I'm climbing much better and I'm going to be doing this, this and this...". And I was a bit crestfallen, but then he did encourage me to find my own climbing partners and climb with other women. I met Evelyn Lees on that trip and we did lots and lots of climbing together. That's when my climbing really took off...'

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1034163&msg=1036269#msg1036269

'...Louise Shepard. An astonishing climber who, despite easily leading 5.11 & harder , was unknown outside those she climbed with. I remember watching her climb in Yos around 1980. She was similar to Hill in that she climbed methodically & like a dancer.
And Louise didn't just climb with Carrigan - I remember clearly her climbing with ( also unknown but who climbed at a high standard )Canadian Jean Macrae as well as other women....'

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