United Kingdom Statistics

General area statistics

Area Name: United Kingdom
Number Routes: 23,916
Number Areas: 3,247
Number Activity Updates: 4,911
Number Ascents: 10,487
Areas With Description: 27
Routes With Description: 140
Routes With Ascent Coverage: 5,008
Trad Routes: 218
Sport Routes: 61
Top Rope Routes: 1
Multipitch Routes: 222
Aid Routes: 40
Boulder Problems: 919
Alpine Routes: 59
Ice Routes
Average Height: 24
Route Grade Contributions: 24,374
Number Topos: 13
Number Routes With Topos: 13
Number Favorite Crags: 5
Number Shortcuts: 119
Number Distinct Route Ascents: 9,743
Trad Route Ascents: 143
Sport Route Ascents: 72
Multipitch Route Ascents: 217
Aid Route Ascents
Boulder Route Ascents: 223
Alpine Route Ascents: 101
Ice Route Ascents
Number Ticks: 9,658
Number Hits: 73
Number Ghosts: 10
Number Pure Ascents: 3,025
Number Repeat Ascents: 270
Number Routes Repeated: 265
Number Quality Ratings: 5,850
Number Relative Difficulty Ratings: 50
Number Ascent Comments: 2,256
Number Photos: 210
Number Distinct Route Photos: 112
Number Contributing Publications
Number Climbers Indicating Ascent: 413
Height Profile
Difficulty Band Profile
YDS Grade Profile
AU Grade Profile
FR Grade Profile
Rating System Profile
Protection Rating Profile
Tick Type Profile
Quality Assessment Profile
Relative Difficulty Assessment Profile
Ascent YDS Grade Profile
Ascent AU Grade Profile
Ascent FR Grade Profile
Month Ascent Profile
Hardest Tick Ascent: Smoked Salmon {E8 7b}
Hardest Clean Ascent: West Side Story {V9}
Hardest Lead Ascent: West Side Story {V9}
Hardest Onsight Ascent: Moonflower {E5 6b}
Hardest Flash Ascent: the Nose {6c}
Hardest Redpoint Ascent: West Side Story {V9}
Hardest Pinkpoint Ascent: Adrenalin Rush {E5 6b}
Hardest Second Ascent: Obsession {7b}
Hardest Clean Second Ascent: Obsession {7b}
Hardest Solo Ascent: Honey i shrunk the kids {6c}
Hardest Top Rope Ascent: Deathwatch {E7 6b}
Hardest Clean Top Rope Ascent: Piece of Mind {E6 6b}
Hardest Aid Ascent: China Crisis {7a+}
Area Quality Score: 60
Area Difficulty Score: 39
Area Busyness Score: 7
Area Grade Accuracy Score
Hardest Routes: Impossible Groove {V14}; Tide Rising {7c}; Gilt Edge {7c}; El Chocco {7c}; Bullworker {7c}; Keen Roof {8B}; Sling Shot (Froggatt) {V13}; Fire in the Rain {8B}; Super Fury Animal {V13}; The Big Bang {9a}
Easiest Routes: Isometric Chimney {1A}; Snake's Crawl {1A}; Hot Cross Bun {1a}; Tree Root {1A}; Scout Chimney Right {1A}; Way Down {1A}; Stepped Crack {MD}; Broad gully {1}; Reclamation Gully {1b}; November {1b}
Busiest Routes: Sunset Slab {HVS 4c}; Fluted Columns {VD}; Three Pebble Slab {E1 5a}; Flying Buttress Direct {E1 5b}; Sunset Crack {HS 4c}; Trapeze Direct {VS 4c}; Bird's Nest Crack {HS 4b}; Little Chamonix {VD}; Tody's Wall {HVS 5a}; Great Portland Street {HVS 5b}
Busiest Beginner Routes: Fluted Columns {VD}; Little Chamonix {VD}; Heather Wall {S}; Flying Buttress {VD}; Stew Pot {HVD}; Low Man Easy Way {D 4b}; Agag's Groove {VD}; Direct route {VD}; Tower Ridge {D}; Alison Rib {D}
Busiest Intermediate Routes: Sunset Slab {HVS 4c}; Three Pebble Slab {E1 5a}; Sunset Crack {HS 4c}; Trapeze Direct {VS 4c}; Bird's Nest Crack {HS 4b}; Tody's Wall {HVS 5a}; Great Portland Street {HVS 5b}; Crack and Corner {MS 4b}; Great Western {HVS 5a}; Inverted V {VS 4c}
Busiest Experienced Routes: Flying Buttress Direct {E1 5b}; The Left Unconquerable {E1 5b}; Arrow {E1 5b}; The Plum {E1 5b}; Cenotaph Corner {E1 5c}; Reptile Smile {6a+}; Embankment 3 {E1 5b}; Gogarth {E1 5b}; Embankment 4 {E1 5b}; Left Wall {E2 5c}
Busiest Expert Routes: Psycho {E5 6b}; Adrenalin Rush {E5 6b}; Un-named {8a+}; Sandman {6b}; El Chocco {7c}; Zinc Oxide Mountain {7b+}; Bourton Low Traverse - There and Back {8a}; Life Assurance {E6 6b}; Tobbacco Road {6b}; Poetry Pink {E5 6b}
Busiest Sport Routes: The Sod {5+}; The Great Hamburger Disaster {4+}; Gnat Attack {E1 5b}; Massambula {E3 5c}; Amazonia {4+}; On Manouevres {3}; read the small print {6b}; Corporal Punishment {5}; Wizz Bang {6c}; Septuagenarian {6a}
Busiest Trad Routes: Sunset Slab {HVS 4c}; Three Pebble Slab {E1 5a}; Little Chamonix {VD}; The Left Unconquerable {E1 5b}; Great Western {HVS 5a}; The Mississippi Buttress Direct {VS 4c}; Cenotaph Corner {E1 5c}; Shadrach {VS 4c}; Suicide Wall {HVS 5b}; Long Johns Slab {E3 5c}
Busiest Boulder Routes: Crescent Arete {E1 5b V2}; Not To Be Taken Away {E2 6a V4}; Matterhorn Ridge {S V0}; Morrell's Wall {V2}; Joe's Direct Start {V2}; The Pebble Arete {5c}; Central Route {VS 5a}; Route 2 {VS 4b}; Banana Finger {V3}; Traverse {3 to 7}
Busiest Alpine Routes: Left Twin {4 III}; Grotto Slab {D D}; Savage Slit {S V}; Eagle Ridge {S VI}; Right Twin {II}; green gully {4 IV}; point five gully {5 V}; Fallout Corner {7 VI}; SiameseTwin {IV}; comb gully {4 IV}
Most Desirable Routes: Matterhorn Ridge {VD}; Pinnacle Ridge {M}; Parsons' Chimney {HS 4b}; Elbow Ridge {D}; Strans Gill {D}; Pig's Ear {HVS 5b}; Climber's Club Direct {HVS 5a}; Adrenalin Rush {E5 6b}; Psycho {E5 6b}; Goliath's Groove {HVS 5a}
Purist Routes: Covent Garden {VS 4b}; Central Trinity {VS 4c}; Suicide Wall {HVS 5b}; Embankment 3 {E1 5b}; Christmas Crack {HS 4b}; Congo Corner {HVS 5b}; Reptile Smile {6a+}; Bond Street {HVS 5a}; The Mississippi Buttress Direct {VS 4c}; Chequers Buttress {HVS 5a}
Highest Quality Routes: Great Slab (Froggatt) {E3 5b}; Right Wall {E5 6a}; Middlefell Buttress {D}; east face route(the old man of hoy) {E1 5b}; Englands Dreaming {7a+}; Pain Pillar {VS 4c}; Ardverike Wall {S}; The Steeple {E2 5c}; Comes the Dervish {E3 5c}; Tower Ridge {D}
Highest Quality Beginner Routes: Middlefell Buttress {D}; Tower Ridge {D}; Terrier's Tooth {VD}; Arrow Route {VD}; Razor Rib {VD}; Heaven Crack {VD}; Clothesline {S}; Giant's Crawl {D}; Agag's Groove {VD}; Fallen Slab Arete {3}
Highest Quality Intermediate Routes: Pain Pillar {VS 4c}; Ardverike Wall {S}; Goliath's Groove {HVS 5a}; The File {VS 4c}; Troutdale Pinnacle {S}; Valkyrie {VS 4c}; Ardus {MVS 4b}; Great Western {HVS 5a}; High Neb Buttress {VS 4c}; South Ridge Direct {VS}
Highest Quality Experienced Routes: Great Slab (Froggatt) {E3 5b}; Right Wall {E5 6a}; east face route(the old man of hoy) {E1 5b}; Englands Dreaming {7a+}; The Steeple {E2 5c}; Comes the Dervish {E3 5c}; Cenotaph Corner {E1 5c}; Crescent Arete {E1 5b V2}; Left Wall {E2 5c}; The Wall of Horrors {E3 6a}
Highest Quality Expert Routes: Bourton Low Traverse - There and Back {8a}; Zinc Oxide Mountain {7b+}; Un-named {8a+}; Psycho {E5 6b}; El Chocco {7c}; Sandman {6b}
Highest Quality Sport Routes: Massambula {E3 5c}; Gnat Attack {E1 5b}; The Sod {5+}; The Great Hamburger Disaster {4+}
Highest Quality Trad Routes: Cenotaph Corner {E1 5c}; Troutdale Pinnacle {S}; Pull My Daisy {E3 5c}; Ardus {MVS 4b}; Great Western {HVS 5a}; South Ridge Direct {VS}; Terrier's Tooth {VD}; Fern Hill {E2 5c}; Bella lugosi is dead {E2 5b}; The Mississippi Buttress Direct {VS 4c}
Highest Quality Boulder Routes: Crescent Arete {E1 5b V2}; Not To Be Taken Away {E2 6a V4}; The Pebble Arete {5c}; Joe's Direct Start {V2}; Matterhorn Ridge {S V0}; Morrell's Wall {V2}; Traverse {3 to 7}
Highest Quality Alpine Routes: Eagle Ridge {S VI}; Left Twin {4 III}; Savage Slit {S V}; Grotto Slab {D D}; Sidewinder {III}
Hightest Quality Minor Areas: Dinas Cromlech; Northwest and Islands; Sron na Ciche; Isle of Skye; West coast and highlands; Dinorwic Quarries; Llanberis Slate; Llanberis Area; Llanberis Pass; Black Slab Area to Desperation Buttress
Hightest Quality Major Areas: Wales; Stanage; Eastern Gritstone; Peak District; Yorkshire Gritstone; United Kingdom; Yorkshire; England; North East England; North York Moors
Hardest Minor Areas: Dark Art Roof; Rubicon Wall; Water-cum-Jolly; Raven Tor; Bullet Roof; Burbage West Bouldering; Woody's Rock; Boulder Cove; Lower Pen Trwyn; Nth Wales Limestone
Hardest Major Areas: Anston Stones; Cornice; Cheedale - Lower; The Lower Central Wall; Kilnsey; Dihedral Wall Area; Chapel Head Scar; Dinorwic Quarries; Llanberis Slate; Kendal
Easiest Minor Areas: Tryfan; The Milestone Buttress; Clogwyn y Bustach; Glaciated Slab; Oak Buttress; North West Buttress; Tarn Crag; Snail Shell Crag; Little Tryfan; Oriel Wall
Easiest Major Areas: Whaley Bridge Area; Danby Crag; Hutton Roof; Tranmire; Scot Crag; Climbs to the North of Scafell; Grisedale; Hawkswick Crag; Peel Crag; Main Crag
Busiest Minor Areas: Sunset Slab Area; Downhill Racer Area; Dinas Mot; Blacknoor North; Dinas Cromlech; Unclimbed Wall; London Wall; Trinity Wall; Three Pebble Slab Area; Glasgow
Busiest Major Areas: Froggatt Edge; Scot Crag; Almscliff High Man; Scugdale; Whaley Bridge Area; Almscliff; Llanberis Area; Hutton Roof; Burbage North; Cornwall
Highest Quality Crags: Stanage; Almscliff; Portland; Froggatt Edge; North York Moors
Busiest Crags: Tremadog; Froggatt Edge; Dewerstone; Millstone Edge; Lawrencefield Quarry; The Quarry; Whaley Bridge Area; Almscliff; Llanberis Area; Bosigran; Hutton Roof; North East Outcrops; Lowland Outcrops; Snowdonia; North York Moors; Stanage; Anglesey; Isle of Skye; Portland; Swanage
Classic Crags: Stanage; Froggatt Edge; Llanberis Area; Almscliff; North York Moors; Portland; Anglesey; Snowdonia; Millstone Edge; Brimham Rocks; Borrowdale; Tunbridge Wells; Pembroke; Burbage Valley; Langdale; Tremadog; Swanage; Isle of Skye; Lowland Outcrops; Lawrencefield Quarry
Grade Icons: D - Middlefell Buttress; VD - Fluted Columns; S - Ardverike Wall; VS - Sunset Slab; HVS - Three Pebble Slab; E1 - Flying Buttress Direct; E2 - Great Slab (Froggatt); E3 - Comes the Dervish; E4 - Right Wall

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