Brittany Goris 2.0
Meet Brittany Goris, the queen of self-reinvention
Brittany Goris’s feet paste against the greasy granite of the Lower Town Wall in Index, Washington, as the sun dips below the Cascades. Her fingers on the verge of sliding from the tips locks on City Park, the 5.13d crack freed by Todd Skinner in 1986, Goris pushes through. She hooks her heel—barely—then snags a sloper, marking the end of the crux. She lets out a victory cry—it’s July 2018, and Goris has just made the route’s first female ascent, even though she’s only been trad-climbing for about a year.
Full story and images are featured in Climbing Magazine’s December 2019 Issue