Cobra Crack
| Cobra Crack | |
|---|---|
 Looking up the crack from the ground | |
| Location | Squamish, British Columbia, Canada |
| Climbing area | The Cirque of the Uncrackables, Squamish |
| Route type | Traditional climbing |
| Vertical gain | 45 metres (148 ft) |
| Pitches | 1 |
| Grade | 5.14b (8c)[1] |
| First free ascent | Sonnie Trotter, 2006 |
Cobra Crack is a 45-metre (148 ft) long traditional climbing route on a thin crack up a granite rock face in Squamish, British Columbia. The route was first ascended by Peter Croft in the 1980s as an aid climb. After rebuffing many attempts, most notably by Didier Berthod, in 2006, Canadian climber Sonnie Trotter made the first free ascent of the route, and at the grade of 5.14b (8c), confirmed the route as the hardest traditional crack climb in the world; it is still considered one of the hardest traditional climbs in the world.
History
Legacy
Ascents
- 1st. Sonnie Trotter in 2006.
See also
- Indian Face, British E9-graded traditional climbing route from 1986
- Separate Reality, American 5.12a-graded traditional climbing route from 1978
- Prinzip Hoffnung, Austrian 8b/+ graded traditional climbing route from 2009
References
- ^ "Cobra Crack 5.14b". theCrag. Retrieved 18 September 2023.