At a generally quite depressing time - November being bad enough on its own, looming Christmas etc [yes; I'm a grumpy sociopath!], never mind all the current travails - this seems like an inspiring glimmer of light:
Yes, quite an achievement, the fall with the rope around her neck sounds particularly gruesome. I can’t imagine 41 pitches of that difficulty in under 24 hours... or indeed just 1!
Various reports of this being the first female free ascent on el cap in a day. Am I missing something as I thought Lynn Hill did this first in '94 (Nose) and at least a couple of others have also done this since then.
