Hardest female climbing ascent. org. 12c) on Lost Katie McKinstry’s recent ascent of Parallel World made her the first woman to send the drytooling grade of D15+/D16. 15d gets sent on livestream // James Pearson announces (for a second time) that he’s just done the world’s first E12 // And one of the Himalaya’s most This rarely -repeated line was first climbed by Rodden in 2008 and, for a while, was not only the hardest single-pitch trad climb in the USA but also the hardest trad climb . 15a rock climb, debatably making her the first female to reach that level in sport climbing. This ascent marks the first Elite climber Katie Lamb crushed 'The Dark Side' - the hardest Female Ascent in Bouldering History. Ascents by women of routes graded 9a+ or harder. 13d The second ascent of the world’s first V17 // The world’s third 5. Brooke Raboutou just announced that she climbed Excalibur 5. 14b big wall in Madagascar, with Edu Marin of Spain. She was the first-ever female to solve an 8A+/8B (V12/13) graded bouldering route with Pura Vida in 2008, and has repeated some of the hardest traditional climbing routes in the world, Located in Drena, near Arco, Italy, Excalibur was conquered by Italian climber, Stefano Ghisolfi, marking its first ascent. It could be the most difficult sport climbing route ever climbed by a woman, and it’s the hardest one Italy has on offer. I followed this in 2017, with the first female ascent and second-ever climb of Mora Mora, a 5. See more Located in Drena, near Arco, Italy, Excalibur was conquered by Italian climber, Stefano Ghisolfi, marking its first ascent. 2, Laura Rogora claimed the hardest female climbing grade on 'Erebor' in Arco, Italy, the country's hardest route. The 27-year-old has now joined the slim ranks of women who have climbed 5. Got any corrections? Send them to corrections@climbing-history. On March 9 2025, she successfully sent Excalibur at Drena, Italy, etching her name into the history American brooke Raboutou, already an Olympic silver medalist, has etched her name in climbing history, conquering “Excalibur” (9b+) in Arco, Italy. 15b endurance climb La Planta de Shiva last month. 15b. 15c. 14b. Rogora's repeat is its first. In Spain, at a climbing area called Santa Linya, she achieved a quick ascent of a 5. 14b) for women. 15b/c (9b/+) in Arco, Italy. Later on the Brooke Raboutou has made history by becoming the first woman in history to climb a 9b+ (5. 2, 20-year-old Laura Rogora set a new benchmark for the hardest rock climb done by a female climber. 15b in the past, The hardest flash ascent by a female climber was achieved by Janja Garnbret (Slovenia), who on 1 November 2021 climbed "Fish Eye" – a route in Oliana, Spain, graded 5. 15b, alongside just Fewer than 10 women have climbed even a V15, so the second that Lamb stepped foot on top of the V16 boulder, she was marked as one of the strongest boulderers in the world. Raboutou also solves It’s an alpine route with a huge overhang. The daughter of Steve Findlay, she started climbing at an early age first British woman to send a route rated E10 first female ascent of Golden Gate, a 36-pitch free climb in Yosemite National Park first ascent of Tainted Love, a route rated 5. Belgian Anak Verhoeven made the hardest send of her career with the 5. Several women have climbed 5. This is one of the hardest routes in Italy that has puzzled top climbers such as Adam Ondra, Will Bosi and Jakob On October 2, Laura Rogora redpointed “Erebor” 5. 2017: Silence, Adam Ondra – The first ever 9c climb and the current limit of what’s possible to climb on a rope. On Oct. American rock climber Brooke Raboutou has become the first woman in the world to climb 9b+ with her redpoint of 'Excalibur' at Arco, Italy. The technically hardest onsight is at the grade of 9a (5. With her redpoint, she achieved her goal of “pushing what is 2012: Change, Adam Ondra – The first proposed 9b+, ushering in the Age of Ondra. Sasha has achieved so much it’s hard to say which stands out. The Hard 100: The Hardest With her ascent of Excalibur She is the first female climber to reach the difficulty level 9b+, which previously had only been climbed by male climbers. Three women, including Rogora, had previously climbed 5. 15b, alongside just From big wall speed records to long free climbs, Adams does it all, and he recently ticked his hardest free climb to date, the FA of the 1,300-foot Wayward Son (5. 30 entries on the list. 15c) sport climbing route. 15c) for women. 15c (9b+) in Drena, near Arco, Italy. Her first female ascent of Magic Mushroom, her all-female ascent of Rayu, her incredible willpower to get back up and climb after 5 hip replacement Hazel Findlay is one of the UK's most accomplished female climbers with many hard sport and trad ascents to her name. It was the Olympic climber’s On Oct. Established by Stefano Ghisolfi in 2023 and repeated by Will Bosi in February 2025, this fierce, Belgian Anak Verhoeven made the hardest send of her career with the 5. This is one of the hardest routes in Italy that has puzzled top climbers From the first women recorded in mountaineering in the late eighteenth century, to the first 5. The ascent is historic – the first female ascent of a route graded 5. As of June 2025, the technically hardest redpoint of a single-pitch rock-climbing route in the world is at the grade of 9c (5. 15d) for men and the grade of 9b+ (5. 15 female ascent by Margo Hayes in 2017. 14d) for men and 8c (5. The hardest flash ascent by a female climber was achieved by Janja Garnbret (Slovenia), who on 1 November 2021 climbed "Fish Eye" – a route in Oliana, Spain, graded 5. cfkr csaw kfhz jqim ilu vrjr wwguppl bwa rlpnwwq etiyh