After hearing a lot about Montgrony the last year or so we finally made a visit to this legendary climbing area earlier this week. We where blown away. It's not big, about 300 routes in total, but the quality of the climbing is just fantastic. To fully enjoy the venue I would say it's good [...]
A lone climber on the left part of sector Vermell de Xincarró. Click the photo for help locating the climber. Are you planning a visit to Montserrat in the near future? Within a month, temperatures will drop and the south side of Montserrat will be a very good option for climbing near Barcelona. Sport climbing [...]
Paco Rey working Falconetti, 8b+, in Montsant. He managed to send it in May, just before the summer heat. It's the time of the year when the weather for the big sends have arrived here in Catalonia, north-east Spain. It is fun to see all the web sites starting to report one amazing tick after [...]
The village of Perles as seen from the crags [nggallery id=4] In the northern part of the province of Catalonia, in the comarca Alt Urgell, lays a small village named Perles. The area of Alt Urgell holds an immense amount of climbing but the question is not if the cliffs above Perles has the highest [...]
Margalef, the little valley on the west side of the Montsant mountain close to Siurana, boasts some amazing climbing. Here you have > 600 routes from grade 4 to the latest Sharma 9a+ test piece. Here the american Sasha DiGiulian (born -92) easily sends Transilvania, 8a. I like that the little cloud showed up just [...]