The Mentorship Sessions E5 Emily Harrington and Hazel Findlay

About this episode

In this episode, Emily Harrington and Hazel Findlay discuss their climbing careers, mentorship, and the impact of motherhood on their approach to risk and mental training.

In this final episode of the mini series The Mentorship Sessions, we are delighted to be joined by Emily Harrington and Hazel Findlay. Both of these women have accolades and accomplishments that speak for themselves, but let go ahead and name a few to start off. Emily was the fourth woman ever to free climb El Cap in a day, and the first woman to do so via the Golden Gate route, she's summited Mount Everest, is a very accomplished comp climber, and has the first female ascent of a number of worldwide 5.14s. Meanwhile Hazel has been a pro climber for over a decade, she was the first woman to climb a trad route rated E9, she's put up multiple first ascents on big walls, she was the 3rd person to send Magic Line (5.14c) in Yosemite, and is the Founder of StrongMind which focuses on mental training and fear management. The two of them were once teammates on the North Face team and went on a number of adventures across the world including a trip to big wall in Morocco, which we get into. They both discuss how becoming a mother has changed their approach to fear and risk management, and how to trust (and when not to trust) a mentor, setting boundaries, and their own mental training…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kyra Condie, Allison Vest

Guests: Emily Harrington, Hazel Findlay

Topics covered

• mentorship
• climbing
• mental training
• risk management
• motherhood

Keywords

• climbing
• mentorship
• risk management
• mental training
• motherhood
• El Cap
• Everest

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: StrongMind

Books & works: Magic Line

Places: Morocco