ali k

...living in catalunya...climbing the rocks...

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Location
reus, spain

Best Climbing Experience
too many to choose a best but these are some memorable ones (most recent first)

- watching the first sunrise of 2012 from 'la guerre sainte' in wadi rum. up there with 'fiesta' as a contender for the best multipitch sport route ever

- climbing on the naranjo de bulnes with a perfect cloud inversion below, following a week waiting in the cloud and rain [after an entire night of throwing up and stomach cramps, getting up at 4am and climbing for 12hrs was also THE worst climbing experience of my life!]

- 'fiesta de los biceps' at riglos. the best multipitch sport route in the world – ‘nuff said

- finishing salbit west ridge after a looong day climbing and a monumental epic the night before

- a week in cavallers with perfect weather, amazing granite, no people, and beautiful wild camping

- clipping the chains of 'kalea borroka' after months of effort – the route I had most wanted to do since arriving in siurana (and also my first F8b+)

- soloing 'electric blue' at rhoscolyn in the late evening sunshine at the end of a great day of on-sighting

- topping out on stetind (arctic norway) at midnight with a beautiful orange sunset/sunrise over the fjords...then rushing back down to the tent before the rain started

- flashing 'l’abbe resina' straight out of the car after driving through the night to font...then chilling for the rest of the morning in the forest with beer & pastries

- 'high noon' at caley. by no means my hardest, but probably the route I’d most wanted to on-sight

- first ever trip to font - young, psyched, crammed into a formula 1 with good mates and totally blown away by it

Recent Postings

Climbing around Barcelona on 03-May-13
Wanted: Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens for Nikon on 01-May-13
FS: Spooks Series 6 & 7 on DVD on 29-Apr-13
FS: Thule 982 Bike adaptor on 29-Apr-13
FS: Protec Skate/Watersport helmet on 29-Apr-13
FS: Men's Aqualung 5.5mm 'shorty' wetsuit on 29-Apr-13
FS: Men's Aqualung 5.5mm diving wetsuit on 29-Apr-13

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registered 01/Nov/05
updated 27/Nov/12

Age
29

Best Onsights
Trad - E6
Sport - 8a
Bouldering - f7C

Worked Grades
Trad - E8
Sport - 8b+
Bouldering - f8A

Favourite Climbs
kalea borroka - siurana
end of the affair - curbar
fiesta de los biceps - riglos
murciana route - naranjo de bulnes
la guerre sainte - wadi rum
itaca nel sole + rattle snake - orco
west ridge - salbitschijen
positron - gogarth
vestpillaren - lofoten islands
tyrion - haegefjell
the axe - cloggy
zoolook - malham
mirage - ceuse
el marginao - arbolí
venus - balme de yenne
narcissus - froggatt
mescalito - malham
supersonic - high tor
the moon - gogarth
energia positiva - terradets
pinnacle arete/hand traverse - cloggy
silly arete - tremadog
high noon - caley
edge lane - millstone
cala goloritze - sardinia
requiem - cratcliffe
downhill racer - froggatt
right wall - cromlech
archangel - stanage
bow wall - bosigran
freeborn man - connor cove
heaven crack - stanage
regent street - millstone
botterill's slab - scafell
aviation - hay tor
rainbow games - carn gowla

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