YDS route grade
What grade is 5.15c?
5.15c ≈ 9b+ French
Expert5.15c is about 9b+ in French.
It’s grade 27 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 5.15c
| YDS | French |
|---|---|
| 5.14d | 9a |
| 5.15a | 9a+ |
| 5.15b | 9b |
| 5.15c | 9b+ |
| 5.15d | 9c |
5.15c in every system
- French
- 9b+
- YDS
- 5.15c
- UIAA
- XI+/XII−
- Ewbank
- 38
- British
- –
- Saxon
- XIIIb
- Norwegian
- 11−
- Brazilian
- XIIc
Questions
- What is 5.15c in French?
- 5.15c is about 9b+ in French. Where the two scales don’t line up exactly, the conversion is a range.
- Is 5.15c 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 5.15c?
- The next grade up is 5.15d (9c in French). The grade below is 5.15b.
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Approximate. Conversions by OpenBeta sandbag; British from RockFax/theCrag tables.