Michaela Kiersch sends Siurana's La Rambla (9a+)
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Colette McInerney
America's Michaela Kiersch is understandably over the moon with her repeat of one of the world's most famous 9a+, La Rambla (9a+) at Siurana, Spain. The 28-year-old climbing coach and Occupational Therapist sent the route earlier today, after having started working the line for the first time ever earlier this month.
Established by Germany's Alexander Huber in 1994 to a pocket at 3/4 height way back in 1994 and subsequently extended to the top of the crag by Ramón Julián Puigblanque in 2003, during the last three decades this immensely beautiful stamina test has transformed into one of the most coveted routes of its grade. The first female ascent was carried out in 2017 by Margo Hayes who, in doing so, became the first woman in the world to climb 9a+, while 19-year-old Chaehyun Seo from South Korea repeated the line in November 2022.
La Rambla is Kiersch's first 9a+. In September 2021 she sent her first 9a, Dreamcatcher at Squamish, while in May 2022 she repeated the 8B+ boulder problem New Base Line at Magic Wood in Switzerland.
Michaela Kiersch is sponsored by: Petzl, adidas, Organic Climbing
TOPO: Siurana, Spain
La Rambla
First ascent: Alexander Huber, 1994
Extension: Ramón Julián Puigblanque 2003
2006 - Edu Marín Garcia, Spain
2006 - Chris Sharma, USA
2007 - Andreas Bindhammer, Germany
2007 - Patxi Usobiaga, Spain
2008 - Adam Ondra, Czech Republic, aged 15
2011 - Enzo Oddo, France
2013 - Sachi Amma, Japan
2013 - Felix Neumärker, Germany
2013 - Sangwon Son, South Korea
2013 - Alexander Megos, Germany, second attempt
2014 - Daniel Jung, Germany
2015 - Jonathan Siegrist, USA
2017 - Matty Hong, USA
2017 - Margo Hayes, USA, first female 9a+
2017 - Stefano Ghisolfi, Italy
2017 - Jacopo Larcher, Italy
2017 - Klemen Bečan, Slovenia
2017 - Sébastian Bouin, France
2018 - Tomás Ravanal, Chile
2018 - Jon Cardwell, USA
2019 - Piotr Schab, Poland
2019 - Dave Graham, USA
2019 - Gonzalo Larrocha, Spain
2019 - Cédric Lachat, Switzerland
2021 - Jorge Díaz-Rullo, ESP
2022 - Chaehyun Seo, ROK
2023 - Michaela Kiersch, USA
