Types of Climbing
Types Of Climbing is a structured sports dataset with 16 entries. Its fields include Discipline, Protection, Typical Height. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 16 rows
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Discipline, Protection, Typical Height, Main Grade System, Hardest Grade (est. 2026), and 1 more.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
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Useful for
- Comparing Discipline, Protection, and Typical Height across sports entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 16 downloadable records
Discipline↕ | Protection↕ | Typical Height↕ | Main Grade System↕ | Hardest Grade (est. 2026)↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bouldering | Crash pads only | 3-6 meters | V-scale / Font | V17 / 9A (Burden of Dreams, Nalle Hukkataival) | Short powerful problems, no rope, gym friendly, the entry point for most modern climbers |
Sport Climbing | Pre-placed bolts | 15-40 meters | French / YDS | 9c / 5.15d (Silence, Adam Ondra) | Clip bolts as you climb, safe enough to push limits, Olympic discipline |
Traditional (Trad) Climbing | Gear placed by climber | 20-300 meters | British E / YDS | E12 / 5.14c trad (Rhapsody, Dave MacLeod era) | Place cams and nuts for protection, runouts, adventure climbing ethic |
Big Wall Climbing | Mixed trad / aid | 500-1000 meters | Aid + free grades | El Capitan Dawn Wall 5.14d (Caldwell / Jorgeson) | Multi-day routes, portaledge camps, Yosemite Valley epics, The Nose speed record |
Free Solo | None | Any | Normal route grades | Freerider 5.13a (Alex Honnold, El Cap 2017) | No rope, no gear, mistakes are fatal, Honnold's Free Solo film made it famous |
Deep Water Soloing (DWS) | Ocean below | 10-25 meters | French / YDS | 9a+ (Es Pontas, Chris Sharma) | Roped free climbing, fall into the sea, Mallorca is the capital |
Alpine Climbing | Mixed trad / ice | 500-4000 meters | Alpine grades (PD-ED) | ED3 on routes like Eiger Harlin Direct | Mixed snow ice and rock in the high mountains, commitment and weather |
Ice Climbing | Ice screws | 15-200 meters | WI grades (1-7) | WI7+ on Helmcken Falls Spray On routes | Frozen waterfalls, crampons and ice tools, Canadian Rockies paradise |
Mixed Climbing (Dry Tooling) | Bolts + screws | 15-40 meters | M grades (1-16) | M16 (Parallel World, Dani Arnold territory) | Ice tools on rock and ice, figure-4s, steep overhanging caves |
Expedition / Himalayan | Fixed ropes + alpine | 6000-8849 meters | Alpine + altitude | K2 winter / Everest no-oxygen | 8000m peaks, death zone, supplemental oxygen debates, Nepali Sherpa legends |
Aid Climbing | Gear weight-bearing | 100-1000 meters | A0-A5 | A5 (potential for long leader falls) | Hanging on gear to progress, big wall first ascents, original Yosemite style |
Speed Climbing | Top rope auto-belay | 15 meters | Time seconds | 4.75s (Veddriq Leonardo, 2024) | Identical 15m wall worldwide, Olympic discipline, pure sprint |
Buildering | None (usually illegal) | Variable | Route specific | Burj Khalifa (Alain Robert) | Climbing buildings, Alain Robert the French Spiderman, urban outlaw scene |
Via Ferrata | Fixed steel cables | 100-1000 meters | Italian/German (A-E) | E (extremely difficult) | WWI Italian Alps origin, steel rungs and cables, accessible exposure |
Highball Bouldering | Many crash pads | 6-14 meters | V-scale with R/X danger | V14 Highball (Too Big To Flail, Daniel Woods) | Boulder problems so tall falling is life changing, between bouldering and free solo |
Competition Lead Climbing | Sport bolts | 15 meters | French | 9a (competition route) | On-sight world cup format, Janja Garnbret era, Olympic discipline |
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