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El Osteopata 9a FA by Alex Ventajas
Can you tell us more about the first ascent?
I can’t imagine a better way to start the new year. The route is a project bolted in 2014-2015 by my friends Rafi and Oscar. I gave it a try back then, but it seemed too hard for me. For the Christmas holidays, I went back to Murcia to visit my family and I felt motivated again after seeing some videos of other local climbers trying the route.
It’s a quite “old school” line: a technical roof climbing, with chipped pockets, very small feet, and a lot of body tension. There’s no place for mistakes and saving as much energy as possible in every section is crucial. Even if it’s not a natural line, all the boulder problems are great climbing and I enjoyed refining every detail to find the perfect sequence to send the route! I went to the cave for four days and I finally managed to send it on my ninth attempt. About the grade, I think it’s 9a. I hope other climbers will repeat it soon and give their opinion too! After the Santuario sector was shut down, this could be the region’s first 9a.
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