World Statistics

General area statistics

Area Name: World
Number Routes: 188,246
Number Areas: 30,290
Number Activity Updates: 141,089
Number Ascents: 438,212
Areas With Description: 1,988
Routes With Description: 18,923
Routes With Ascent Coverage: 71,663
Trad Routes: 15,551
Sport Routes: 26,465
Top Rope Routes: 3,525
Multipitch Routes: 4,412
Aid Routes: 2,509
Boulder Problems: 14,784
Alpine Routes: 2,121
Ice Routes: 793
Average Height: 33
Route Grade Contributions: 209,264
Number Topos: 1,208
Number Routes With Topos: 3,086
Number Favourite Crags: 432
Number Shortcuts: 31,625
Number Distinct Route Ascents: 404,294
Trad Route Ascents: 67,542
Sport Route Ascents: 78,387
Multipitch Route Ascents: 6,414
Aid Route Ascents: 1,276
Boulder Route Ascents: 17,989
Alpine Route Ascents: 2,486
Ice Route Ascents: 487
Number Ticks: 391,765
Number Hits: 9,510
Number Ghosts: 3,745
Number Pure Ascents: 166,959
Number Repeat Ascents: 14,498
Number Routes Repeated: 12,491
Number Quality Ratings: 249,265
Number Relative Difficulty Ratings: 8,457
Number Ascent Comments: 116,769
Number Photos: 5,519
Number Distinct Route Photos: 2,569
Number Contributing Publications: 171
Number Climbers Indicating Ascent: 8,014
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Hardest Tick Ascent: UnderSiege {V14}
Hardest Clean Ascent: Eco Terrorist {V11}
Hardest Lead Ascent: Saruman {8+}
Hardest Onsight Ascent: Eco Terrorist {V11}
Hardest Flash Ascent: Cleopatra-Cinderella Traverse {V10}
Hardest Redpoint Ascent: Eco Terrorist {V11}
Hardest Pinkpoint Ascent: Whistling Kite {32}
Hardest Second Ascent: Obsession {7b}
Hardest Clean Second Ascent: Obsession {7b}
Hardest Solo Ascent: Paratroopin {V8}
Hardest Top Rope Ascent: Whistling Kite {32}
Hardest Clean Top Rope Ascent: Hollow Screams Direct {30}
Hardest Aid Ascent: Aid Roof {5.14c}
Area Quality Score: 57
Area Difficulty Score: 42
Area Busyness Score: 14
Area Grade Accuracy Score: 63
Hardest Routes: Le Genou de Claire {9c}; Les Grimpeurs se Cachent pour Vomir {9c}; Ne {9c}; The Wheel Of Life {V16}; Hydrangea {V16}; Babel {V16}; Akira {9b+}; Pretty Hate Machine Var {V15}; Steep project {V15}; Sleepy Rave {V15}
Easiest Routes: 3rd Street {Class 5}; Pioneer Route {Class 5}; The Grotto Chimney {Class 5}; Northeast Couloir {Class 5}; Third Tooth {Class 5}; Eichorn's Chute {Class 5}; V-Notch Couloir {Class 5}; South Face {Class 5}; Knuckle Ridge B {Class 5}; Fisher Chimneys {Class 5}
Busiest Routes: D Minor {14}; Muldoon {13}; Vanderholics {19}; Bard {12}; Santa's Little Helper {15}; Diddy Kong {18}; Samurai Pizza Catz {18}; Piccolo {11}; Lucifer {11}; Hang On {17}
Busiest Beginner Routes: Bard {12}; Piccolo {11}; Lucifer {11}; Agamemnon {10}; D Major {10}; Conifer Crack {9}; Trapeze {11}; Arachnus {9}; Camelot {10}; Diapason {7}
Busiest Intermediate Routes: D Minor {14}; Muldoon {13}; Santa's Little Helper {15}; Diddy Kong {18}; Samurai Pizza Catz {18}; Hang On {17}; Swinging {17}; Flake Crack {17}; Butt Head {17}; Horn Piece {13}
Busiest Experienced Routes: Vanderholics {19}; Little Thor {20}; Jack High {19}; Jaws {21}; The Eternity {19}; Eat My Spinning Blades Of Steel, Mother....er {20}; Gun Barrel Highway {19}; Idiot Wind {21}; Tannin {19}; Je Baise Ma Fraigne {20}
Busiest Expert Routes: Evil Wears No Pants {30}; Wholly Calamity {26}; Madge McDonald {25}; Rubber Lover {25}; Screaming Insanity {26}; Crazy Horny {25}; Pad'ngton {25}; A Kneebar Too Far {29}; Loop the Loop {25}; Very Nice Piece Of Cake {25}
Busiest Elite Routes: (Impossoproj - Lee - Open) {33}; Mushi Brain {V11}; Eco Terrorist {V11}; Dead Can't Dance {V11}; Contact {V12}; The Don {33}; Action Directe {11}; Diaphanous Sea {V12}
Busiest Top Rope Routes: Vanderholics {19}; Little Thor {20}; Halva {16}; Pterodactyl {18}; Camelot {10}; Idiot Wind {21}; Maximus {17}; Marmot's Mall {16}; Pass the Bosch {17}; Minimus {14}
Busiest Sport Routes: Vanderholics {19}; Santa's Little Helper {15}; Diddy Kong {18}; Samurai Pizza Catz {18}; Lucifer {11}; Hang On {17}; Jack High {19}; Butt Head {17}; Jaws {21}; The Bandoline Grip {18}
Busiest Trad Routes: D Minor {14}; Muldoon {13}; Bard {12}; Piccolo {11}; Agamemnon {10}; Little Thor {20}; D Major {10}; Swinging {17}; Flake Crack {17}; Conifer Crack {9}
Busiest Boulder Routes: Eastern Bloc Arete {V1}; BARFJ Traverse {V3}; Golden Streak {V2}; The Pincer Movement {V5}; Choppers {V1}; Point of View {V0}; M.A.S.H. {V0-}; Bangers {V0}; Crewcut {V1}; Diplomatic Solution {V2}
Busiest Alpine Routes: Central Pillar of Frenzy {5.10a V}; Thin Air {5.6 II}; 30 Seconds Over Potash {5.8 I}; Whitney-Gilman Ridge {5.7 II}; Kor-Ingalls {5.9 III}; Southeast Buttress {5.6 III}; Flakes Of Wrath {5.9 I}; Sliding Board {5.7 II}; Beginner's Route {5.5 II}; Upper Exum Ridge {5.4 II}
Busiest Ice Routes: Louise Falls {WI4 to WI5}; Grotto Falls {WI3}; Cascade Falls {WI3}; Coors Lite {WI2 to WI2+}; The Rigid Designator {WI5-}; Willey's Slide {WI2}; Spiral Staircase {WI3 to WI4}; Standard Route: The Window Variation {WI3}; The Black Dike {WI4+}; The Beer Garden {WI2}
Most Desirable Routes: The Watchtower Crack {16}; Kachoong {21}; Bard {12}; Muldoon {13}; Eat My Spinning Blades Of Steel, Mother....er {20}; The Eternity {19}; A Day At The Beach {21}; Jaws {21}; Vanderholics {19}; Agamemnon {10}
Purist Routes: Out Of Ammo {19}; Too Tall Oxen {22}; Roger Bourne Identity {16}; Super Charger {23}; Poison Ivy {21}; Laertes {5c+}; Near Beer {5.6}; Seam at Left End {22}; Blu {6a}; Beetle Juice {21}
Highest Quality Routes: Pole Dancer {22}; Genesis {23}; Toyland Direct {25}; Tjuringa {25}; The Norwegian Way {V7}; Antimatter {23}; Scenic Cruise {5.10+ V}; Ellingwood Arete {5.7 III}; Our Terminal World {25}; Immortality {22}
Highest Quality Beginner Routes: Leaning Peak Ridge {5}; West Ridge {5.4}; Middlefell Buttress {D}; Tower Ridge {D}; Skyline Traverse {3}; Caver's Route {5.4}; Terrier's Tooth {VD}; Standard East Face {5.3}; Arrow Route {VD}; Rysavy Ridge {11}
Highest Quality Intermediate Routes: Skamvrån {4+}; Super Crack {5.9}; North Buttress {17}; The Shield {5.9 A3+ VI}; Direct Petzoldt Ridge {5.7 III}; Northeast Ridge {5.8}; Beckey-Chouinard {5.10a}; Ellingwood Arete {5.7 III}; Casual Route {5.10a IV}; South Face {5.8 III}
Highest Quality Experienced Routes: Die Nadal {22}; Great Slab (Froggatt) {E3 5b}; Layla {20}; Shune's Buttress {5.11c IV}; Swing it magistern {6b}; Pole Dancer {22}; Genesis {23}; Antimatter {23}; Scenic Cruise {5.10+ V}; Immortality {22}
Highest Quality Expert Routes: Exorcist {5.12b}; l'ange gardien {7b}; Samarkand {25}; Reality Dysfunction {27}; In Between Dreams {26}; Toyland Direct {25}; Tjuringa {25}; The Norwegian Way {V7}; Our Terminal World {25}; Serpentine {29}
Highest Quality Top Rope Routes: Swing it magistern {6b}; Svettiga grisen {6b}; Boulet Frit Left Hand Start {23}; Daniel Or-tiger {30}; Turning of the Tide {22}; Barad Dur {22}; Blue-Eyed and Blond {24}; Amandas lov {4a}; Svettiga grisen (variation) {6b+}; Ergonomics {26}
Highest Quality Sport Routes: Conehead & The Barbiturates {28}; l'ange gardien {7b}; Bareback {25}; Reality Dysfunction {27}; Led Zep 78 {26}; In Between Dreams {26}; Pathogenicity {24}; License To Climb Harder {7c}; Antimatter {23}; Gasoline Rainbow {28}
Highest Quality Trad Routes: Stairway to Heaven {22}; Leaning Peak Ridge {5}; Die Nadal {22}; Swing it magistern {6b}; Sharks Fin {21}; Genesis {23}; Tjuringa {25}; Serpentine {29}; Eye Of The Tiger {29}; World Party Pitch 3 {24}
Highest Quality Boulder Routes: Yellow Arete {V4}; The Norwegian Way {V7}; Hands Off My Detonator {V8}; Dragonfly (aka Dogmatics) {V5}; Beautiful Edges {V4}; Launch Pad {V6}; The crack {V3}; The Nevin Rule {V7}; Soul Slinger {V10}; High Plains Drifter {V7}
Highest Quality Alpine Routes: Astroman {5.11c IV}; Direct Petzoldt Ridge {5.7 III}; Shune's Buttress {5.11c IV}; Moonlight Buttress {5.13a V}; Scenic Cruise {5.10+ V}; Ellingwood Arete {5.7 III}; Casual Route {5.10a IV}; South Face {5.8 III}; Lightning Bolt Cracks {5.11b III}; Levitation 29 {5.11c IV}
Highest Quality Ice Routes: The Fang {WI5 to WI6}; Proffessor Falls {WI4}; The Black Dike {WI4+}; Roaring Brook Falls {WI3+}; Louise Falls {WI4 to WI5}; The Skylight {WI4 to WI5}; Trap Dike - ICE {WI2}; Left Hand Side {WI4}; Dragon's Tail Gully {AI2 to AI3 M2 II}; The Rigid Designator {WI5-}
Hightest Quality Minor Areas: Bugaboos; The Needles; The Grand Wall; Southwest Face; Southern Sierra Nevada; North Wall; The Gorge - North Side; Central Section; Robin's Buttress; Cat Wall
Hightest Quality Major Areas: The Chief; Wales; Stanage; Yosemite National Park; Yosemite Valley; Moonarie; Tuolumne Meadows; White Mountains; Conway; Eldorado Canyon State Park
Hardest Minor Areas: Shiobara; Hollow Mountain Cave; The Big Show; Raco De La Coma Closa; Cheesedale bouldering; Auenland; Les Devers; La Catedral; Rubicon Wall; Water-cum-Jolly
Hardest Major Areas: Raco De La Finestra; Centre; Little Rock City; Cornice; Cheedale - Lower; Boney Bluff; Misja Pec; Acephale; The Lower Central Wall; China Wall
Easiest Minor Areas: The Play Pen; Jombry's Test Piece; Tryfan; The Milestone Buttress; Southern Yosemite Peaks; Clogwyn y Bustach; Plantation Slab; Spanish Needle Peak; Glaciated Slab; Beginners Crag
Easiest Major Areas: Renaissance Walls; Yellowie; Old Head of Kinsale; Drakensburg; Whaley Bridge Area; The Plantation; The Grand Canyon; Danby Crag; Baal Rock Spur; Boot Hill
Busiest Minor Areas: Grey Slab; Gunbarrel Wall; Back Wall; Mortein Wall; Descent Gully Walls; Hot Flyer Wall; Deacon Area; Alley Wall; Slabby Wall; Celebrity Crag
Busiest Major Areas: Shipley Upper; Kangaroo Point; Berowra; Organ Pipes; Brisbane; Thompson's Point; Slider Wall; Main Area; Southwest Left; Falcons Lookout
Highest Quality Crags: Paradise Forks; Rocky Mountain National Park; Indian Creek Canyon; Stanage; Yosemite National Park; Mount Wellington; Moonarie; Ceuse; White Mountains; Lake Louise; Hueco Tanks State Park; Eldorado Canyon State Park; Chaing Mai; The Black Hills; Adirondacks; Mt Coolum; The Pulpit (private land); Almscliff; Linville Gorge; Kalymnos
Busiest Crags: Kangaroo Point; Urbenville; Frog Buttress; Mt Coolum; Mt Tinbeerwah; Werribee Gorge; Waterworks Quarry; Brooyar; Green Belt; Looking Glass; Arapiles; Hillwood Volcano; Ben Cairn; Santee Boulder Field; Krabi; Reimers Ranch; Nowra; The Pulpit (private land); Car Crash Quarry; Northern Beaches
Classic Crags: Blue Mountains; Arapiles; Nowra; Grampians; Frog Buttress; Kangaroo Point; Krabi; Shawangunks; Glasshouse Mountains; Morialta; Yosemite National Park; Joshua Tree National Monument; Squamish; Wasatch Front; Hornsby and the North; Red Rocks; New River Gorge; Mt Coolum; Point Perpendicular; Sutherland
Grade Icons: 5.0 - Exodus; 5.2 - Siren; 5.3 - Agamemnon; 5.4 - Gelsa; 5.5 - Bard; 5.6 - Muldoon; 5.7 - D Minor; 5.8 - The Watchtower Crack; 5.9 - Flake Crack; 5.10a - Skink; 5.10b - The Eternity; 5.10c - Incredible Hand Crack; 5.10d - Eat My Spinning Blades Of Steel, Mother....er; 5.11a - Kachoong; 5.11b - Killer Boas; 5.11c - Crime and Punishment; 5.11d - Split Wave; 5.12a - Howler; 5.12b - Madder; 5.12c - Screaming Insanity; 5.12d - Reality Dysfunction; 5.13a - Gasoline Rainbow; 5.13b - Serpentine; 5.13c - A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the Sun; 5.13d - L'Aerodynamite; 5.14a - Soul Slinger

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