Mari Gingery


Mari Gingery is an American climber. She has climbed in much of the Western United States particularly Joshua Tree, The Needles and Yosemite.
From 1979-83 Gingery climbed with Lynn Hill every weekend in Yosemite, completing an ascent of The Nose and then the first female-only ascent of The Shield on El Capitan over a period of six days. Hill cites her as a significant influence on her climbing.
Gingery competed at sport climbing competition events, placing highly.
Gingery wrote one of the first guidebooks to focus only on bouldering in 1993 - Joshua Tree Bouldering: Joshua Tree National Park. She also contributed to John Long's movie Rock Climbing: The Art Of Leading.
She lives both in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree with Mike Lechlinski with whom she frequently climbs, performing many first ascents in traditional style, often on-sight with no hang-dogging.

Selected first ascents