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Silence (also Project Hard), is a 45-metre (148 ft) severely overhanging sport climbing route in the granite Hanshelleren Cave in Flatanger Municipality, Norway.When Czech climber Adam Ondra made the first free ascent on 3 September 2017, it became the first rock climb in the world to have a proposed climbing grade of 9c (5.15d), and it is an important route in rock climbing history.
Rhapsody is a 35-metre (115 ft) long traditional climbing route up a thin crack on a slightly overhanging vertical basalt rock face on Dumbarton Rock, in Scotland.When Scottish climber Dave MacLeod made the first free ascent in 2006, it became Britain's first-ever E11-graded route, and at the grade of 5.14c (8c+), Rhapsody was the world's hardest traditional route.
Dave MacLeod (born 17 July 1978) is a Scottish rock climber, ice climber, mixed climber, and climbing author.MacLeod is known for being the second-ever person to free solo a 8b+ (5.14a) graded route (Darwin Dixit in Margalef, in 2008), [1] [2] and for climbing one of the hardest traditional climbing routes in the world (Rhapsody on Dumbarton Rock, graded E11 7a, in 2006).
2015 February 21 — Marc-André Leclerc, 22, soloed the 4,000-foot Corkscrew route (5.10d, A1) on Cerro Torre—the hardest route ever soloed on the granite tower—in a single day. 2020 February 7 – First climb and fly from the summit of Cerro Torre by German alpinist and paraglider Fabian Buhl.
La Dura Dura became the world's first repeated and thus confirmed 9b+ (5.15c) climb (Ondra's Change was recorded as the first 9b+, and that route was not repeated until 2020 by Italian Stefano Ghisolfi who confirmed the grade); [14] and for years it was listed as the "world's hardest climb" (Ondra had said it was harder than Change), [3] until ...
After its first free ascent in 2006, Cobra Crack was considered the hardest traditional crack climbing route in the world. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 25 ] Reporting on Didier Berthod's failed 2005 attempt, El País called it "the most difficult fissure on the planet", [ 7 ] while Desnivel said that Favresse's 2008 repeat had: "sealed Cobra Crack's ...
Pete Whittaker (born 1991) is a British professional rock climber.He is one half of the duo known as the Wide Boyz, along with his climbing partner Tom Randall.Whittaker came to notability from crack climbing, including the first ascent of the world's hardest off-width climb, the Century Crack.
Indian Face is a 45-metre (148 ft) traditional climbing route on the rhyolite "Great Wall" of the East Buttress of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, in Wales.When English climber Johnny Dawes completed the first free ascent of the route on 4 October 1986, it was graded E9 6c or , the first-ever E9-graded route, and was considered one of the hardest traditional climbing routes in the world.