World Bouldering First At Each Grade
From UkBouldering
1934 - 5+ - La Fissure des Alpinistes - Fontainebleau - Pierre Allain
1934 - 5+/6A - Angle Allain - Fontainebleau - Pierre Allain
1946 - 6A - La Marie Rose - Fontainebleau - Rene Ferlet video
1950 - 6B - La Stalingrade - Fontainebleau - Paul Jouy
1950 - 6C/6C+ - La Carre d’As - Fontainebleau - Paul Jouy
1953 - 7A - Le Joker - Fontainebleau - Robert Paragot video
1960 - 7A+ - L'Abattoir - Fontainebleau - Michel Libert video
1958 - 7B - Gill Right Problem - Tetons - John Gill
1959 - 7C - Gill Dynamic Route - Tetons - John Gill
1978 - 7C+ - The Groove - Colorado - John Gill (beats the Haston Problem in the UK by one year) photo description
1977 - 8A - Meathook - Colorado - Jim Holloway (holds may have altered) photo
1975 - 8A+ - Trice - Colorado - Jim Hollaway (subsequent repeats have finished via the rail out right, rather than straight up as per the original finish) video
1977 - 8B - Slapshot - Colorado - Jim Holloway (allegedly holds have since broken and a key hold was glued back upside down) photo
1997 - 8B+ - Nanuk - Berchtesgaden - Klem Loskot (Fred Nicole's Radja, climbed in 1996, is now considered 8B, due to easier beta)video
2000 - 8B+ - Dreamtime - Cresciano - Fred Nicole (The world's first 8C is now considered 8B+ - some believe it has been chipped, others believe it was always 8B+) video
2002 - 8C - Walk Away ss - Fairysteps - John Gaskins (beats Monkey Wedding by a year) photo
2002 - 8C - Gossip - Frankejura - Markus Bock
Links
Planetfear Records (cached) [1]
Udini Hardest Climbing Moves (still being updated) [2]
John Gill's Website [3]
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