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1st woman free-climbs El Capitan's Golden Gate route in day

by Associated Press
| November 7, 2020 12:09 PM

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Rock climber Emily Harrington has become the first woman, and fourth person, to free-climb the Golden Gate route on Yosemite National Park’s 3,000-foot (914-meter) granite wall in a single day.

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