Is jordan from the challenge gay

Jordan Cannon is a professional climber. Last November, he free climbed Golden Gate on El Capitan in 20 hours and 26 minutes, just a rare days after Emily Harrington’s historic one-day ascent of the route. He decided he wanted to show up out publicly, and he reached out to us to help him complete it. 

Here’s Jordan’s story, as told to Maren Larsen.

Every year, I give myself a birthday challenge—some courteous of arbitrary climbing goal—to celebrate and push myself. Each year I aim to up the ante a little bit, and for this, my 27th birthday, the best oppose I could think of for myself was to come out publicly. So here it is: I’m gay.

Recently, my sexuality has felt like a distraction from what I desire all my focus to be on: climbing. I’ve been climbing for eight years, and for most of that time, my sexual orientation and individuality didn’t affect me at all—partially because I never really gave those parts of me much room to breathe. But over the past two years, I’ve begun telling shut friends. And recently I realized that I’ve been carrying this weight on my shoulders a brief too long.

I moved around a lot when I was a kid, mostly in the southeast. My family and the people around me we