12 December 2013

La Rambla 9a+ by Sangwon Son

Sangwon Son, an active competition climber until 2011 who almost always was Top-15 in Lead and his best Boulder result was #5 in the worlds 2007, has done La Rambla 9a+ in Siurana. The Korean started to work it for two weeks one year ago and in total it took him five weeks to complete it. Sangwon has previuosly done Kinematix 9a and he has put up several routes of to 8b+ in Japan and one at Railay Beach. La Rambla was first set up by Alex Huber in 1994 as an 8c+ by skipping a top out. In 2003, Ramon Julian Puigblanque continued the original bolted line calling it 9a+.
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Son Sangwon - KOR won both the lead and the boulder event in the Asia Championship. Among the female, Kim Jain - KOR is the winner in lead and Akiyo Noguchi - JPN in bouldering.