On Jan. 28, professional climber Emily Harrington joined a Forever Buffs Spotlight zoom event to talk about her historical single day free climb of El Capitan via Golden Gate at Yosemite National Park in 2020. Over the hour-long zoom call, the University of Colorado Boulder graduate outlined her journey from a youth climber to joining the North Face Global Athlete Team and accomplishing several climbing feats.
Harrington became the first woman to free climb the 41-pitch route in a day and is just the fourth climber ever to climb El Capitan in a day.