Sector: GradesRoutes run easiest to hardest, left to right

Every Font grade, converted to the V scale

One page per grade from 5A to 9A, with its V-scale match, the sport grade beside it where one applies, and where the comparison breaks down. Kept going by readers of the original Dead Point Magazine.

Line drawing of a climbing wall with the grade pages drawn as numbered routes, easiest on the left V1 V1 V2 V3 V3 V4 V4 V5 V5 V6 V7 V8 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

As seen in

  • The New York Times
  • CNN
  • Smithsonian Magazine
  • Mountain Project
  • UKClimbing
  • Alpinist
  • 27 Crags
  • Gripped

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