- 10 minutes ago
Girl Climber [Full Movie] [Ranked]Full EP - Full
Category
đ„
Short filmTranscript
00:00:06Oh
00:00:30Let's go.
00:01:10Rito, open that up.
00:01:12Come on.
00:01:13Get it open.
00:01:16I totally knew it.
00:01:18I totally knew it.
00:01:21What is it?
00:01:23It's a rope.
00:01:24Get rid of that box.
00:01:26Another 12 year old would love a rope for Christmas.
00:01:29Yeah.
00:01:31Yeah.
00:01:31Come on, Em.
00:01:33Yeah.
00:01:34Woo!
00:01:35Yeah!
00:01:37Yeah!
00:01:38Yeah!
00:01:39Yeah!
00:01:39Yeah!
00:01:45Emily.
00:01:46Emily.
00:01:47Emily, where are we?
00:01:48I don't know.
00:01:50I don't know.
00:01:51We're at El Capitan.
00:01:57From Colorado, Emily Harrington.
00:02:02She's certainly a force to be reckoned with.
00:02:06Emily, make it look easy.
00:02:12Five-time national champion.
00:02:22But Emily is certainly one of the most well-rounded American female climbers.
00:02:27Part of your brain knows that this is slightly illogical.
00:02:32It is dangerous.
00:02:33But life's boring if you don't have that little element of spice, right?
00:02:38We should try to get a little bit more comfortable with being afraid.
00:02:46I love exploring my perceived limit and trying to push past it.
00:03:06I love it.
00:03:20I love it.
00:03:21I love it.
00:03:21What do you want me to do?
00:03:22I love this one.
00:03:23I love it.
00:03:23It's just a dance.
00:03:28Are you biting my nose?
00:03:45We got fire.
00:03:47I think this is my pee bottle.
00:03:51Nope, it's just a normal water bottle.
00:03:59A little flare in the van.
00:04:15I'm really proud of my career so far, but if you want to call yourself a successful all-around
00:04:21climber, you've got to be up on El Cap.
00:04:26There it is, in all its glory.
00:04:31El Capitan.
00:04:47It's always surprising how big it is.
00:04:50I never think, oh, like, it doesn't look that bad, or it doesn't look that big.
00:04:54It's always fucking so big.
00:04:58I don't know why no one talks about how scary it is.
00:05:04I wish I could not feel afraid anymore.
00:05:11El Capitan is a 3,200-foot granite face.
00:05:18It doesn't get much bigger, doesn't get much more difficult, doesn't get much more high
00:05:24quality than El Cap.
00:05:28It's just the most impressive, most beautiful stone in the world, and it's so hard to free
00:05:35climb.
00:05:38When you look at El Cap, it looks impossible, it looks smooth, and you can't imagine what
00:05:43there would be to climb it.
00:05:45It always attracted people that are curious to push themselves to the highest level.
00:05:52For decades, climbers have been testing themselves up there.
00:05:58Climbing El Capitan is the most badass thing that you can do, as a human.
00:06:04With the exception of Lynn Hill, and a few other women, it's very much like a boys club.
00:06:13When I started climbing, the first person I learned about was Lynn Hill.
00:06:18She was the first to free climb a route on El Capitan called the Nose.
00:06:23And then the following year, she went back and free climbed it in a day, which was the
00:06:30most groundbreaking, astonishing achievement.
00:06:34I didn't feel like I needed to prove anything after that, because I was at the age where I
00:06:39wanted to have a kid, I wanted to have a family, and having the freedom to just go rock climbing
00:06:45was not going to happen forever.
00:06:47At a certain point, you have to be happy with what you've done.
00:07:02I was in Yosemite looking for a project, some sort of inspiration.
00:07:08I was working on my personal quest to free solo El Cap on the Freerider, and she was willing
00:07:13to go up the wall to support me for a day of climbing.
00:07:15I got really excited, because climbing with Alex on El Cap is like playing basketball with
00:07:20Michael Jordan.
00:07:21It's like you're with the best of the best.
00:07:25First time I met Emily was at a cliff called Jail House.
00:07:28She was already a very established, very successful climber.
00:07:32She was a lot better than me.
00:07:34And the thing that really made an impression was that she was all kind of done up, and she
00:07:37had earrings and things.
00:07:38And I was like, man, how can someone climb that hard with earrings?
00:07:42She was just so well put together, and going to college, and doing the hardest thing at
00:07:46the cliff.
00:07:46Everything about it was just different than what I was living.
00:07:49I was like, whoa, that's a different level.
00:07:53You could tell he just didn't really care about anything but climbing.
00:07:57And he is very famous for free soloing, which is rock climbing without a rope.
00:08:04No person does what he does at his level.
00:08:11I was incredibly inspired by the way he moved.
00:08:16He was so perfect.
00:08:19He seems so at ease, and I've always envied that.
00:08:23With the green ground, you can climb up to the spire and like reflake the rope and manage.
00:08:28I'm just trying to nurture you into a simul-climbing machine.
00:08:35Good work.
00:08:37Yeah, good work.
00:08:39Good work.
00:08:40That was good.
00:08:41There's no way I would have done any of that without you.
00:08:44Isn't that pretty rad?
00:08:45That was pretty rad.
00:08:46That was a life experience.
00:08:48Yeah.
00:08:49I don't think you can do that in a day.
00:08:51You do?
00:08:52Yeah.
00:08:53I don't think it'd be that bad for you, because you just have the base fitness that you need,
00:08:56you know?
00:08:56Yeah.
00:08:57It'd definitely be a dream.
00:08:59Yeah, it'd be sick.
00:09:00It's got to start somewhere.
00:09:01Yeah.
00:09:03I mean, you know.
00:09:05That's when I first thought of trying to free climb El Cap in less than 24 hours.
00:09:12Climbing it in a day is the epitome of hard rock climbing.
00:09:16And there's a desire to prove myself.
00:09:18Like, I do deserve to be here.
00:09:20I do deserve to be climbing with all of these people that I've looked up to and idolized
00:09:25for a long time.
00:09:27That's awesome.
00:09:28That's pretty good.
00:09:29I was staggered too.
00:09:31It's the sense of belonging that I want.
00:09:48I see some big wet streaks, but I also see dry rock, so it's kind of a mixed bag up
00:09:55there.
00:09:57It is not going to change a single thing.
00:10:03Most people free climb El Cap over five days or so.
00:10:06It's so much harder to free climb El Cap in a day.
00:10:11The difference between doing a multi-day ascent and doing a one-day ascent is huge.
00:10:16To climb that thing in a day, it's outrageous.
00:10:19It's an audacious undertaking.
00:10:23I'm left wondering whether she can pull it off.
00:10:28Most people who free climb El Cap in a day have done it via the free rider because it's the
00:10:33easiest route.
00:10:34I wanted to do a more challenging route, and that's why I chose Golden Gate.
00:10:41There are very few climbers who have free climbed any route on El Cap in a day other than the
00:10:46free rider.
00:10:47Golden Gate is quite a bit harder.
00:10:50Golden Gate has only been free climbed in a day by three people.
00:10:53Three of the best El Cap climbers in the world.
00:11:00These guys are heroes of mine, and I want to be a part of that group.
00:11:11Golden Gate has 34 pitches.
00:11:14My goal is to climb from the beginning of each pitch to the end without falling.
00:11:19That will be a free ascent.
00:11:21If I fall, I have to go back to the beginning of that pitch and try again.
00:11:26And I need to do this in under 24 hours.
00:11:36That's going to be really hard for her.
00:11:38I give her a 20% chance of sending, honestly.
00:11:42She just hasn't paid her dues like Honnold has.
00:11:52It's hard to put yourself out there and say you're going to try to do the hardest thing you've ever
00:11:57done.
00:11:58Just because I'm trying to protect myself from people finding out that I'm afraid or that I fail or that
00:12:04I'm just like everyone else.
00:12:08I mean, I don't want to say it's mansplaining, but primarily there's men that have accomplished this goal.
00:12:13And so it's like I get a lot of advice and it's a lot of like, oh, you need to
00:12:18be committed to this and you need to go here for this amount of time and you need to do
00:12:21it this way.
00:12:22And you should be doing this and you should be doing that.
00:12:24I've been climbing for 22 years.
00:12:27Like I know how to approach a goal.
00:12:31I don't need someone to tell me how to do it.
00:12:35But obviously that's a hard, that's a hard thing to convince yourself of as well.
00:12:40It's hard for me to convince myself that I know what I'm doing.
00:12:44Do you think I need more than one three?
00:12:45I wouldn't even take the three.
00:12:46Oh my God.
00:12:48Maybe I don't need this and two purples.
00:12:51I always had it in my mind ever since he asked me to support him that he would probably be
00:12:56willing to support me on Golden Gate.
00:12:59I'd like to think I may be the best supporter in the world for El Cap just because I know
00:13:04the roots really well.
00:13:05I've worked on them a long time.
00:13:06I don't think anyone has climbed any of those parts of the wall faster.
00:13:09Are you climbing the monster with just one six?
00:13:11Yeah.
00:13:12Awesome.
00:13:12And I wanted to help Emily achieve this big dream of hers.
00:13:16Alex is very comfortable, very confident, but I also trust him.
00:13:20Having someone up there who you can tell is right at home makes me feel that much more comfortable.
00:13:27I'll give you that.
00:13:28Go up and try your best and...
00:13:30That's all I'm doing.
00:13:30I'm just going to go try.
00:13:31Move by move, you just do your best and see how it plays out.
00:13:34I'm allowed to fall.
00:13:36Yeah, I mean, that's the beautiful thing you ever rope.
00:13:38It's like a good shit.
00:13:40I'm really happy that I have a rope.
00:13:41I'm so good.
00:13:46That's all right.
00:13:46I'm so good.
00:13:46I'll just get some more water.
00:13:48Okay.
00:13:48You're up to the floor.
00:13:52I'm so sorry for this.
00:13:54You're up to the floor.
00:13:54Oh, bro.
00:13:58I'm so sorry.
00:14:01I'm so sorry.
00:14:04I'm so sorry.
00:14:04I'm so sorry.
00:14:04You're down here.
00:14:06You're down here.
00:14:07There.
00:14:16Remember, climbing mountain is fun.
00:14:35The way that I climb the bottom 2,000 feet of the route with Alex is something called
00:14:39simul climbing.
00:14:40So I'm leading, placing gear, and Alex is following, climbing at the same time as me.
00:14:45So we're moving up the wall together.
00:14:49And it enables you to move a lot faster, but it cuts some corners because you're placing
00:14:55less safety equipment between yourself and your partner.
00:14:58So if either of us falls, we can get severely injured or we could die.
00:15:03But this is really the only way to climb it in a day.
00:15:08I was kind of proud of myself, honestly.
00:15:10Yeah, that was good.
00:15:11I just hand-over-handed the rope, I was like, fuck that.
00:15:34That was the easiest that the monster has ever felt, but it's still really hard.
00:15:40That was way faster than ever before.
00:15:43Oh yeah?
00:15:43Yeah, like 45 minutes.
00:15:48You've found 2,000 feet already.
00:15:50You may as well climb one more picture.
00:15:51I'm going to try.
00:15:52I don't know if I can though.
00:15:53Yeah, of course you can.
00:15:54Just get in there and engage.
00:15:58Alright, you need someone to like punch in the nuts.
00:16:01I don't have nuts.
00:16:02Ovarice.
00:16:03Ovarice.
00:16:24Ovarice.
00:16:25I mean, I've been trying to give it to the death.
00:16:27Yeah, what is that to the death?
00:16:28It seems a little like worky.
00:16:31If we decide to go down, let's fully debrief like what are you going to do differently?
00:16:35What are you going to do better?
00:16:36Where can you save energy?
00:16:38Yeah.
00:16:39Because I mean, obviously there's a ton of room for improvement today.
00:16:41A lot of room for improvement.
00:16:47Yeah, that's crazy.
00:16:53It just went from perfectly okay.
00:16:55To perfectly not okay.
00:16:58Oh.
00:16:59Oh my god.
00:17:00It hurts so bad.
00:17:06Hi, give me a hug.
00:17:08I needed a hug from you all day.
00:17:11These bruises are just all from one pitch.
00:17:14I was secretly happy that we got rained off because everything just felt so hard.
00:17:24I don't really foresee me trying again this spring.
00:17:27I'm kind of worked over from the season.
00:17:31I didn't feel ready.
00:17:34And I haven't put in the work in order to be successful.
00:17:54Oh.
00:17:55That was her first wetsuit.
00:17:58Look at how tiny that little thing is.
00:18:01Here you go.
00:18:02Here's a bunch of trophies.
00:18:04Yes.
00:18:05Climbing stuff first place.
00:18:10Junior nationals.
00:18:12Oh, when she was 12 years old.
00:18:15I don't remember what that one was.
00:18:19What's that one from?
00:18:22Cirrus shovel.
00:18:23Oh, yeah.
00:18:24This is the World Cup she won.
00:18:28Oh, there's the little mohawk.
00:18:30Look at that mohawk.
00:18:35I would say I had like a very normal childhood.
00:18:40My dad was really into any activity that was in the mountains.
00:18:45Ski.
00:18:50Turns.
00:18:51Growing up I had this idea that girls were inferior in some way.
00:18:58I desperately wanted to prove that I wasn't like that.
00:19:05I grew up with my two cousins who were boys.
00:19:08And we were super competitive with each other.
00:19:11All I wanted to do was be better than them.
00:19:15I wanted to do well in everything.
00:19:18And I tried really hard.
00:19:24When I found climbing, this switch went off.
00:19:29It was like instantly that's what I wanted to do.
00:19:34The feeling of lightness and strength and invincibility was pretty profound.
00:19:46I liked the feeling of success.
00:19:52And if I didn't measure up to that, I was so upset and disappointed.
00:20:04Competitions, being the best, winning.
00:20:07To me that was what climbing was.
00:20:15I definitely started putting more pressure on myself.
00:20:19My self-worth was so tied to my success in climbing.
00:20:24And then my success in climbing was tied to my weight.
00:20:29The less mass you have, the easier it's going to be to stay on the wall.
00:20:35It just became this cycle of punishment.
00:20:38I remember being completely exhausted all the time.
00:20:43She was so thin.
00:20:46And I didn't know what to do.
00:20:48And I remember her hands were orange.
00:20:51Because all she was eating was carrots.
00:20:53And I wasn't sleeping well.
00:20:56And I was dizzy sometimes.
00:21:00And then climbing wasn't very fun.
00:21:04I feel like I barely laughed.
00:21:08I started realizing that this isn't how I want to live my life.
00:21:13And is climbing going to be a positive force in my life?
00:21:18Or is it always going to be this negative thing?
00:21:24I guess now is the best time.
00:21:26And here is the best place to say this.
00:21:28I have an eating disorder.
00:21:30I can't admit it to anybody else.
00:21:32But at least I can admit it to myself.
00:21:35I feel out of control when I indulge in food.
00:21:38And my all or nothing behavior makes me depressed and unhappy.
00:21:43I don't ever give myself a break.
00:21:45I want to be perfect all the time.
00:21:47I must run fast, climb strong, and eat as little as possible.
00:22:01Eventually my body and my brain just couldn't really handle all the stress and the pressures.
00:22:07I realized that competing wasn't something that I really wanted to do anymore.
00:22:16The pivotal thing that happened was I joined the North Face athlete team and got invited on an expedition to
00:22:25Mount Everest.
00:22:28I had no idea what it would do for me in my life.
00:22:34She was keen to try out mountain climbing.
00:22:38So I was like, oh, first mountain climbing trip? How about Everest?
00:22:42A little bit crazy, but why not?
00:22:45It's the tallest and most precipitous mountain range on our planet.
00:22:50If you want to test your mettle, that's where you go.
00:22:53I remember just saying, Emily, no.
00:22:57I do not want you going to Everest.
00:22:59Tim said to her, you're not going.
00:23:01And she said, Dad, I'm not 16.
00:23:04And that was the end of that.
00:23:08Emily at 25, barely coming out of the gym as a gym climber.
00:23:13And then being on Everest?
00:23:15I mean, that's a huge leap to make.
00:23:17I was a little, like, dark in those days.
00:23:21So I might have just totally written her off as a first impression.
00:23:26You know, just kind of like, ugh, whatever.
00:23:36It wasn't until I got there and realized that Conrad was, like, completely hands-off with Emily.
00:23:41And he was like, well, you step in.
00:23:42And I'm like, I don't even know her.
00:23:44I don't want to do this.
00:23:45I'm not a mentor.
00:23:47I was not very helpful.
00:23:49I definitely am not an incredibly sympathetic person.
00:23:58I'm ready to go up tomorrow.
00:24:00I'm a little nervous and scared to go through the icefall.
00:24:06That's knowledge.
00:24:08Happens, like, five times a day.
00:24:11It's really unnerving.
00:24:17I want to get through the icefall, and then I'll feel okay.
00:24:29Conrad saw something in her, and he was right.
00:24:35She just didn't give in.
00:24:44And I came to care immensely for Emily over the time of that trip.
00:24:54We talked about my relationship.
00:24:56We talked about my climbing.
00:24:57We talked about her kids and how much she missed her kids and just life.
00:25:01And it gave me a peek into what my life could be like in the future.
00:25:11Hey.
00:25:13I'm at the South Coal.
00:25:16Getting ready to go up for the summit.
00:25:25Just stuck behind a line of people.
00:25:28She passed me, and she was by herself.
00:25:30And I was like, Emily, why are you by yourself?
00:25:31Where's the Sherpa that you were climbing with?
00:25:34She was like, oh, God, I feel so bad.
00:25:36He was slow, so I left him behind.
00:25:39Was that really bad? Should I go back and get him?
00:25:48She crushed it.
00:25:51It was so out of her main sport that it just was all the more of a huge achievement.
00:26:00As a climber, you're the sum total of all your ascents and expeditions.
00:26:04And each experience that you have builds into who you are as a climber.
00:26:10And Emily got that.
00:26:11I was a lot stronger than I thought I would be.
00:26:15Climbing on Everest has made me appreciate the style of climbing that I do.
00:26:20I do want to continue to be in the mountains and to learn from them.
00:26:39Be faster, be faster.
00:26:43Stay
00:26:45There's your coffee.
00:26:50They stayed up late last night, get all these emails and texts from China and Nepal and Tibet.
00:26:55And I'm like scared to turn on their phone and see what everyone wrote.
00:26:59come back to bed no i have an interview in 15 minutes
00:27:06okay i'll make breakfast hi this is adrian
00:27:12doing some final prep for a big trip i'm leaving on early next week
00:27:16you know the average everest expedition is two months long
00:27:20and i'm probably away you know seven to eight months a year still traveling and
00:27:25climbing around the wall adrian is a high altitude climber and a mountain guide
00:27:32who spends a lot of time in the himalaya we met at camp two on mount everest
00:27:41i just remember this charismatic guy he was super nice and fun to talk to
00:27:48the sad fact of high altitude climbing is there's just not many women i certainly noticed
00:27:55emily as an anomaly but 21 000 feet is really miserable so you kind of like have a crushing
00:28:01headache at the same time you're trying to be like social and funny and interesting
00:28:05it's not like a great flooding opportunity it was this really powerful connection that we
00:28:10had i'd never felt like that with anyone before and we knew that we wanted to stay connected
00:28:20adrian is gone most of the year guiding in the himalaya and because i have this big project i'm
00:28:25working on we are going to spend the next four months apart i don't really look forward to this
00:28:31time of year as it is because adrian's gonna be gone for a really long time and i have a
00:28:38lot of
00:28:39like i put a lot of pressure on myself for my own projects no i've spent a lot of time
00:28:47with people
00:28:48who have lost their partner in the mountains and every time he leaves i have this part of me that
00:28:55is afraid he won't come back
00:29:02yes the secret stash okay i'm overwhelmed again i'm gonna go eat some toast i'm really
00:29:08overwhelmed right now goodbye here we go
00:29:12i don't know it kind of sucks
00:29:19cat stuff i have food coffee stuff music music bed
00:29:39and she's off
00:29:44it's always hard this one especially
00:29:58i'm going to moab because i want to prepare for the upcoming yosemite season and moab is a great
00:30:05place to do that
00:30:09last spring i just wasn't ready i hadn't put in the work
00:30:18look at these nails too these are the gel nail gel nail magic
00:30:22supposed to last for like three months
00:30:28i did not grow up
00:30:30learning how to crack climb
00:30:32and for climbing in yosemite it's a required skill
00:30:46i wouldn't consider myself a super confident person when i'm standing on the ground
00:30:50it's more why i'm like climbing that my confidence shines through
00:31:03i think i did get better technique
00:31:07it's nice to feel a little more confidence
00:31:12i'm excited to go do something
00:31:13it's Ù
ۧ fp
00:31:13you
00:31:31it's what we're saying
00:31:33it's what we're saying
00:31:45I've been in Yosemite now for a few weeks training on Golden Gate.
00:31:49It's been long days hiking in and practicing the harder pitches.
00:31:54It's really the only way to know every pitch for that in a day attempt.
00:32:03There's five hard sections of the route for me.
00:32:07The first one that comes up is the monster.
00:32:10You have to kind of wedge your body into this crack.
00:32:14And this pitch is almost 200 feet long.
00:32:17The monster off with is harder if your foot can't bridge the crack.
00:32:20My foot can span between one side of the crack and the other side so I can easily wedge one
00:32:24foot and push upward.
00:32:25If you have a smaller foot, it's harder to make upward progress.
00:32:36The next pitch that's really hard for me is called the down climb.
00:32:41There's essentially no hold.
00:32:43You're kind of standing on a less than vertical, smooth surface, just pasting your feet on the
00:32:51wall and using the friction in order to stick.
00:32:55Your balance has to be pretty perfect in order to not get spit off.
00:33:01Oh, that was it.
00:33:05The next hard pitch is called the move.
00:33:08At the end of the pitch, there's a really hard boulder problem.
00:33:12So a series of really hard moves.
00:33:18For me, it's the most powerful section of the route.
00:33:21It has the hardest single moves.
00:33:26The next section is called the golden desert.
00:33:30It is a really long crack climb mixed with some funky traversing under a roof.
00:33:40And then the very next pitch after that is called the A5 traverse.
00:33:45And that's kind of the pitch that guards you from success.
00:33:50Imagine traversing this steep, sloping rail and trying to stand on feet that are the width
00:33:56of dimes.
00:33:58The A5 traverse is the spot where most people fail.
00:34:01By the time you've climbed almost 3,000 feet to get there, your arms are just incredibly
00:34:05tired and it's really hard to hang on them.
00:34:10I'm still a little nervous about the A5 traverse.
00:34:42Thankfully, Adrian came home from Everest.
00:34:45Everything was fine, but there was weeks there where I thought he might not.
00:34:51It's not really that safe, even if you make good decisions.
00:34:54Is it true?
00:34:56That I thought you might die?
00:34:57Yeah.
00:34:59I thought you might die.
00:35:00So you figured you'd start moving on right away?
00:35:03Yeah.
00:35:03Just going to be a bachelorette and be just in my little world, independent.
00:35:10It could happen.
00:35:11It could be the other way around.
00:35:13Yeah.
00:35:13I think I think about it less, but I think about it sometimes as you start speed climbing
00:35:17more and more, cutting corners, rock fall.
00:35:22There's plenty of things that can kill you.
00:35:23It's a little bit of a stretch, but I'm not going to die.
00:35:26I'm not going to die rock climbing.
00:35:28But you've got to think about it and acknowledge it's a possibility.
00:35:30I know.
00:35:30It's true.
00:35:30It's true.
00:35:31I just think that I've finally, like, come to a place where I'm okay.
00:35:37Not okay, but more okay.
00:35:41More okay is good.
00:35:50Okay, questions.
00:35:52Okay, get married already.
00:35:53When are you getting married?
00:35:54Are you going to have babies?
00:35:55Babies.
00:35:56Get married already.
00:35:58Do you plan on having kids soon?
00:36:01Okay.
00:36:04I do plan on having kids eventually, I think.
00:36:07I want one kid, so I'm not really in, like, a huge rush.
00:36:12I, I say we, right?
00:36:15I think I've come around on that.
00:36:16We kind of settled on one, because Adrian wanted, like, three.
00:36:20Teen.
00:36:20He wanted three.
00:36:22But I just want one, so I'm not in a rush.
00:36:24And I have, like, we both have things we want to do first.
00:36:27I've got a couple about asking me about LCAP and what happened,
00:36:30and if I'm going back, basically, I failed.
00:36:34And I also had terrible weather, but that's, like, a second part of it
00:36:40that prevented me from succeeding.
00:36:41And yes, I'm going back in the fall.
00:37:00So we've got two liters of water.
00:37:01Okay.
00:37:02I have extra chalk.
00:37:04Okay.
00:37:05Cool.
00:37:06Are you taking that much extra chalk?
00:37:08I'm very concerned about the heat.
00:37:10It weighs nothing.
00:37:12I guess.
00:37:13It just, it seems like a lot of chalk for, yeah, cool.
00:37:15But we don't have to bring it.
00:37:16No, no.
00:37:17No, but I actually really want to.
00:37:18If you think it'll make you feel better, it definitely makes me feel better.
00:37:20Okay.
00:37:21Extra chalk.
00:37:21I'm bringing these.
00:37:22It's really hot.
00:37:23What are those?
00:37:25They're breakable ice packs for my hands and feet.
00:37:28That seems totally absurd.
00:37:30So if we want to climb by three, what time should we meet in the meadow?
00:37:33Well, like, 2.30.
00:37:342.30.
00:37:35That's like pretty early though.
00:37:37Pretty early.
00:37:58Okay.
00:38:06Nice job, man.
00:38:08Nice.
00:38:10Nice job, man.
00:38:24Nice.
00:38:45Nice job, man.
00:38:45Come on.
00:38:46Come on, now.
00:38:47Oh, good.
00:38:48Come on.
00:38:48Come on.
00:38:53Yeah, come on.
00:38:54Yeah, fuck yeah.
00:38:54Come on, you.
00:38:55Oh.
00:38:56You're good.
00:38:57Come on, now.
00:39:00Give me a break.
00:39:02Now.
00:39:02All right.
00:39:03Good job.
00:39:04Ready?
00:39:08if you do it today in this style just like you just did it be pretty sick
00:39:16think about how good that's gonna feel i can't yet i gotta finish the rest of it
00:39:28yeah we started 11 and a half hours ago so it's a good time actually
00:39:34this is when you rely on your your world cup fitness
00:39:50pretty sure you can just climb one more pitch pretty sure there's like five more pitches
00:40:04good em that's it
00:40:12good good i'm falling no no you're okay come on come on no it's too much stay with it
00:40:19it just fucked everything up and like that's all right oh my god
00:40:25it's like
00:40:31really good yeah really good
00:40:41ellen ellen come on there you go
00:40:47i don't have it you guys i don't have it
00:40:51i'm just too tired i'm giving it everything i have
00:40:56i just
00:40:59just couldn't do it i couldn't keep climbing
00:41:03i'm like super bummed but it's like everything i could possibly do
00:41:13i think you have to try things that you're afraid of that you might suck at
00:41:34that you're gonna most likely fail at in order to actually really
00:41:39get to know yourself and and know what you're capable of
00:41:49you're gonna be able to do it
00:41:49when i was trying to figure out how to make a team to go
00:41:53on this seven week totally unknown jungle bashing crazy alpine myanmar expedition
00:42:02i wanted emily to go like i wanted her to go
00:42:07more than anyone like i wouldn't go if emily didn't go
00:42:11this is like an anti-everest trip
00:42:18think of everest from the minute you get off the plane to the summit of everest
00:42:22every step of the way is mapped out
00:42:25pakaka burazzi was exactly the opposite
00:42:29wanting her on the team was met with a lot of resistance
00:42:33but i put my foot down and she was stoked to do it
00:42:45it was a month before we even got to be scanned we had to cut our gear by two-thirds
00:42:53and i ran out of food a lot of the things that i did today i've never done before
00:43:22it's scary the heavy pack peel off that ones a little
00:43:26good job am thank you
00:43:31way more rad way more gnarly than everest
00:43:38so my favorite day on that whole climb was emily and i were stuck on this ridge for 48 hours
00:43:49winds blowing 60 miles an hour non-stop
00:43:53and at one point emily looks at me and she's like
00:43:56what do you think you think we're gonna be okay i looked at her and i was like i don't
00:44:00i don't know
00:44:01i hope so and she was like all right cool okay
00:44:10and five minutes later we're laughing and like doing what we can to like stay alive
00:44:19emily and i have talked a lot about how crazy it was and how strung out we were and how
00:44:24close to just like laying down on the trail and giving up we were and we just didn't
00:44:31she was everything i expected her to be on that trip she was gritty she was funny she helped me
00:44:38when i
00:44:38was low she tackled massive scary things
00:44:43she was scared to do that yes
00:44:583 30 in the morning november twenty something
00:45:09Dragged everyone into helping me climb El Cap in a day.
00:45:16Massive snowstorm is approaching, like tomorrow, so.
00:45:20Day after tomorrow.
00:45:21Last day of the season basically.
00:45:23Dragging everyone up here to support me one more time.
00:45:26One more character building day on the mountain.
00:45:28One more character building day on the mountain.
00:45:31It's like 4 a.m.
00:45:34It's way colder than it was last time, so that's good.
00:45:36If you were really pro, you'd be racked onto the harness already.
00:45:38Pack your harness that way.
00:45:41Oh yeah, I didn't do that.
00:45:43You guys heated it last time.
00:45:45Ten more feet today, okay?
00:45:47Yeah, exactly.
00:45:48Ten more feet today.
00:45:53Go Em, go.
00:45:54Here we go.
00:45:55You're gonna crush it.
00:45:57Thanks, Sonny.
00:46:04Hi, Sam.
00:46:06Hi.
00:46:07You're crushing.
00:46:09It's such a still day up on the captain.
00:46:30Creaky old grandpa, I'll sit down and tighten the shoes up.
00:46:36Nice, Em.
00:46:38Oh my God.
00:46:44Are you okay, Em?
00:46:46Emily, are you okay?
00:46:49Em?
00:46:50Holy shit.
00:46:52Oh my God, Em.
00:46:56Should I lower you to the ledge?
00:46:57Emily, you're okay.
00:46:58I'm okay.
00:47:02I'm okay.
00:47:03I'm okay.
00:47:03Em.
00:47:05Talk to us.
00:47:07Talk to us, Em.
00:47:08Are you okay?
00:47:09Are you right side up?
00:47:13She's not right side up.
00:47:15Fuck.
00:47:16Do you confirm your number is 404 seconds?
00:47:18Correct.
00:47:19I'm going to be on hold while I try to get a razor, OK?
00:47:22OK, thank you.
00:47:29You're stable now, huh?
00:47:31Hang in there, um.
00:47:35You know, I can tell that it's terrible.
00:47:37It's all terrible.
00:47:38Like, you can tell it's a giant fall.
00:47:41The only thing I was thinking about was whether or not
00:47:44she'll walk again.
00:48:14I'm glad I could be fishing on it on the way.
00:48:21I've found this pitch so many times.
00:48:23I know it's slippery, but I've never fallen.
00:48:25I know my feet are cold, but I need to be confident.
00:48:31I wasn't scared.
00:48:32I just now it's scary, though, to think about.
00:48:49Oh, I'm sorry, guys.
00:49:00Yeah, I still have some stuff to learn, I guess.
00:49:03And the wind is just not easy.
00:49:04I don't know.
00:49:09I don't know.
00:49:13Okay.
00:49:19I don't know.
00:49:19That's right, I'll tell you.
00:49:20Thanks for the, guys?
00:49:20Bye-bye.
00:49:23See you next time.
00:49:23Bye-bye.
00:49:25Bye-bye.
00:49:30Bye-bye.
00:49:33world-class climber Emily Harrington trying to make history falling from Yosemite's El Capitan
00:49:38rescued by one of the most famous climbers in the world falls are apparel of the sport no matter
00:49:44your skill level thank goodness she was with people like Alex Honnold the climber at the
00:49:48center that Oscar-winning documentary free solo I was blanks I'm holding the rope but then when
00:49:53she fell so much rope fell into the system like so much rope pooled at my feet basically that
00:49:58uh I wound up actually uh grabbing the rope with my hands in an effort to catch her sooner I
00:50:03don't
00:50:03know if you guys had a chance to watch free solo oh he was I mean it's amazing what they
00:50:08do and boy
00:50:09you gotta have some nerves of steel yes you do you sure do full recovery
00:50:15how are you feeling about it all shitty about it like sad yeah
00:50:24everyone is interested in El Cap and everyone is interested in the fact that I was fine with Alex
00:50:29Honnold so they want to write a story about the damsel in distress who was rescued by the free
00:50:35solo star oh adrenaline junkies like risking their lives falling off of sheer cliffs gets rescued like
00:50:44it's just stupid and not true and it's misunderstood I had a bad fall climbing because rock climbing is
00:50:51inherently dangerous but and Alex did what exactly what any good partner would do yeah and that's the
00:50:58end of the story we were choosing to take a certain level of risk that day it was a hundred
00:51:09percent not his
00:51:10fault what happened
00:51:43I was afraid of not being good enough and now the entire world thinks that as well
00:51:56she is no Alex Honnold do this without the security of a rope and then you can pretend to have
00:52:02accomplished something woman go back to kitchen please let man's doing this stuff she's too fat
00:52:27I'm bruised and have a rope burn on my neck and a pretty intense concussion I'm slowly recovering but mentally
00:52:36I'm struggling
00:52:41I just spiral into the negativity of oh I'm never gonna be able to get anywhere with this
00:52:50lots of doubt and lots of kind of like questioning of like why am I doing this why am I
00:52:54even like
00:52:55trying so hard and just feel like giving up there's just this really big fear and it's all circling around
00:53:03like the whole kid thing and the the clock is ticking idea and I really do want to have fun
00:53:10and enjoy
00:53:11climbing I do I just don't know how right now yeah it's hard to trust myself I guess
00:53:34it's passover happy passover guys hug some map john hug some app to you and uh we can tell that
00:53:41it's passover
00:53:41because we are in our houses hiding from a plague and because in a recent breakfast podcast very loud
00:53:48podcast very loud blood on your door will stop coronavirus we are one day short of a month
00:53:56since we've been home April 12th Easter Sunday and it's Sunday but it doesn't really matter that
00:54:06it's Sunday every day is pretty much very similar
00:54:15Adrian and I have been physically together for longer than we have ever been
00:54:21but it's felt like this period of deep connection what's your favorite color
00:54:28this is like a rapid fire question oh really I actually what's your favorite color gray gray
00:54:40my favorite color is green really yeah I never knew that well you learn something new every day don't
00:54:48you don't think I've ever bought you anything green better start now we've discussed starting a family in
00:54:57more serious ways but I really have to finish this project before I can start thinking about taking
00:55:05that stuff I don't want to take eight years to free climb yellow cap in a day then I'll be
00:55:0940 and
00:55:10then you know it might be too late
00:55:25if I let something like fear something like an accident stop me from doing something
00:55:32then I'll never go back I'll never try something hard again this is no longer just a way to prove
00:55:39myself it's a way for me to gain back trust and confidence in myself I need to go back
00:55:58I've been really gentle with myself just accepting that I'm probably going to be a little more
00:56:04conservative this year I think I'm going to talk to Alex about adjusting my method and just be like
00:56:08dude I don't want to like go so fast I want to be able to stop and take a breather
00:56:14and I want to be
00:56:14able to place more gear and feel way more safe
00:56:34and so it begins Emily's Yosemite season
00:56:453 a.m. I'm out of bed in coffee
00:56:50M's waiting for a coffee the life of a superstar
00:56:56how's it feeling?
00:56:58it's okay where I fell last year
00:57:00where you fell last year
00:57:01yeah
00:57:05I'm back in Yosemite for the first time since the accident
00:57:08and Adrian's been helping me train on the hard pitches and build back that trust
00:57:14down to the move pitch
00:57:21yes
00:57:25there was no like massive screaming whippers out of the move today
00:57:30you just hit it every time you're stronger
00:57:32big support today thank you
00:57:40physically I feel better than I have probably ever in my life
00:57:45I'm trying to figure out the best tactics for climbing the monster
00:57:50and so I'm going to try putting on my climbing shoe and then I'm going to try putting on
00:57:55a size 42 tc pro over top of it to make my foot bigger
00:58:08I'm so excited about this
00:58:15and so what time are we thinking about starting
00:58:17let's say starting the monster at 6 a.m. which means starting climbing at 1 a.m.
00:58:22that's what I was hoping to do tonight
00:58:24you know
00:58:25I know
00:58:25get some
00:58:26you signed up for it
00:58:27yeah no no I'm into it
00:58:29knee pads and duct tape and elbow pads
00:58:31at this point you're going to get to the top more fresh than when you left the ground
00:58:34I think it'd be tough to make this more comfortable
00:58:38yeah that's the whole point
00:58:39I think it's yeah exactly
00:58:39we're ready for the the long haul right now
00:58:43I'm planning to have two partners
00:58:45it is really valuable to have Alex as a partner because he is so fast
00:58:50but up higher when the climbing gets slower
00:58:52I really like having Adrian there
00:58:55he's really good emotional support for me
00:59:05go get her go get her
00:59:07move slowly and then like see how I feel when I get to it
00:59:11yeah cool
00:59:12it's the same time tomorrow as today basically
00:59:14I do feel ready
00:59:15I don't think I'm going to be any more ready than I am right now
00:59:19if I achieve this I'll never not be a climber
00:59:23but I can like move on from being like solely focused on climbing
00:59:27like I can move forward with my life
00:59:29I can have a family like I could do all these things I've wanted to do
00:59:32that might not require so much like pinpointed focus
00:59:37it's that meaningful
01:00:03I can't get some ass off there
01:00:05I can't get some ass off there
01:00:05I can't get some ass off there
01:00:17at some point in here I'm going to have to tie my shoes and put them on
01:00:20but I'm sort of like oh I've got flashbacks of the last year
01:00:22PTSD
01:00:41I'm going to run around to the top and hopefully get to meet them like two-thirds of the way
01:00:45up
01:00:45I've got something to do
01:00:48nice am really smooth
01:00:53as am
01:00:54she's done for free blast
01:00:57yes
01:00:57great job did you
01:00:59how do you feel
01:01:00It's okay.
01:01:12I heard a call from the film team.
01:01:15Your dad might be starving the monster.
01:01:18It should be right on track.
01:01:27It's so funny that you're wearing two pairs of shoes.
01:02:05Oh, so glad to have that bitch over with.
01:02:08I'm taking off all of my shoes, all four pairs of them that I was wearing.
01:02:15I was wearing Alex's shoes over my shoes so I could climb the monster easier and faster,
01:02:20and it works.
01:02:25I'll say it's not often that I encounter a completely new rock climbing technique on a big wall.
01:02:29This is one of those times.
01:02:31You've styled the hard stuff.
01:02:34Next M is going to lead us to the summit of the mighty El Capitan.
01:02:38That's what's happening next.
01:02:51Good, huh?
01:02:52Really nice.
01:03:02Nice and relaxed.
01:03:10Trust the feet.
01:03:13Perfect.
01:03:13Perfect.
01:03:14That's the one.
01:03:15Perfect.
01:03:17Really good.
01:03:24Good, huh?
01:03:28Really good.
01:03:30Good, huh?
01:03:31I'm not coming down off the mountain until I set this route.
01:03:36I'm never climbing that bitchy end.
01:03:42Nice and really smooth.
01:03:50I gotta say, you look really fit right now.
01:03:52Yeah.
01:03:53Like, your arms are, like, muscular.
01:03:58Thanks, Alex.
01:04:00Like, have you been, like, working out more?
01:04:03Yeah.
01:04:05Been putting some effort in.
01:04:08Like, have you really?
01:04:08Because you look like freaking kind of jacks.
01:04:11Yeah.
01:04:12Yeah, dude.
01:04:12I have.
01:04:15Nice.
01:04:18Really good.
01:04:19Come on.
01:04:20So strong.
01:04:22Come on.
01:04:37That's it.
01:04:38Come on.
01:04:39Really good.
01:04:42Okay.
01:04:42Here we go.
01:04:47Here we go.
01:04:48Here we go.
01:04:48Here we go.
01:04:53I had to dig really deep for that one.
01:04:57I set the move pitch on my first try.
01:05:00Everything's going well.
01:05:03I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
01:05:27So exciting, up here, so fresh, could get dirt all over your face but otherwise looking
01:05:33good.
01:05:34Thanks Alex.
01:05:35Yeah.
01:05:36I feel good.
01:05:36He was infinitely better than last time.
01:06:06You got it man.
01:06:15No!
01:06:16No!
01:06:19Oh no.
01:06:24It's bleeding.
01:06:25Yeah I see.
01:06:26Just a little.
01:06:28Want me to bring you down?
01:06:29Yeah.
01:06:30Okay.
01:06:31A little.
01:06:32You're okay.
01:06:42I see how bad it is.
01:06:51Like I just don't know anymore about this whole hole.
01:06:55It just feels too hard for me.
01:07:01Stupid shit just keeps happening.
01:07:03Yeah.
01:07:04You're getting better and better every time.
01:07:06I know.
01:07:07I know.
01:07:08I know.
01:07:14I just don't feel good enough right now.
01:07:18I wanted it so badly and maybe I just wanted it too much.
01:07:32You're not done.
01:07:36You're not done.
01:07:40Stupid.
01:07:41Why did that have to happen?
01:07:43I didn't do anything wrong.
01:07:45I wasn't running it out.
01:07:46I wasn't doing anything wrong.
01:07:49I'm just scared now.
01:07:51You just bumped your head.
01:07:53You're fine.
01:07:55You didn't break anything.
01:07:57I know.
01:08:00I hope they all do it.
01:08:02You're gonna do it today.
01:08:10It's not hopeless.
01:08:12I promise.
01:08:13Okay.
01:08:14I'll try.
01:08:15I'll keep trying.
01:08:16I don't have that much confidence anymore.
01:08:20I think you've got more try than you.
01:08:23You know I'd tell you if I didn't.
01:08:25I don't.
01:08:26I don't.
01:08:26I think you can do it.
01:08:28I can try.
01:08:42I can try.
01:08:44I can try.
01:08:49I can try.
01:08:55I mean I was going to jump in.
01:08:55No, I can try.
01:09:01I can do it.
01:09:04I can try.
01:09:06Excuse me.
01:09:24Super good.
01:09:26You're super good.
01:09:28Come on.
01:09:29Yeah.
01:09:31No math part.
01:09:55Oh, my God.
01:10:38No matter what happens, I'm proud of myself.
01:10:42I'm really proud of myself.
01:10:44Look at the sunset.
01:10:49Oh!
01:10:54Gotta keep climbing.
01:10:57Trying to rest before the last hard pitch.
01:11:00The A5.
01:11:01Yeah.
01:11:02The sight of...
01:11:05Last time's failure?
01:11:07Last year's failure?
01:11:07Mm-hmm.
01:11:08Yeah.
01:11:09Pretty nervous for it.
01:11:12And we're out of water.
01:11:14Yeah, we are out of water.
01:11:15That sucks.
01:11:15Poor mountain guide planning.
01:11:22You look great.
01:11:23So proud of you.
01:11:24Have fun on this.
01:11:26This is the pitch you earned.
01:11:35Come on.
01:11:40Come on.
01:11:44Come on.
01:11:47Come on.
01:12:02Come on.
01:12:04Come on.
01:12:10There we are.
01:12:12Come on.
01:12:14Come on.
01:12:17Come on.
01:12:17Come on.
01:12:18Come on.
01:12:22Come on.
01:12:25Come on.
01:12:27You know what to do.
01:12:52Come on.
01:12:56Come on.
01:13:04No!
01:13:09Oh, my God.
01:13:11Emily!
01:13:12Woo-hoo!
01:13:20Oh, my God!
01:13:23Woo-hoo!
01:13:25Holy shit, Emily!
01:13:34I can't believe I did that.
01:13:36Okay, I've got to keep it together.
01:13:38We've got five more pitches.
01:13:41Oh, my God.
01:13:43Dude, that's going so bad.
01:13:45Ladies and gentlemen,
01:13:47I've always dreamed of being able to do this.
01:13:49And now it's happening,
01:13:51and it's just crazy how it's happening.
01:13:54It was so close so many times to falling just now.
01:13:57So close.
01:13:59But I just didn't fucking let go.
01:14:01I know.
01:14:20Ha!
01:14:21Oh.
01:14:22Oh.
01:14:40Fuck you!
01:14:42Fuck you!
01:15:01I'm really, really happy and exhausted.
01:15:05My head kind of hurts.
01:15:07I'm thirsty.
01:15:09And everything is perfect.
01:15:16I love you so much.
01:15:18Fuck you.
01:15:19Fuck you.
01:15:21You did it.
01:15:22You did it.
01:15:27I'm so proud of you.
01:15:28You worked so hard.
01:15:33And you believed.
01:15:35Yeah.
01:15:382112.
01:15:392113.
01:15:54Mm-hmm.
01:16:05You heard that.
01:16:07Mm-hmm.
01:16:30Can I go say hi to everyone?
01:16:31Nice work.
01:16:32Thanks.
01:16:33Well done.
01:16:34You look worse.
01:16:37Actually, you look pretty good.
01:16:38He's went downhill a little bit after he left.
01:16:41I don't know.
01:16:41You have to make it after it, dude.
01:16:43Why'd you leave us?
01:16:45Oh, my God.
01:16:46That is so good.
01:16:50Dude.
01:16:53Oh, my God.
01:16:55That is so good.
01:17:11Hey, I knew this.
01:17:14Hey!
01:17:14Hey!
01:17:18Hey!
01:17:43I can still hear her voice in my head.
01:17:49And I think about whenever something's hard or something comes up that feels tricky or
01:17:58feels complicated, especially as like a woman and a mother, I try to think about how Hillary
01:18:06would handle it.
01:18:19Climbing is dangerous and it entails a level of risk, but climbing has given me so much
01:18:25and I'm just not willing to give it up.
01:18:33I'm excited for what's next.
01:18:35Bye-bye.
01:18:38Bye-bye.
01:18:56I know the rise and I know the fall, cause the voice inside knows me best of all.
01:19:09If I can't run, I'll walk or crawl, I'll restart, restart, I'll give my all to find my place,
01:19:26my place on the wall.
01:19:44I'll follow the path into the sky to kiss the heavens before I die.
01:19:58Amidst the clouds, the world seems small.
01:20:04His tired heart still wants it all.
01:20:10I'll find my place, my place on the wall.
01:20:18I'll find my place, my place on the wall.
01:20:25Have given me the Ruins of the river.
01:20:28Been through the Lord.
01:20:30I'm giving my all.
01:20:32I'm giving my all.
01:20:32Given my all.
01:20:34That I'm giving my all for my place on the wall.
01:20:39I'm through the path, I'm giving my all.
01:20:40Been through the path, I'm giving my all.
01:20:44I am giving my all.
01:20:45I'm giving my all.
01:20:46I'm giving my all.
01:20:55My place, my heart, my place on the wall
01:21:00I found my place, my place on the wall
01:21:55I found my place, my place on the wall
01:21:55I found my place, my place on the wall
Comments