Maureen Beck is an American mountaineer, and a specialist in adaptive climbing. Born without a lower left arm, she has won six national titles, and won a gold medal at the 2014 Spanish Paraclimbing World Championships.
Beck is from
Ellsworth, Maine
Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Maine, United States. The 2020 Census determined it had a population of 8,399. Named after United States Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth, it contains historic buildings and ...
and a graduate of the
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is amon ...
. She was inspired to take up climbing at the age of 12 after a counsellor said she did not have to do it on a camp course. Because there was no support for one-handed climbing, she devised a way of doing it herself. She accompanied
Jim Ewing in a climb of the
Lotus Flower Tower
The Lotus Flower Tower is a peak in the Cirque of the Unclimbables, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located on the ridge one km southwest of Mount Sir James MacBrien, and though it is not prominent in relation to surrounding peaks, it is no ...
in the
Cirque of the Unclimbables
Cirque of the Unclimbables, located inside the Nahanni National Park Reserve, in the Northwest Territories, Canada, approximately west of Yellowknife, is a cluster of peaks and walls in the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region.
Description
Accord ...
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The 2018 documentary "Stumped" centered on Beck and her climbing career.
Honors and awards
In 2019 Beck was named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. In May of 2022, Beck placed second at the IFSC Paraclimbing World Cup.
References
External links
Mo Beck's personal site
Beck's Instagram
Living people
American female climbers
Paraclimbers
University of Vermont alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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