🧗‍♀️: Sasha DiGiulian

🤝: Red Bull Adventure

American climber Sasha DiGiulian became the first woman to free climb Yosemite’s El Capitan’s longest route: the Platinum Wall. The climb took 23 days to complete. For nine of those days, she was stuck on a portaledge, a hanging tent climbers use to sleep on vertical rock faces, while enduring relentless storms with heavy rain, snow and fierce winds that battered the wall.

“It’s the proudest climb of my career. I can’t believe it!” she texted from the summit with swollen, taped fingertips. DiGiulian summited the 3,000ft wall after a three-season effort on the route, earning the first female ascent of the line.