Libby Sauter

Libby Sauter (born October 8, 1984) is an American mountaineer, rock climber, former pediatric cardiac intensive care nurse educator that now works as a primary care provider at a low income clinic in the USA. In 2007, she became the first woman to walk the Lost Arrow Spire highline. Sauter and her climbing partner, Mayan Smith-Gobat, set the women's speed record climbing The Nose on El Capitan, in 2014. In 2017, she became the youngest woman inducted into the American Alpine Club Hall of Fame.

Mountaineering

Sauter made the first ascent of a new route on El Hermano in Chile in 2014. She set a female speed record on The Nose on El Capitan in October 2014, In 2022, she completed a doctor of nursing practice from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.