Serious athletes are used to digging deep. But there鈥檚 pushing yourself, and then there鈥檚 what climber Emily Harrington did on November 4,聽when she became the first woman, and the fourth person ever, to free-climb the Golden Gate route up Yosemite鈥檚 El Capitan in a single day. It was an insanely challenging endeavor:聽a聽3,200-foot ascent聽up the sheer granite wall using only her hands and feet. For Harrington, it was the culmination of a long effort that included a fall on El Cap in 2019, which sent聽her to the hospital聽strapped to a backboard. In November, she was just a few hundred feet from the top when she took another bad fall, this time smashing her head. With聽blood pouring down her face, she had to decide whether she could keep going. In this episode, Harrington talks to 国产吃瓜黑料 contributor Stephanie Joyce about why she鈥檚 still terrified at the beginning of every Yosemite season聽and how falling is what actually allowed her to get to the top.
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