Grade (climbing)
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Many climbing routes have grades to calibrate the technical difficulty, and in some cases the risks, of the route to the climber. The first ascensionist can suggest a grade but it will be amended for
Action Directe was a major milestone in free climbing grades when Wolfgang Güllich freed it in 1991 at 9a (French), 5.14d (American YDS), XI (UIAA).
The six levels (Grade I–VI) of the "Welzenbach scale", from 1926
Adam Ondra on the sport climbing route Silence, one of the hardest free climbing routes in the world and the first-ever proposed at 9c (French), 5.15d (American YDS), and XII+ (UIAA).
Alex Honnold's 2017 free solo of Freerider on El Capitan was the first-ever big-wall free solo at the grade of 5.13a (American) or 7c+ (French)
Adam Ondra
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Adam Ondra is a Czech professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. In 2013, Rock & Ice described Ondra as a prodigy and the leading climber of his ge
Grade (climbing)
…moves on their routes in terms of their bouldering grades – their routes are effectively a series of connected boulder problems. For example, here is Adam Ondra describing his 2017 redpoint of Silence, the first-ever free climb in the world to carry a grade of 9c (French), 5.15d (American), XII+ (UIAA): The…
Ondra in 2018
Ondra in 2009 at Imst
Adam Ondra at the IFSC Lead Worldcup Imst 2009
Adam Ondra at the IFSC Boulder Worldcup Vienna 2010