La Rambla (climb)

La Rambla is a 41-metre (135 ft) sport climb at the limestone El Pati crag in Siurana, Catalonia in Spain.

[7] Huber explained in a 2008 interview that he felt his 35-metre route was no more difficult than Wolfgang Güllich's 1991 ascent of Action Directe that was then graded 8c+ (5.14c).

Instead, it was later freed on 8 March 2003 by Spanish climber Ramón Julián Puigblanque,[10] who redpointed the 35-metre route five times, and only completed Andrada's 6-metre extension after forty failed attempts.

[12] It took three years until La Rambla was repeated by Edu Marín i Garcia [ca] and Chris Sharma, on successive days in 2006.

[18] La Rambla is described as having a diverse range of "cracks, pockets, crimps, side pulls, and underclings", but is also "sustained", and "continually overhanging".

[19] At this stage, the climber is approaching the location of Huber's original anchor (since removed), and the climbing becomes even more overhanging "with violent moves on small holds and crimps".

[24] When French climber Sébastien Bouin made the 20th ascent in December 2017, he said, "This route is a piece of climbing history".

The El Pati crag (from the road) is the distinctive cliff with deep horizontal lines at back right. [ 3 ]