“As she climbed, she repeated a mantra: ‘Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.’” In awe of emilyaharrington’s free climb of El Cap 👸 We’re all about that mantra too. Slow and smooth is fast with years of practice girl 🙌😉 #freeclimb #elcap #badasswomen #Repost nytimes ・・・ In her fourth attempt last Wednesday night, Emily Harrington became the fourth person — and the first woman — to scale El Capitan via the Golden Gate route in under 24 hours by free-climbing it, pulling herself upward with her hands and feet and using ropes and other gear only as a safety net. El Capitan, known as El Cap, is a 3,000-foot-high granite edifice that draws thousands of climbers to Yosemite National Park in California each year. Climbers typically take around 4 to 6 days to reach the top, using a variety of routes. Only a few elite climbers, emilyaharrington now among them, have done it in less than a day. During a free-climb ascent, a climber goes up one pitch, then stops and is followed by a belayer,...