Katie Brown (climber)

[5] In October 2008, she completed an onsight ascent of the northwest face of Yosemite National Park's Half Dome, and afterward, along with climber Lynn Hill, made the first female free ascent of Leaning Tower.

[6] Brown was selected as one of the 2009 "Hot 20 under 40" by 7x7SF Magazine,[7] and is the author of the book Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace, and Courage.

Around the same time, she was featured in a Citibank ThankYou Card commercial along with Alex Honnold, climbing Fisher Towers near Moab, Utah.

In 2007 she started a newspaper column about climbing for the Boulder Daily Camera and is currently working on a memoir.

[5] On October 11, 2022, she released the book Unraveled: A Climber’s Journey Through Darkness and Back detailing her struggles and the fallout of her time as a prodigy,[8] which won the 2023 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.