“But throughout this experience I learned that there is no belonging or not belonging, no formula to achievement up there.
“I spent a lot of years feeling like I didn’t belong, like maybe I hadn’t earned my place to be a Yosemite climber,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle. Achieving the feat in a male-dominated sport mattered, Harrington said. It was another four years after Hill’s feat that a climber would first find another free way to the top.Īfter Hill, Steph Davis and Mayan Smith-Gobat also free-climbed El Capitan in a day, in 20, respectively. It is distinct from free-solo climbing, made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about an ascent by Alex Honnold of the same cliff, in that in free-solo climbing there are no ropes.Ī few dozen men have “free-climbed” El Capitan, but only three – Tommy Caldwell, Honnold and the late Brad Gobright – have gone up the route Harrington achieved, known as Golden Gate.Įl Capitan was first free-climbed in a day in 1994 by Lynn Hill, who managed the feat before anyone else had free-climbed the cliff in any amount of time. Only three women have previously made the free climb in a day.įree-climbing means climbing with a rope for protection in case of falls but otherwise climbing purely with hands and feet on rock, never taking advantage of artificial protection. She reached the top 21 hours, 13 minutes and 51 seconds later. While most of the US was focused on the results of the presidential election early on Wednesday, the 34-year-old began her climb.
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