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Steph Davis
Stephanie "Steph" Davis (born 1973) is an American rock climber, BASE jumper and wingsuit flyer. She is one of the world's leading female climbers, having completed some of the hardest routes in the world.〔 She is the only woman to have free solo climbed a 5.11 climb, the first woman to summit all the peaks of the Fitzroy Range in Patagonia, the second woman to free climb El Capitan in a day, the first woman to free climb the ''Salathė Wall'' on El Capitan, the first woman to free solo The Diamond on Longs Peak in Colorado, and the first woman to summit Torre Egger. Davis has been married twice, first to Dean Potter, ending in divorce, then to Mario Richard. Both Potter and Richard died in wingsuit accidents.
==Early life==
Davis was born in Illinois and grew up in New Jersey and Columbia, Maryland.〔〔 Her father, Virgil, was an aeronautical engineer and her mother, Connie, a school teacher. Davis describes herself as an unathletic child;〔 she was a straight-A student and very musical.〔 She grew up playing the piano from the age of three using the Suzuki method.〔 By the time she was 18, she practiced six hours a day; she also played the flute and sang.〔 In the documentary ''A Perfect Circle'', Davis says that she learned "discipline" and "how to project things" from her 15 years of playing the piano. Her own self-description has been mirrored by others. In one ''Outside'' profile, for example, her "greatest assets" are described as "sheer will and a brainy, methodical work ethic" rather than "natural athletic talent and flawless technique".〔
In 1990, she attended the University of Maryland, becoming an English major.〔 In the spring of 1991, a fellow student offered to take her climbing and she fell in love with it.〔 She describes herself as "lit up" after climbing for the first time; she did not have this same love for piano, so she quit.〔 Ever since then she has "had a hard time wanting to do anything else". She says that "climbing was challenging for me from day one, and I think that's why I got so sucked in." In her breaks from school, Davis climbed on Longs Peak and bouldered in Hueco Tanks.〔
She enjoyed climbing so much that she moved to Colorado where she was an exchange student at Colorado State University (CSU) for a year. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and then moved to Colorado and attended CSU to get a master's degree in English.〔 Her thesis focused on the canon of mountaineering literature and "the ways in which reality can be so disparate and shifting for each individual who is living through extreme circumstances", as Davis describes it. She considered attending PhD programs in English but decided against it.〔 She attended University of Colorado's law school, but after five days in September 1995 she quit,〔〔 knowing it was not the life for her. Against the will of her parents, she decided to pursue her passion for climbing.〔 Davis' mother, Connie, said "It was a big shock. We were just a regular family - climbing wasn't something we could relate to. She did it by herself, with no help from us."〔
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