Timmy O'Neill (born 1969) is an American professional rock climber, guide, and comedian.
[Abbey Smith]
Timmy O'Neill
. Climbing Magazine. He is nicknamed the "Urban Ape".
O'Neill is originally from
East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
East Lansdowne is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,668 at the 2010 census.
Geography
East Lansdowne is located at (39.944162, -75.260253).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough ...
, one of seven children.
[ After whitewater kayaking as a child,][ he began climbing as a teenager, scaling the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge and climbing in Yellowstone.][ He left Temple University after one semester and worked at the Old Faithful Gift Shop in Yellowstone, and in Yosemite.][ He has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 2000.]Tribune Tower
The Tribune Tower is a , 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Built between 1923 and 1925, the international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-cen ...
, without ropes.[ In 2001, along with Dean Potter, O'Neill set the-then speed record for the "Nose" climb on ]El Capitan
El Capitan ( es, El Capitán; "the Captain" or "the Chief") is a vertical Rock formations in the United States, rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The El Capitan Granite, granit ...
in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ar ...
, climbing it in three hours and twenty-four minutes.[
O'Neill has been featured in several climbing films including ''Return2Sender'', ''Front Range Freaks'', and most recently ''180 Degrees South''. He also produced "Return2Sender", which won Best Climbing Film from the Alpine Club of Canada. He narrated and co-wrote the non-fiction comedy "Across the Atlas", about an adventure in Morocco that turned out to be less epic than the participants hoped.][ One of his comedy personas is "Dr Steven "Death Zone" Clark",][ His brother Sean broke his back jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River and is still a climber.][ Paradox Sports is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that improves people's lives by creating an adaptive sport community built to inspire. Currently, O'Neill is the executive director of Paradox Sports
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American rock climbers
Living people
21st-century American comedians
Sportspeople from Boulder, Colorado
People from Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Year of birth uncertain
1969 births