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This article does a good job at pointing out how hard this is. There are harder individual segments (two in the world go up to 5.15c) but this has multiple 5.1
by lsiebert 12y ago
This article does a good job at pointing out how hard this is. There are harder individual segments (two in the world go up to 5.15c) but this has multiple 5.14 segments, and nothing below 5.12. 5.10 used to be consider impossible, but better equipment and planning have allowed increased difficulty in climbs.
- erjiang 12y agoThe rating scale has also shifted. A difficult route may have been graded a 5.10 when it was established, simply because that was the limit of the scale. But if it were regraded today it might have a more precise grade like 5.12b.
- justinator 12y agoIt should also be noted that a lot of routes in Yosemite were never re-graded and are just simply "5.9+". Hard routes with a too-low grade are known as, "sandbagged".