22 June 2017

Failure and success for Cardwell on La Rambla and Papichulo

Jon Cardwell spent some three weeks including 30 tries on La Rambla but no success. "It was very hard for me, mostly because I arrived to Spain with poor endurance. It was good training for Oliana (Papichilo) though! More than anything, it was a mental challenge for me as I kept falling at a single move, just before the main crux. It would be my opinion that with current standards, to climb to the move where you stab for a left hand two-finger pocket is most certainly a 9a; roughly where the original climb ends. What remains, with the best beta, is no more than 7c route in itself. However, people have fallen past this move to the pocket. Most certainly an impressive ascent in 1994 and one of the most difficult routes in the world at that time.
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