Thousands gather every year for a chance to witness one of Yosemite National Park’s most incredible natural phenomena known as Firefall at Horsetail Fail. If you’ve ever visited Yosemite National Park in the summer, you may not have noticed or heard of Horsetail Fall. It’s a thin silver of a waterfall that flows off the face of El Captain. Just a few weeks every year in February, this magical event occurs where the sun directs a beam of light at the waterfall turning in into what can only be described as molten lava.

Nobody warned me we were going to climb straight up a frozen waterfall! Completely unprepared without micro-spikes I found myself slipping and sliding over boulders and snow. For most of the climb, I had a constant feeling of how I was barley escaping death with each fall that didn’t send me flying down the mountain