French sport grade
What grade is 9c?
9c ≈ 5.15d YDS
Expert9c is about 5.15d in YDS.
It’s grade 35 of 35 here, which run from 4a to 9c. It’s at the very top of the scale: only a small number of the world’s strongest climbers have climbed it.
Grades around 9c
| French | YDS |
|---|---|
| 9a+ | 5.15a |
| 9b | 5.15b |
| 9b+ | 5.15c |
| 9c | 5.15d |
9c in every system
- French
- 9c
- YDS
- 5.15d
- UIAA
- XII−
- Ewbank
- 39
- British
- –
- Saxon
- XIIIc
- Norwegian
- 11
- Brazilian
- XIIIa/XIIIb
Questions
- What is 9c in YDS?
- 9c is about 5.15d in YDS. Where the two scales don’t line up exactly, the conversion is a range.
- Is 9c 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 9c?
- Nothing yet: 9c is the hardest grade climbed so far. The grade below is 9b+.
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Approximate. Conversions by OpenBeta sandbag; British from RockFax/theCrag tables.