YDS route grade
What grade is 5.15a?
5.15a ≈ 9a+ French
Expert5.15a is about 9a+ in French.
It’s grade 25 of 28 here, which run from 5.6 to 5.15d. It’s an expert grade: it usually takes years of dedicated climbing, and only a small share of climbers climb it.
Grades around 5.15a
| YDS | French |
|---|---|
| 5.14b | 8c |
| 5.14c | 8c+ |
| 5.14d | 9a |
| 5.15a | 9a+ |
| 5.15b | 9b |
| 5.15c | 9b+ |
| 5.15d | 9c |
5.15a in every system
- French
- 9a+
- YDS
- 5.15a
- UIAA
- XI/XI+
- Ewbank
- 36
- British
- E11 7b
- Saxon
- XIIIa
- Norwegian
- 10+
- Brazilian
- XIIa
Questions
- What is 5.15a in French?
- 5.15a is about 9a+ in French. Where the two scales don’t line up exactly, the conversion is a range.
- Is 5.15a hard?
- It’s an expert grade: it usually takes years of dedicated climbing, and only a small share of climbers climb it.
- What comes after 5.15a?
- The next grade up is 5.15b (9b in French). The grade below is 5.14d.
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Approximate. Conversions by OpenBeta sandbag; British from RockFax/theCrag tables.