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Meet Emily Harrington, 1st woman to free-climb El Capitan famed route in 1 day
A 34-year-old woman, Emily Harrington, has become the first woman to free-climb the famed Golden Gate route of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in under 24 hours. Natalie Morales reports and Harrington joins TODAY live from Tahoe City, California. She describes the moment she slipped and gashed her forehead, then decided, “I deserved to try one more time.”