Second ascent of 'La Rambla' 9a+ by Edu Marin



Update!! American dream hunk Chris Sharma has made the third accent of this forty meter testpiece. 

Chris Sharma, Dave Graham, Yuji Hirayama, Edu Marin and Dany Andrada were all in Spain attempting the second ascent of this mythic route. The Catalan Edu Marin reached the first the top yesterday.

Read more in spanish on: www.desnivel.com
Interview of Edu Marin (in spanish) : www.desnivel.com

In english on : www.freakclimbing.com


La Rambla original, 9a+ is pointed by red, the blue points are Huber´s variant for 8c+.
There is a bit chaos in the upper part now - to the left benches 3 more routes: 8c a two 8c+´s. (hi res)

photo by © Ondras archive




Yuji Hirayama in La Rambla, 9a+

photo by © Evrard Wendenbaum




Chris Sharma in La Rambla, 9a+

photo by © Evrard Wendenbaum




Yuji Hirayama in La Rambla, 9a+

photo by © Evrard Wendenbaum


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Cedric   [edit] 14:16 01.12.2006

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