His First Multi-Pitch is a 240-metre 5.14a
Jorge Díaz-Rullo's first multi-pitch is a huge 5.14. He followed it up with an onsight of another multi-pitch 5.13
Top Spanish climber Jorge Díaz-Rullo has climbed the 240-metre Tarragó 5.14a on a tall conglomerate tower in Montserrat. It was his first time ever climbing a multi-pitch route. He teamed up with Anghelo Bernal Quintero for the climb, which they sent in a day.
Díaz-Rullo attempted Tarragó a few weeks before his redpoint, but bailed due to bad weather and not knowing about multi-pitch rope systems. After his send, he said, “It wasn’t easy at all having to fight physically against high fatigue and mentally against a succession of broken holds during my ascent.”
He followed it up with an onsight of Directa de l’amistat, another 240-metre route graded 5.13b. Díaz-Rullo is one of the world’s top 5.15 climbers with routes like Mejorando la Samfaina 5.15c in Spain, which he made the first ascent of – read about his FA here.
Tarragó was first climbed in 2002 by David Tarragó and friends ground-up. It wasn’t freed until 2013 when Eneko and Iker Pou redpointed each pitch.
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