I agree with Kieran. He has explained what I always believed was the intention of the Ewbank system well. Bmblydad.... interesting point... where do V grades and climbing grades meet? How is the full hollow mountain cave link up going to be graded?? V10 + V12 + V10 + V12 or something like that. I have no idea, but it will be damn hard, and for sure endurance is going to play a massive part in the overall difficulty, to suggest otherwise I think is rather silly. Same rationale for routes.
Phil, good point about the gallery. By Neil's idea of grading, I believe Monkey Puzzle would be soft 26.
Joe |