The Rich Roll Podcast · 2025-10-06 · 118 min · 21,728 words

How Emily Harrington Became The First Woman To Free Climb El Cap’s Golden Gate In Under 24 Hours

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There's one sequence in the film that is definitely like the most terrifying thing that I've seen in a climbing movie. Can we talk about the fall? Yeah, so I had tried to achieve this goal for climbing Golden Gate in a day, and I just remember like slipping and falling over sideways. Like I think my foot slipped. It fell about 50 feet and so I hit.

like alleged and flipped upside down, hit my head, lost consciousness. It was very bad. Don't be afraid to do things in your own way, to fail in your own way, to not be afraid of fear, to not be afraid to try hard and care about things and be vulnerable and be open. And it's really not all about success. The majority of life is about how we deal with failure and how we deal with discomfort and struggle.

And so I think we should never be ashamed to be a part of that. Just go for it. Emily Harrington, you guys. Emily Harrington. Emily is, there's really only one way to say it.

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