Lucy Creamer (born 19 April 1971) is a British professional climber who has participated in a broad range of activities including

competition climbing Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock climbing, rock-climbing competition held indoor climbing, indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls (earlier versions were held on external natural rock surfaces). The three competition ...

traditional climbing Traditional climbing (or trad climbing) is a type of free climbing in rock climbing where the lead climber places removable protection while simultaneously ascending the route; when the lead climber has completed the route, the second climber ...

sport climbing Sport climbing (or bolted climbing) is a type of free climbing in the sport of rock climbing where the Lead climbing, lead climber clips their climbing rope, rope — via a quickdraw — into pre-drilled in-situ bolt (climbing), bolts for their ...

alpine climbing Alpine climbing () is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpi ...

, and

ice climbing Ice climbing is a climbing discipline that involves ascending routes consisting entirely of frozen water. To ascend, the ice climber uses specialist equipment, particularly double ice axes (or the more modern ice tools) and rigid crampons. ...

mixed climbing Mixed climbing is an ice climbing discipline used on climbing routes that do not have enough ice to be regular ice climbs, but are also not dry enough to be regular rock climbing, rock climbs. To ascend the route, the mixed-climber uses ice-cli ...

Competition climbing

According to her website, her

rankings are as follows: *British Leading Champion: 1997/98, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007. *British Bouldering Champion: 2001. *British Masters Champion: 1998. *Best International result: Qualified through to final round, 9th place, 2003. *Best Ice competition result: 2nd place, Ouray International Ice Festival.

Media appearances

In 2011, Creamer appeared with Dr

Jonathan Foyle Jonathan Foyle is a British architectural historian, broadcaster and advocate for heritage sites. He is also an artist. Background Foyle grew up in Market Deeping in Lincolnshire and attended The Deepings School. He has a Master of Arts fr ...

in the BBC series ''

Climbing Great Buildings ''Climbing Great Buildings'' is a British television series made for the BBC by ITN Productions. The series, first broadcast on BBC Two from 6 to 28 September 2010, consists of fifteen half-hour programmes each featuring one famous British struct ...

''.BBC Website
(available in Australia and New Zealand only) In the series, they climbed fifteen British buildings dating from the Norman era to the twenty-first century.

Personal life

Creamer was born in

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century priory, monastic foundation, owned by the ...

, Somerset, but now lives in

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...

- a city known for its large climbing community. After working as an outdoor instructor Creamer became a full-time climber and has entered many climbing competitions.Creamer's official website
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UK Climbing Interview
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Competition climbing

Media appearances

Personal life

See also

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