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First-free-ascents that set new grade milestones are important events in rock climbing history, and are listed below. While sport climbing has dominated absolute-grade milestones since the mid-1980s (i.e. are now the highest grades), milestones for modern traditional climbing, free solo climbing, onsighted, and flashed ascents, are also listed.
B1 was "the highest level of difficulty in traditional roped climbing" (which was about American YDS 5.10 (or French 6a / UIAA VI+) at that time, [14] B2 was "harder than anything in B1", [14] and B3 was a "route that had been tried on multiple occasions by more than one party but had only been climbed once" (i.e. if a B3 was repeated it would ...
On 14 January 1897, Matthias Zurbriggen went on to make the first recorded ascent of Aconcagua in the Andes. Aconcagua is 6,962 metres (22,841 ft) high and, if the claims of Boss and Graham are discounted, was still the highest point to have been reached at that time. [15] The Duke of the Abruzzi and guides climbing an icefall on Chogolisa.
Nima Jangmu Sherpa, 28, made the historic ascent on Mount Kanchenjunga on 23 May 2018 morning and became the only woman in the world to climb Nepal's three highest peaks (Mount Everest -14 May 2018, Mount Lhotse - 29 April 2018, Mount Kanchenjunga – 23 May 2018) above 8,000 metres in a single season within 25 days.
They became the first mother/daughter duo to complete the "Seven Summits" challenge, climbing the highest peak of every continent. [183] May 25 – Mostafa Salameh became the first Jordanian to climb Everest, planting the Jordanian flag on the peak. [184] May – Nimdoma Sherpa, 16 years old, becomes the youngest woman to reach the summit. [185]
The climbing media records new grade milestones of onsights and flashes of major sport climbing routes. As of 2023, the highest milestone in flashing a route was by Czech climber Adam Ondra who in 2018, became the first-ever climber in history to flash a 9a+ (5.15a) graded sport climbing route, Super Crackinette. [17]
Second-ever big wall free climb at 5.14a (8b+), by Lynn Hill (partnered by Brooke Sandahl); it is considered as one of the most important ascents in rock climbing history, and a major milestone in both female and big wall rock climbing; [7] in 1994, Hill repeated it in under 24 hours, and it took over a decade for the second free climb of the ...
Sport climbing has since set all new grade milestones in rock climbing. The "redpoint" became the accepted definition for what determined a "first free ascent" in sport climbing. [9] [10] Heinz Zak makes the first repeat free solo ascent of Separate Reality in Yosemite. First repeat ascent (traditional or sport climbing).