An elite professional climber “pin balled” down Yosemite’s El Capitan — 3,000 feet of sheer vertical rock — on Sunday, sustaining scrapes and bruises but surviving with assistance from the climber whose ascent of the same cliff is profiled in the Oscar-winning film “Free Solo.”

Emily Harrington, a 33-year-old world-class climber, raised her fingers in a peace sign in a photo posted to Instagram from her hospital bed at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, saying she was “extremely grateful” for those who helped her “get out.”

A second photo shows a purple slash of rope-burn on her neck.

“I’m banged up but gonna be ok thankfully,” Harrington wrote. “Not much to say except I took a bad fall and pin balled a bit then somehow hit the rope w my neck.”

Harrington credited Yosemite Search and Rescue and elite climbers with her at the time, including Alex Honnold, for helping rescue her. Honnold was profiled in the National Geographic film “Free Solo” when he became the first person to successfully climb El Capitan alone with no ropes or harnesses, a death-defying feat.

Two friends fell to their deaths while climbing El Capitan last summer, the 25th fatal accident on the daunting precipice, according to Climbing.com.

Harrington is a resident of Squaw Valley and five-time national sport climbing champion, two-time North American champion and runner-up in the Sport Climbing World Championships, according to North Face, which sponsors her.

Harrington free-climbed Golden Gate, a 5.13-grade route on El Capitan, in six days in 2015, according to Rock and Ice.

“The entire experience was probably one of the more difficult challenges in my climbing career,” Harrington told Rock and Ice in 2015. “By the end I was barely able to keep it together, all of my tips were split open, and I was really scared in a lot of moments. I have an enormous amount of respect for people who excel at granite big-wall, free-climbing now.”

She recently had been attempting to free-climb the route from base to summit in a single day, Gripped reported.

Anna Bauman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: anna.bauman@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @abauman2