The Hardest Trad Routes in the World

A list of all the sngle pitch trad routes E10 or harder that have currently been climbed, including details of the first ascent.

Note that the definition of 'single pitch' is a little loose. The idea is to include things like Drifter's Escape where the meat of the climbing is a very hard single pitch, but to exclude big walls like Magic Mushroom where the individual pitches can be very hard but the real difficulty is the effort of climbing all the pitches.

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61 entries on the list.

Climb Grade First Ascent
1 Bon Voyage E12 James Pearson, Between 1st Jan 2023 and 9th Feb 2023
2 Rhapsody E11 Dave MacLeod, 9th Apr 2006
3 Meltdown E11 Beth Rodden, 14th Feb 2008
4 Echo Wall E11 Dave MacLeod, 28th Jul 2008
5 Power Ranger E11 James Pearson, 2017
6 Nothing Lasts E11 Franco Cookson, 9th Apr 2017
7 Tribe E11 Jacopo Larcher, Mar 2019
8 Immortal E11 Franco Cookson, 17th Apr 2021
9 Lexicon E11 Neil Gresham, 4th Sep 2021
10 The Best Things In Life Are Free E11 William Moss, 12th Mar 2023
11 Crown Royale E11 Pete Whittaker, Between 23rd Sep 2023 and 28th Sep 2023
12 Drifter's Escape E11 Connor Herson, 2025
13 Magic Line E10 Ron Kauk, 6th Dec 1996
14 Equilibrium E10 Neil Bentley, 24th Feb 2000
15 Doctor Dolittle E10 John Arran, 2001
16 A Moment of Clarity E10 John Gaskins, Feb 2006
17 To Hell and Back E10 Dave MacLeod, 24th Jul 2007
18 The Human Skewer Direct E10 Mark Edwards, Aug 2007
19 Direquiem E10 Sonnie Trotter, 6th May 2008
20 Viceroy E10 Matt Wilder, 2009
21 Smart Went Crazy E10 Matt Segal, Mar 2009
22 Die by the Drop E10 Dave MacLeod, 31st Oct 2010
23 Century Crack E10 Pete Whittaker, Tom Randall, Nov 2011
24 The Bull E10 Jeremy Smith, May 2013
25 The Recovery Drink E10 Nicolas Favresse, 22nd May 2013
26 Hold Fast, Hold True E10 Julian Lines, Jun 2013
27 Parthian Shot E10 Ben Bransby, Nov 2013
28 Sleepy Hollow E10 Pete Whittaker, 8th Dec 2013
29 The Pura Pura E10 Tom Randall, 2014
30 Family Man E10 Sonnie Trotter, 2014
31 Hanuman E10 Jonas Schild, Mar 2014
32 The Bigger Baron E10 Pete Whittaker, 31st Mar 2014
33 Choronzon E10 Neil Mawson, 21st Sep 2014
34 Stranger Than Fiction E10 Mason Earle, 2015
35 Blackbeard's Tears E10 Ethan Pringle, 2016
36 Le Voyage E10 James Pearson, 2017
37 Into the Sun E10 Bernd Zangerl, Aug 2017
38 En Passant E10 Nathan Hadley, 1st May 2019
39 GreatNess Wall E10 Steve McClure, 27th May 2019
40 Crown Duel E10 Pete Whittaker, Aug 2019
41 Mind Riot E10 Dave MacLeod, Oct 2019
42 Final Score E10 Neil Gresham, Sep 2020
43 La Bruja E10 Ignacio Mulero, 2021
44 Hard Cheese E10 Craig Matheson, 28th May 2021
45 What We Do in the Shadows E10 Robbie Phillips, 5th Oct 2021
46 The Great Rift E10 Pete Whittaker, Tom Randall, Nov 2021
47 Jeune et Con E10 Jacopo Larcher, Apr 2022
48 The Sandman E10 Franco Cookson, 8th Apr 2022
49 El Boulder del Pedal E10 Ignacio Mulero, Feb 2023
50 Coldfinger E10 Gordon Lennox, 17th Feb 2023
51 Magical Thinking E10 Mathew Wright, Jul 2023
52 Eigerdosis E10 Pete Whittaker, Aug 2023
53 Black Thistle E10 Mathew Wright, 18th Aug 2023
54 Yma O Hyd E10 James McHaffie, Sep 2024
55 Autobahn E10 Tom Randall, 23rd Sep 2024
56 Llechan Lân E10 Osian Parry, 2nd Jul 2025
57 Gunslinger E10 -
58 Sammansvärjning E10 -
59 A Denti Stretti E10 -
60 Dr Snuggles E10 -
61 Empath E10 -