Ah, but Wendy, it's harder than Difficult or Hard Difficult, so it must be Very Difficult. And to be fair most guidebooks write it as V.Diff.
Sometimes I get a bit confused by our grading system, I think we really could leave out every second grade until 14 or 15.
I think Neil's partially right on the system development, but I think it's also reverse ego... some of those climbs are horrifically sandbagged, and no-one wanted to get downgraded if they'd proposed a new grade. |