"A few months later, Harrington gradually began to distance herself from competition, overcame a difficult relationship with her weight, and transformed herself into a big-wall climber, even a mountaineer. Nobody could have imagined it in 2008. The girl who at just 10 years old asked for ropes and harnesses at Christmas, who would go on to be proclaimed a five-times national sport climbing champion, turned towards the mountains: I had already done everything I was capable of doing in the world of competition, she said."
"By then, she had already begun ice and mixed climbing, a transformation that would also lead her to Ama Dablam (6,812 m) in 2013 and to climb and ski Cho Oyu (8,201 m) in 2016, alongside her partner Adrian Ballinger."
Emily Harrington began climbing at age ten and became a five-time national sport climbing champion and 2005 World Championship runner-up. She gradually left competition after 2008, overcame struggles with weight, and redirected her focus to big-wall climbing and mountaineering. In 2012 she summited Mount Everest with supplemental oxygen, then pursued ice and mixed climbing that led to Ama Dablam in 2013 and climbing and skiing Cho Oyu in 2016 with partner Adrian Ballinger. Harrington developed expertise in self-protecting big-wall routes without fixed anchors, making Yosemite and El Capitan her primary objectives. In 2015 she spent six days free-climbing Golden Gate, a 950-meter, 41-pitch route.
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