
11 September 2012
Spanish girls cranking hard during this Summer
After 3 Summers trying it, suffering not-so-good conditions, abandoning it for big walls abroad and, more recently, having to fight against herself, by the beginning of August, Andrea Cartas was eventually able to clip the anchor of the mythic 8c in Baltzola, White Zombie. In her scorecard she writes: "Thanks everybody for the support!! I only needed to believe in myself... the best line of my life and a moment to be remembered forever..."
Here you can read the interview we had with her (in Spanish), together with beautiful pics taken by her husband and also strong climber, Carlos Padilla.
Another strong Spanish girl during this Summer has been Mar รlvarez, who in two weeks clipped the chains of her first two 8b+ routes, Ixeia and Tripa de Conejo, both in Rodellar.
Our Spanish editor, Ignacio Sandoval Burรณn, also had an interview with Mar shortly after she sent the first of those two routes.
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