# @leadsportsco on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdf8Cigj6B
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16426175-leadsportsco-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/9557a00ae0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-11-11T18:42:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Lead Sports Co. 🙋‍♀️ (@leadsportsco) — https://gondola.cc/leadsportsco

## Caption

“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, a person attached to the other end of the rope. If the climber falls, she returns to the bottom of the pitch and begins again.
 
As she climbed, she repeated a mantra: “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”
 
Tap the link in our bio for more on her record-breaking climb. Photo by jonglassberg/louderthan11

## Stats

- **Views:** 0
- **Likes:** 86
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 1

## Tags

elcap, badasswomen, repost, freeclimb

---
Copyright (c) Gondola