This elite climbing couple tackles Everest and El Capitan while still keeping the romance alive.
Some couples worry about how to manage a week apart on business trips. Emily Harrington and Adrian Ballinger -- among the top rock climbers and mountaineers, respectively -- worry about how to spend months several thousand miles apart while they both make potentially life-threatening attempts at groundbreaking physical feats on the edges of human capacity.
"The idea of free climbing El Cap in a day is kind of the epitome of achievement in big wall climbing," she told ABC News in April."For me, it's like absolute perfection in climbing. As close as I'm ever going to get to it." Along with Alpenglow Expeditions, Ballinger is the expedition leader for four projects on Everest, including a research project for which he'll be attempting to spend as much time as physically possible -- as many as eight days, he hopes -- above 8,000 meters -- sometimes referred to as the"death zone."
"And now the novelty of all that has worn off," Harrington said."You're like, 'Really? You want to go there? OK, cool, like, we'll just spend another month apart, um...'" That also means when they reunite, they don't have a whole life experience to catch each other up on, so their reintegration into being a couple, together, is easier.
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