Adrian Ballinger and Emily Harrington plan to climb the world’s sixth tallest mountain in record time. If they’re successful, it could launch a whole new type of commercial mountaineering.

Adrian Ballinger and Emily Harrington plan to climb the world’s sixth tallest mountain in record time. If they’re successful, it could launch a whole new type of commercial mountaineering.
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The First Female Ascent is a paradox—it’s at once pushing women forward and simultaneously holding them back.
After all, climbing is not simply about performance, but about challenging ourselves again and again to seek out new experiences, new challenges and new routes.
Emily Harrington has big goals for 2015 – from free climbing Golden Gate (5.13) on El Capitan to completing Makalu sans oxygen.
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