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Lotus Flower Tower

Lotus Flower Tower is a major alpine climbing route on the southeast face of Lotus Flower Tower in the Cirque of the Unc...

Classic Granite Big Wall Alpine

9.61 Brilliant

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Cassin Route

The Cassin Route is a historic alpine rock climb on the northeast face of Piz Badile in the Bregaglia range of the Alps....

Classic Granite Alpine North Face

9.57 Brilliant

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South Howser Minaret Beckey-Chouinard

The Beckey-Chouinard is an alpine climbing route on South Howser Tower in the Bugaboos of British Columbia. It follows r...

Classic Granite Big Wall Alpine

9.57 Brilliant

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Heckmair Route

The Heckmair Route is the line followed during the first successful ascent of the Eiger's north face in the Bernese Alps...

Historic Alpine Mixed North Face

9.54 Brilliant

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Dream of White Horses

Dream of White Horses is a traditional sea-cliff route on Wen Zawn at Gogarth, on the island of Anglesey in Wales. It is...

Classic Trad Quartzite Gogarth

9.52 Brilliant

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The Grand Wall

The Grand Wall is a long granite climbing route on the Stawamus Chief near Squamish, British Columbia. It was first clim...

Classic Granite Trad Squamish

9.52 Brilliant

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The Phoenix

The Phoenix is a short, exceptionally difficult crack climb near Cascade Falls in Yosemite Valley, California. Ray Jardi...

Classic Granite Trad Crack

9.48 Excellent

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The Slovak Direct

The Slovak Direct is a demanding alpine route on the south face of Denali in Alaska. A three-person Slovak team made the...

Historic Alpine Mixed Extreme

9.48 Excellent

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Outer Space

Outer Space is a multipitch traditional route on Snow Creek Wall near Leavenworth, Washington. Commonly graded 5.9, it i...

Classic Trad Sandstone Eldorado Canyon

9.46 Excellent

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Cenotaph Corner

Cenotaph Corner is a traditional rock climb in the Llanberis Pass area of Snowdonia, Wales, on the cliff called Dinas Cr...

Classic Trad Rhyolite Dinas Cromlech

9.46 Excellent

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Polar Circus

Polar Circus is a long ice and mixed climbing route on Mount Andromeda in Alberta's Canadian Rockies, beside the Icefiel...

Classic Winter Ice Canadian Rockies

9.42 Excellent

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Regular Route on Fairview Dome

The Regular Route on Fairview Dome is a multipitch granite climb in Tuolumne Meadows, within Yosemite National Park. Roy...

Classic Granite Trad Tuolumne

9.37 Excellent

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Brandler-Hasse Route

The Brandler-Hasse Route is a historic alpine rock climb on the north face of Cima Grande di Lavaredo in the Italian Dol...

Classic Limestone Trad Multipitch

9.34 Excellent

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The Scenic Cruise

The Scenic Cruise is a long free climbing route in Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison. It follows roughly 1,700 fee...

Classic Big Wall Trad Gneiss

9.32 Excellent

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Central Pillar of Frenzy

Central Pillar of Frenzy is a multipitch traditional route on Middle Cathedral Rock in Yosemite Valley, California. The...

Classic Granite Yosemite Trad

9.31 Excellent

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The Yellow Spur

The Yellow Spur is a classic multi-pitch traditional climbing route in Eldorado Canyon, Colorado. It follows exposed san...

Classic Trad Sandstone Eldorado Canyon

9.25 Excellent

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Salathe Wall

The Salathe Wall is a challenging trad climbing route on El Capitan’s Freerule face within Yosemite National Park. It re...

Classic Big Wall El Capitan Yosemite

9.20 Excellent

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Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome

The Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome represents one of America’s most challenging climbs. This iconic Yosemite route,...

Classic Big Wall Half Dome Yosemite

9.20 Excellent

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Sea of Vapors

Sea of Vapors is a steep waterfall-ice climbing route on the Trophy Wall in Alberta's Canadian Rockies. It is graded WI6...

Historic Winter Ice Multipitch

9.15 Excellent

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Bridalveil Falls

Bridalveil Falls is a multi-pitch waterfall-ice climbing route above Telluride, Colorado, following a frozen cascade abo...

Classic Colorado Winter Ice

9.02 Excellent