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Climbing Gold

Lynn Hill: A Magician Needs A Stage

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8849 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

El Cap. Free. In a day. Putting those words on your resume puts you in the league of legends. How did that become the bar? Lynn Hill. A singular athlete who stepped up to the biggest stage in climbing, Lynn redefined what was athletically possible not just for her generation, but generations to come. Emily Harrington and Beth Rodden add their perspective on the momentous achievement.  “It Goes Boys” poster Thanks to our sponsors The North Face  Henson Shaving Use link and enter CLIMBINGGOLD at checkout to get 100 free blades with your purchase. (Note: Add both the 100-blade pack and the razor for the discount to apply.). COROS Use code CLIMBINGGOLD to get a free watch carabiner with the purchase of a VERTIX 2s watch when both items are in your cart.  Altitude Climbing: Sign up for a free mini-training that Hazel and Altitude have put together to bust some of the biggest myths and faulty advice when it comes to overcoming fear of falling at altitudeclimbing.com/climbinggold LMNT Use link to get a free LMNT sample pack with any order

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0:00.0

We've been getting a few emails with suggestions for stories, interviews, and we love that.

0:04.5

That is great. It's incredible.

0:06.3

But it also has made us realize that there's more of you listening than when we launched the show back in 2021.

0:12.7

That first season, we wanted to do our best to look at the past, present, and future of climbing.

0:17.3

And when we sat down to figure out who we would want to talk to, there was one climber.

0:21.8

We knew we absolutely had to include Lynn Hill.

0:26.4

And we've gotten a few emails being like, why haven't you interviewed Lynn?

0:30.0

And in fact, we have.

0:31.5

So today we are pulling one out of the archives and revisiting our interview with Lynn Hill.

0:37.6

Enjoy.

0:42.8

So for me, the objective of free climbing elk happen a day was kind of like the epitome of my

0:52.8

climbing career.

0:57.2

In my head, it's like something that I had built up the skills for since I started climbing when I was 10 years old, if that makes sense.

1:04.7

Like it's so complex a goal and it requires so many different skills and so many different styles and so much

1:17.3

experience and so much so many logistics that for me it really felt like like the culmination of

1:24.0

all of my you know two two plus decades of of. My name is Emily Harrington, and I have

1:31.9

been climbing for 24 years at this point. Through her career, Emily has evolved into one of the best

1:39.9

all-around climbers out there. She started by dominating the competition circuit. She's a five-time

1:45.6

U.S. national champion in sport climbing, and of course she's a 514 sport climber. She's honed her skills

1:50.4

to the point where she could free climb El Cap. She's also summoned at Everest and skied off the top

1:55.7

of Choyoyou, which is the sixth tallest mountain in the world, which is basically one of the most

1:59.3

well-rounded climbing skill sets you can imagine. I mean, skiing the biggest mountains in the world, which is basically one of the most well-rounded climbing skill sets, you can imagine.

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