YDS route grade
What grade is 5.15d?
5.15d ≈ 9c French
Expert5.15d is about 9c in French.
It’s grade 28 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 5.15d
| YDS | French |
|---|---|
| 5.15a | 9a+ |
| 5.15b | 9b |
| 5.15c | 9b+ |
| 5.15d | 9c |
5.15d in every system
- French
- 9c
- YDS
- 5.15d
- UIAA
- XII−
- Ewbank
- 39
- British
- –
- Saxon
- XIIIc
- Norwegian
- 11
- Brazilian
- XIIIa/XIIIb
Questions
- What is 5.15d in French?
- 5.15d is about 9c in French. Where the two scales don’t line up exactly, the conversion is a range.
- Is 5.15d 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 5.15d?
- Nothing yet: 5.15d is the hardest grade climbed so far. The grade below is 5.15c.
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Approximate. Conversions by OpenBeta sandbag; British from RockFax/theCrag tables.