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Catherine Destivelle is recognised and admired as the most adventurous and exciting female climber in the world today

Catherine's daring accomplishments as a solo climber in scaling the most difficult and dangerous peaks without the use of safety ropes, support or back-up is legendary. Her passion and desire to conquer the most challenging mountain faces in the world satisfies her emotions and her thirst for adrenaline, keeping her at the forefront of climbing and ahead of her time.

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...arily brave woman is an accomplished speaker in both English and French. She gives inspirational presentations where she challenges and inspires her audience to re-focus their goals to achieve success by sharing her visions and startling achievements. Catherine powerfully illustrates with slides , video footage and films the necessary vision, belief and self-determination needed to stretch herself to her full potential.

Reaching the top, "Following One's Instinct", "Catching The Opportunity", " Rising to the challenge" , "taking calculated risks", "Adding Value" are some of the themes she already developed for companies.

References : The Association of Risk Management, Avery Dennison, BearingPoint, Beauté Prestige International, Carrefour, Crédit Immobilier de France, Crédit Mutuel d'Anjou, Crédit Social des Fonctionnaires, Critical Path, Deloitte & Touch, Epson, ESSEC, Elis, GEIST, Générale Locaion, Groupe Expansion, IBM, Inktomi, Konika, Laboratoire Pierre Fabre, Nissan, People Soft, Unisys, TetraPak, ....

She began climbing at the age of 13. By the age of 15, she was picked up every Sunday by a group of more experienced climbers and whisked off to Fontainebleau for the day. By the age of 16, she had climbed the Couzy-Desmaison route on the Olan and the Devies-Gervasutti route on the Ailefroide, followed the year after by an ascent of the American Direct on the Petit Dru.

On the 10th March 1992, it took her 17 hours to solo the north face of the Eiger (3970 metres), in the Bernese Oberland, a mythical rock-face, regarded as the most fatal in the Alps.

In 1995 she climbed the South West Face of Shishapangma in Tibet, and attempted the South Face of Annapurna. The year 1996 was a break in her activity, because of an accident in Antarctica, but she recovered very quickly.

Catherine has spoken for companies such as The Association of Risk Management, Avery Dennison, BearingPoint, Beauté Prestige International, Carrefour, Crédit Immobilier de France, Crédit Mutuel d'Anjou, Crédit Social des Fonctionnaires, Critical Path, Deloitte & Touch, Epson, ESSEC, Elis, GEIST, Générale Locaion, Groupe Expansion, IBM, Inktomi, Konika, Laboratoire Pierre Fabre, Nissan, People Soft, Unisys, TetraPak, ....