Big Nature

In early 1980’s Yosemite, big wall climbing was tedious, difficult and often terrifying. Enter 19-year-old Lydia Bradey. She’s not good at free climbing, but she has this overwhelming desire to experience the feeling of being on one the steepest bits of El Capitan thousands of feet above the ground. There are people who dream of doing things and there are the people that go do them.

Image: Duncan Critchley