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  2. List of grade milestones in rock climbing - Wikipedia

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    In rock-climbing, a first free ascent (FFA) is the first redpoint, onsight or flash of a single-pitch, multi-pitch (or big wall), or boulder climbing route that did not involve using aid equipment to help progression or resting; the ascent must therefore be performed in either a sport, a traditional, or a free solo manner.

  3. Free climbing - Wikipedia

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    The first "free climb" of a climbing route is known as the first free ascent, or FFA, and is chronicled by climbing journals and guide books.They also chronicle whether the "free climb" was done onsight (i.e. first try without any prior information), flashed (i.e. first try with prior information), or redpointed (i.e. completed after a first failed attempt).

  4. Redpoint (climbing) - Wikipedia

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    Once Albert was able to free-climb the entire route, and avoid all the red "X"s, he would then paint a red "dot" (the "Roter Punkt") at the base of the route. His first Rotpunkt was the aid climbing route Adolf-Rott-Gedächtnis-Weg (V+/A1) at the Streitberger Schild crag in the Frankenjura, which he freed at 6a+ (5.10b) in 1975. [1]

  5. Rhapsody (climb) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Action Directe (climb) - Wikipedia

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    Güllich completed the first free ascent on 14 September 1991, after 11 days of working the route – spread over three weeks – and using a 16-move sequence including a direct start with a dynamic jump into a two-finger pocket to redpoint it. [3] Güllich was 30 at the time and had been married just 5 days previously to freeing the route. [3]

  7. Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome - Wikipedia

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    The record for the fastest ascent of the route is 1:22 and was set during a solo ascent in late May 2012 by Alex Honnold, who had previously recorded the first free solo ascent in 2008. [3] This improved on a longstanding record of 1:53 set in October 1999 by Jim Herson and Hans Florine .

  8. Tommy Caldwell - Wikipedia

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    In January 2015, Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson over 19-days made the first free ascent of The Dawn Wall on El Capitan, which was the first-ever big wall free climb at 9a (5.14d) in history. [ 2 ] In 2015, National Geographic called Caldwell "arguably the best all-around rock climber on the planet", [ 3 ] and he is an important figure in the ...

  9. Separate Reality (climb) - Wikipedia

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    Separate Reality is a 66-foot (20 m) traditional climbing route in Yosemite National Park in California.The route is known for its exposed and dramatic crux that consists of a 20-foot (6.1 m) long crack in its horizontal roof.