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1KHO 920: You Don't Have To Prove Yourself Anymore | Emily Harrington, Girl Climber
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What happens when reaching the top isn’t really the point? In this episode, Ginny sits down with legendary climber Emily Harrington, star of the Netflix documentary Girl Climber, to explore the years-long journey that made her the first woman to free-climb Yosemite’s Golden Gate route on El Capitan in under 24 hours. Emily takes listeners inside the extraordinary physical and mental demands of climbing—from navigating massive falls and practicing individual pitches thousands of feet above the ground to learning when to push forward, when to reassess, and how to turn failure into information. But this conversation is about much more than climbing. Emily opens up about the pressure to prove…