Tuesday, January 12, 2010

For Sergio to climb...

OK....after this long break this is my third post in 96hours or so. After this, I guess I'll take another 6 month break ;-) This is a video....an example for Sergio......from Cataluna. I want to see the same video with you in it Sergi. I would do it but then again it is too far to Spain just for a video, jiji

Rumble in the jungle or...



La Rambla

Enjoy! Waiting for your next post with the video Sergi.

Have a good night, good morning or whatever it is where you are.

6 comments:

Tati said...

ufff, good luck Sergio, this is super hard!!!!

Sergio said...

La Rambla, in Siurana, is one of the hardest routes climbed so far: 9a+ or 5.15a. And it has a quite interesting history. It was first tried by one of the best bad-ass climbers alive: Alex Huber. He tried this route many many times, falling several times very close to the top. Then, a hold in the very last part of the rout broke and the route was considered unclimbable, so Alex moved the anchor a bit down and climbed up to that point, giving the route a grade of 9a, which was almost unheard of at that time (except for "Action Direct" of W. Gullich. La Rambla "original", the one to the very top, was tried for many years by one of the best Spanish climbers, Dani Andrada. He even promise to to shave untl he got up that route. But he never was able to climb it and eventually shaved, and move to other projects (he's climbed several 9a+ now, and a proposed 9b I think). Then, it was another spanish climber, Ramonet, who got the second ascend and first of the whole line. He gave the route a grade of 9a+. It attracted a lot of the top-climbers, including Yuji Hirayama and Chris Sharma (in that video, probably one of the strongest climbers of all times). But it was another spaniard, Edu Marín, who got the third ascent right in front of their noeses in an incredible low number of attempts. Few days later, Chris got the third ascent of La Rambla Original, and then they shot this video. The route is so hard, that to date it has been climbed only by six people, and if you check their names, you'll find out that they are probably the strongest in the world. Of course, my name will be among them in no time :P

Sergio said...

By the way, I'm very happy you got the climbing fever.... but dude, couldn't you get it some months earlier, when I was still in San Diego????. We could have climbed a lot together!!!

Gogi said...

We will climb together! Let me climb a bit and try to get a bit closer (5.10b) to your level (5.15) ;-)
Thanks for the info about La Rambla.
I guess, you'll have to come over here now for some climbing or I have to visit you...Antonio and Tati are getting too strong...starting with their 5.11's

un abrazo

Sergio said...
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Sergio said...

There are fantastic climbs in the 5.7-5.9 range. And you guys are very close to my level already: 5.11a is the hardest I've ever top-roped in San Diego (Jaws, in Woodson). I did Eric's face (5.11a/b) with a couple of hangdogs, and the same happened for Orange Sunshine (5.11a) in Mission Gorge. I needed 1 or 3 hangdogs to get to the top. In fact, my hardest lead in San Diego, I think, is 10a/b in Mission Gorge and 10a in Woodson (Robins Crack).