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Watch Emily Harrington Free Climb El Cap

The climber tackled ‘Golden Gate’ (5.13) in 2015. Eight years later, the footage remains a compelling narrative of nerve and verve.
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What to say about Emily Harrington? The five-time U.S. National Champion (sport climbing) is ice cold under pressure. Case in point — her 2015 free climb of El Cap’s Golden Gate (5.13).

Louder than Eleven‘s recently released edit of the ascent is a compact and compelling little climbing film. It may have been shot in 2015, but one thing we know is that Harrington’s only gotten better since then.

After all, she free-climbed the same route in 2020 in under 24 hours after recovering from a nasty fall on El Cap in 2019. What a boss.

Runtime: 16.5 minutes

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