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French Alpine Grades, New Zealand Alpine Grades: The New Zealand Alpine Grading system is open-ended, but the current seven grades roughly align with the French Alpine System. Sometimes, the grade can also come from parties attempting and failing to climb the route cleanly. We sometimes use the French adjective system for alpine climbing and there's a roman numeral system for grading commitment/hazard, but these aren't used or known by rock climbers. TD+) – which is identical to the "UIAA Scale of Overall Difficulty" (e. Grading systems for different mountain sports SAC alpine hiking grade scale (PDF, 155 KB) SAC alpine tours grade scale (PDF, 98 KB) Climbing scale UIAA (German) (PDF, 101 KB) Comparrison UIAA grading vs french grading system (PDF, 91 KB) French Alpine Grades The French Alpine grading system is unique in that rather than quantifying the difficulty numerically, it uses a broader “adjectival” system to record difficulty, length, altitude, and seriousness of the climb all in one grade. g. Grade V: A full-day climb in alpine terrain with a long approach, long technical descent, and objective dangers. The complete climbing grade chart for European climbers — sport, trad, and bouldering systems explained. European Alpine Scale The European Alpine Scale, sometimes referred to as the Global Overall Alpine Scale provides more nuance to alpine climbing objectives. In mountaineering and alpine climbing, the complexity of the routes requires several grades to reflect the difficulties of the various rock, ice, and mixed climbing challenges. 5nmt2p3, vvl, rub, vqg, bqbg, pspiek, do4we, ap3b, jhg, 7hdpmz,