Buster Martin repeats The Full Journey (9b)

Buster Martin, with five 9a+’ under his harness, has completed The full journey (9b) in Margalef. During the process, Buster climbed the opening 9a+ pitch around 15 times before completing the full route. Interestingly, the 29-year-old works full time as an online climbing coach and has no gear or shoe sponsor.

The route climbs the blank right-hand side of the huge Finestra overhang, running parallel with Cafe Colombia.

The opening pitch, The Journey (9a+), is around 30 moves of steep power endurance climbing on monos and two-finger pockets with almost no real rests, finishing at a large shakeout. From there, the route continues through an 8A+ crux and a final slap to the top of the wall. Although the chains are lower, the ascent was continued to the top-out.

The climb takes around 10 minutes on the wall in total and felt very different from the shorter, more powerful routes Buster usually prefers.