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Sport routes use a French number, boulder problems a V grade or a Font grade. The figure is taken from International Federation of Sport Climbing, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Climbing grades run on several separate scales

Sport routes use a French number, boulder problems a V grade or a Font grade A French 6a is a moderate sport climb and 9c is the hardest yet done, while the V scale runs from VB to V17. Traditional climbs in Britain use adjectives such as severe and extreme. Grades are subjective and get confirmed or adjusted as more climbers repeat a route. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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International Federation of Sport Climbing

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Sport routes use a French number, boulder problems a V grade or a Font grade. The figure is taken from International Federation of Sport Climbing, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.