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From Urban Climber Magazine #15
NAME: HEIDI WIRTZ
AGE: 35
HOME: BOULDER, CO
SPONSORS: THE NORTH FACE, BLACK DIAMOND, LA SPORTIVA
THE LOCAL SPOT: SOUTHERN SUN
What's your most memorable send?
Making the first free ascent of the South Howser Minarette in the Bugaboos.
What inspires you?
Big amazing, preferably unclimbed, walls!
What are your goals for the near future?
To travel and climb around the world as much as possible. Next up: Thailand, Nepal, Jordan, Australia and Pakistan.
If you weren't climbing you'd be: Surfing
Three books you'd bring to a deserted island?
The SAS Survival Handbook by John 'Lofty' Wiseman, The Path To Enlightenment by the Dalai Lama, and any book on how to build a boat would be good.
What was your first concert?
Iron Maiden
What are you working on now?
Getting out the door for a two and a half month trip to Asia
Three favorite movies of all time?
American History X, City of Lost Angels, Motorcycle Diaries
What's the best advice you have ever received?
Follow your dreams!
Celebrity death match you'd most like to see?
Celine Dion vs Barbara Streisand
Current fashion you would quickly kill?
Low rise climbing pants - They don't work with a harness.
Here's a million bucks... what would you donate it to?
Education for girls in Asia
What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Roasted bug soup
What don't you want to be doing in five years?
I don't want to be driving the same pick up truck that I have had for the past 15 years.
Who is your hero?
Lynn Hill
What's your bad habit?
Waiting till the last minute to pack for big trips.
What drives you?
ADD
What is the meaning of life?
I'm still working on that one.