How Thousands of Feet Above Ground Rock Climbers Sleep?

Married professional climbers share what it feels like to wake up hanging off the side of a mountainMarried professional climbers share what it feels like to wake up hanging off the side of a mountain

In November 2018, Hodgins became the first Canadian woman to free climb El Capitan with her five-day ascent of Freerider — the 3,000-foot route made famous (to non-climbers, anyway) by Alex Honnold in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo.” (Free soloing is done without a rope. Free climbing — the way Hodgins climbs — is when you use a rope and place gear in the rock as a safety net but try to never put your weight on the gear or rope as you climb. The term “free climbing” means you’re climbing free from direct aid. Aid climbing is a style of climbing where you reach the top by any means necessary, pulling or hanging on gear to haul yourself up the cliff.)

Bronwyn Hodgins and Jacob CookHow to sleep on a big wall using a portaledge