Grade (climbing) - Free Climbing

Free Climbing

For free climbing, there are many different grading systems varying according to country. They include:

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    “You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.”
    —Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    “One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest-trees.”
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