Toni Arbones Siurana ... but not only ... first Most of you do not know ... who knows it certainly was in Siurana. Toni Arbones, class '67, is certainly the soul of Montsant, but also much more.
20 years competed in the World Cup, when climbing competitions were a novelty, then move Siurana and to start intensive choiodatore, freeing up to 8b + routes and opening the first shelter for climbers, expanded in the Today the camp is run by him (
www.campingsiurana.com ). Then he turned
all this in what for me is the goal of climbing: to bring great difficulty and style redpoint on big walls.
1996 he was one of the first to visit Taghia (Morocco) return later to open a number of ways, and around the world including big wall ripeturo different Freerider (El Capitan, USA) and Eternal Flame (Trango Tower, Pakistan, road opened in 1989 by Albert and Gullich, 7c to 6000m above sea level). If this were not enough you can find his name in Madagascar, where in 2001 he opened Vazaha M'Tapitapy (650 m up to 8a + on the wall of Tsaranoro), also being part of an expedition in 2007 to free Tough Enough (Karambony, 400 m up 8c). Finally I mention that In 2006 he participated in the freedom of the Angel Falls in Venezuela (a street of 660 m in height, 50 m of cliff for a total of 9oo m: around 31 pitches up to 7c/7c +).