YDS route grade
What grade is 5.15b?
5.15b ≈ 9b French
Expert5.15b is about 9b in French.
It’s grade 26 of 28 here, which run from 5.6 to 5.15d. It’s at the very top of the scale: only a small number of the world’s strongest climbers have climbed it.
Grades around 5.15b
| YDS | French |
|---|---|
| 5.14c | 8c+ |
| 5.14d | 9a |
| 5.15a | 9a+ |
| 5.15b | 9b |
| 5.15c | 9b+ |
| 5.15d | 9c |
5.15b in every system
- French
- 9b
- YDS
- 5.15b
- UIAA
- XI+
- Ewbank
- 37
- British
- –
- Saxon
- XIIIb
- Norwegian
- 10+
- Brazilian
- XIIb
Questions
- What is 5.15b in French?
- 5.15b is about 9b in French. Where the two scales don’t line up exactly, the conversion is a range.
- Is 5.15b 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 5.15b?
- The next grade up is 5.15c (9b+ in French). The grade below is 5.15a.
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Approximate. Conversions by OpenBeta sandbag; British from RockFax/theCrag tables.