Teasing that the new HBO documentary “Here to Climb” ends with rock climber Sasha DiGiulian joining her mentor Lynn Hill to become the first women to create a new route in the Flatirons near Boulder isn’t so much a spoiler as an incentive for anyone who cares about climbing in Colorado to go watch it.
The route, and the view of Boulder and Denver from the top of it, is so spectacular that at any other moment in history it might have been dubbed The King Line, male climbers’ traditional patriarchal way of indicating the most badass way of getting up a rock face.
“The climb is on such an iconic feature of the Flatirons and the fact that it’s called the Maiden is pretty awesome, so we’re calling our line The Queen Line,” DiGiulian says, taking a break between climbs in Boulder Canyon for an interview about the film, which premiers June 18.
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