Oliana

Oliana is a municipality in Catalonia’s Alt Urgell, sitting in the Segre valley beneath the local reservoir; it is the setting for high‑end sport climbing projects that attract the global elite. The film in this catalog focuses on one such project, La Dura Dura, and its place in the town’s recent climbing history.

La Dura Complete: The Hardest Rock Climb in the World documents the 2013 exchange between Chris Sharma and Adam Ondra as they worked and ultimately sent the same extremely difficult sport route. The footage foregrounds the climbing itself — sequences of redpoint attempts and sequences of resting and working moves — and combines that with generous interview moments that reveal the mentorship and rivalry between two generations of climbers. Viewers will get a clear sense of how an elite project is developed: the repeated attempts on the line, the logistics of projecting a single route, and the emotional arc when one climber hands a project to another.

Because the piece is shot and edited as a climbing story rather than a travelogue, it’s useful for anyone wanting to study elite sport‑route process, athlete interaction, and the fine margins at the top end of difficulty. The film anchors those themes in Oliana’s landscape — a Catalan town and valley that, for a time, played host to one of the most publicised sport projects of the decade.