well isn't british trad grades only used by british - bit weird to give E grade to something overseas? I would imagine ondra has no idea what E9 or E10 or anything like that would mean, how would he? Dawn wall has the hardest pitch as 8c+ I believe.
I think all that we can take from this is that grade 9a was confirmed by Ondra, as well being quite run out, but 'probably safe'. According to Pearsons own calculator, it is E12, would be rather more interesting to know where did the top dogs in trad such as macleod, mclure got to as far as agreement with the darth grader.
either way great job Pearson :great:
