Madagascar: A Woman’s First Ascent Quickly becoming the destination spot for big wall rock climbing, this remote and exotic island off the southern tip of Africa is where world-renown climber, Lynn Hill and her all-star women’s team attempt a new route on its enormous granite buttress. Great Trango Tower: A Granite Mile High The 20,600 foot Great Trango Tower has never been summitted from its northwest face. Climbers Alex Lowe, Jared Ogden and Mark Synnott brave weather, exhaustion and rockfall to claim the prize of this mile high First Ascent.