Font boulder grade
What grade is 9A?
9A ≈ V17 V-scale
Expert9A is about V17 in V-scale.
It’s grade 31 of 31 here, which run from 4A to 9A. It’s at the very top of the scale: only a small number of the world’s strongest climbers have climbed it.
Grades around 9A
| Font | V-scale |
|---|---|
| 8B+ | V14 |
| 8C | V15 |
| 8C+ | V16 |
| 9A | V17 |
Questions
- What is 9A in V-scale?
- 9A is about V17 in V-scale. Where the two scales don’t line up exactly, the conversion is a range.
- Is 9A hard?
- It’s at the very top of the scale: only a small number of the world’s strongest climbers have climbed it.
- What comes after 9A?
- Nothing yet: 9A is the hardest grade climbed so far. The grade below is 8C+.
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