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	Country	Contributions	Between	Climbers	Crags	Climbs	Ascents
1	United Kingdom	11173	22nd May 2025 – 19th September 2026	116	13	586	1083
2	France	3430	22nd May 2025 – 29th August 2026	32	13	172	326
3	USA	1774	30th July 2025 – 20th September 2026	26	56	167	88
4	Japan	1478	19th July 2025 – 14th August 2026	14	25	107	73
5	Spain	319	31st July 2025 – 14th August 2026	3	9	35	13
6	Switzerland	229	31st July 2025 – 9th August 2026	2	5	21	15
7	New Zealand	216	19th August 2025 – 14th August 2026	1	1	17	13
8	Canada	170	10th September 2025 – 14th August 2026	1	9	25	3
9	Italy	166	12th August 2025 – 16th August 2026	2	7	19	7
10	Germany	151	8th November 2025 – 6th August 2026	4	6	10	5

	Date	Time	User	Type	Name	Attribute
4301	27th April 2026	09:44:43 UTC	Mono	climb	West Route	crag_location_breadcrumb
Before `None` After `United Kingdom / England / Somerset / Cheddar`
4302	27th April 2026	09:44:43 UTC	Mono	climb	West Route	crag_id
Before `None` After `240`
4303	27th April 2026	09:44:43 UTC	Mono	climb	West Route	crag_name
Before `None` After `Cheddar Gorge`
4304	27th April 2026	09:44:43 UTC	Mono	climb	West Route	notes_pretty
Before `<p>The aid version of <a href="/climb/2902/west-route">West Route</a>.</p>` After `<p>The aid version of <a href="/climb/2902/west-route" rel="noopener noreferrer">West Route</a>.</p>`
4305	27th April 2026	09:43:03 UTC	Mono	climb	The Sun of Rightesousness	crag_id
Before `None` After `285`
4306	27th April 2026	09:43:03 UTC	Mono	climb	The Sun of Rightesousness	crag_name
Before `None` After `Anstey's Cove`
4307	27th April 2026	09:43:03 UTC	Mono	climb	The Sun of Rightesousness	crag_location_breadcrumb
Before `None` After `United Kingdom / England / Torbay / Torquay`
4308	27th April 2026	09:43:03 UTC	Mono	climb	The Sun of Rightesousness	crag_location_breadcrumb_pretty
Before `None` After `<a href="/crags/location/United Kingdom" class="text-muted">United Kingdom</a> / <a href="/crags/location/United Kingdom/England" class="text-muted">England</a> / <a href="/crags/location/United Kingdom/England/Torbay" class="text-muted">Torbay</a> / <a href="/crags/location/United Kingdom/England/Torbay/Torquay" class="text-muted">Torquay</a>`
4309	27th April 2026	09:41:45 UTC	Mono	climb	Cwtch Mawr	crag_location_breadcrumb_pretty
Before `None` After `<a href="/crags/location/United Kingdom" class="text-muted">United Kingdom</a> / <a href="/crags/location/United Kingdom/Wales" class="text-muted">Wales</a> / <a href="/crags/location/United Kingdom/Wales/Gwynedd" class="text-muted">Gwynedd</a> / <a href="/crags/location/United Kingdom/Wales/Gwynedd/Caernarfon" class="text-muted">Caernarfon</a>`
4310	27th April 2026	09:41:45 UTC	Mono	climb	Cwtch Mawr	crag_id
Before `None` After `4`
4311	27th April 2026	09:41:45 UTC	Mono	climb	Cwtch Mawr	crag_name
Before `None` After `Dinas Cromlech`
4312	27th April 2026	09:41:45 UTC	Mono	climb	Cwtch Mawr	crag_name_prefix
Before `at` After `on`
4313	27th April 2026	09:41:45 UTC	Mono	climb	Cwtch Mawr	crag_location_breadcrumb
Before `None` After `United Kingdom / Wales / Gwynedd / Caernarfon`
4314	27th April 2026	09:39:54 UTC	Mono	climb	Southern Belle	crag_location_breadcrumb
Before `None` After `United States / California / Mariposa County`
4315	27th April 2026	09:39:54 UTC	Mono	climb	Southern Belle	crag_name
Before `None` After `Half Dome`
4316	27th April 2026	09:39:54 UTC	Mono	climb	Southern Belle	crag_id
Before `None` After `20726`
4317	27th April 2026	09:39:54 UTC	Mono	climb	Southern Belle	crag_location_breadcrumb_pretty
Before `None` After `<a href="/crags/location/United States" class="text-muted">United States</a> / <a href="/crags/location/United States/California" class="text-muted">California</a> / <a href="/crags/location/United States/California/Mariposa County" class="text-muted">Mariposa County</a>`
4318	27th April 2026	09:39:54 UTC	Mono	climb	Southern Belle	crag_name_prefix
Before `at` After `on`
4319	27th April 2026	09:34:14 UTC	Mono	climb	Hall of Mirrors	crag_name
Before `None` After `Glacier Point`
4320	27th April 2026	09:34:14 UTC	Mono	climb	Hall of Mirrors	notes_pretty
Before <blockquote> <p>The history of the Hall of Mirrors is now fairly well known. Between 1976 and September 1980, the route grew by a process of accretion, countless attempts by different teams involving various and often enough conflicting personalities. However, for the sake of convenience, the growth of the route may be divided into three distinct stages, dominated, in succession, by the skills and philosophies of three different prime motivators, Mark Wilford, Dave Austin, and Chris Cantwell. Every advance up the wall was likewise preceded by some major change in equipment, technique, or strategy. These include siege climbing from portaledges, the provisional use of aid chains, and the appearance of the Galibier “Contact” shoe, with its softer, more malleable, and adhesive rubber.</p> <p>During the drought of 1976-77, Mark Wilford of Colorado Springs established the route’s first two pitches, titling his effort The Opening of Misty Beethoven, after a highly overrated, though somewhat programmatic, pornographic film. After such an ambitious beginning, it is not clear why he stopped so soon. But the route is highly tempermental at best, and its conditions were undoubtedly at their greasiest after a scorching, bone- dry summer. By self-admission, Wilford had never friction climbed before either. He had no way of knowing in advance that using chalk would increase the rating of the second pitch several additional grades. So, the hypothetical third pitch must have appeared impossible, although it was to be rated finally only 5.10a.</p> <p>It was at this point that Dave Austin decided to administer a salutory dose of technical hygiene. Backed by experience he had gained on A Mother’s Lament, Austin realized the use of chalk was anathema to advanced foonting* because the particles that fell down from his hands destroyed adhesion between shoe rubber and the smooth rock surface. After recruiting Chris Cantwell and me from the Lodge parking lot, Austin now added pitches three through eight to a route renamed the Hall of Mirrors. Even with the aid of fixed ropes and siege tactics, however, we were unable to complete the Unfinished Ninth, a pitch that was eventually to be rated 5.12b.</p> <p>Accompanied at one time or another by either Scott Cole or Scott Burk, Cantwell took over the lead. In the fall of 1979 he had obtained a prototype pair of “Contacts,” a new softer rubber shoe by Galibier that permitted better friction on higher-angle stone. He finished the Ninth and, over the next year, undaunted by storms and earthquakes, pushed the route up to the base of the 13th pitch. Here he decided, after drilling a few miraculous bolts up a nearly vertical prow, that a bolt ladder was finally necessary.</p> <p>However, when Austin accompanied Cantwell up the fixed lines to this new high point, there was disagreement. Austin believed that following a ramp a few feet to the right would have eliminated the need for a ladder. Drilling could have been accomplished from all-natural stances, Austin argued. But in order to make the line harder for the sake of difficulty as an end in itself, Cantwell had refused to compromise with the natural rock environment and, instead, had deliberately chosen to construct a pre-placed “free ladder” up what he referred to as the “line of strength.” Feeling such tactics were unconscionable, Austin elected to drop out. Still, Cantwell persevered. After freeing the 13th, at a tentative 5.13 standard, he went on to add two more hard pitches before intercepting the Coonyard to Rim route. On this final push, in September 1980, Scott Burke was his partner.</p> <p>Before they were freed, Half Dome and the west face of El Capitan had been conventional aid routes for over twenty years. The rationale behind freeing the northwest face of Half Dome was based on the fact that it was America’s first grade six. But Hall of Mirrors was the first time a Yosemite grade six had been conceived of as a free climb from its inception. However, it is especially significant that the Cantwell-Austin break underscores the conflicting face-climbing traditions that were introduced at the start of this article. Cantwell wished to maximize difficulty by constructing a well-protected free line, while Austin wished to preserve boldness by following the natural line of greatest weakness.</p> <ul> <li>Foonting is a technical Yosemite term used in friction climbing. It involves “smearing” on high-angle slabs while rapidly “padding” upward; moving up, in essence, faster than moving back down.</li> </ul> </blockquote> <h3>References</h3> <p>[1] <a href="https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198204100/Method-and-Madness-Evolution-of-Yosemite-Face-Climbing-Standards">https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198204100/Method-and-Madness-Evolution-of-Yosemite-Face-Climbing-Standards</a></p> After <blockquote> <p>The history of the Hall of Mirrors is now fairly well known. Between 1976 and September 1980, the route grew by a process of accretion, countless attempts by different teams involving various and often enough conflicting personalities. However, for the sake of convenience, the growth of the route may be divided into three distinct stages, dominated, in succession, by the skills and philosophies of three different prime motivators, Mark Wilford, Dave Austin, and Chris Cantwell. Every advance up the wall was likewise preceded by some major change in equipment, technique, or strategy. These include siege climbing from portaledges, the provisional use of aid chains, and the appearance of the Galibier “Contact” shoe, with its softer, more malleable, and adhesive rubber.</p> <p>During the drought of 1976-77, Mark Wilford of Colorado Springs established the route’s first two pitches, titling his effort The Opening of Misty Beethoven, after a highly overrated, though somewhat programmatic, pornographic film. After such an ambitious beginning, it is not clear why he stopped so soon. But the route is highly tempermental at best, and its conditions were undoubtedly at their greasiest after a scorching, bone- dry summer. By self-admission, Wilford had never friction climbed before either. He had no way of knowing in advance that using chalk would increase the rating of the second pitch several additional grades. So, the hypothetical third pitch must have appeared impossible, although it was to be rated finally only 5.10a.</p> <p>It was at this point that Dave Austin decided to administer a salutory dose of technical hygiene. Backed by experience he had gained on A Mother’s Lament, Austin realized the use of chalk was anathema to advanced foonting* because the particles that fell down from his hands destroyed adhesion between shoe rubber and the smooth rock surface. After recruiting Chris Cantwell and me from the Lodge parking lot, Austin now added pitches three through eight to a route renamed the Hall of Mirrors. Even with the aid of fixed ropes and siege tactics, however, we were unable to complete the Unfinished Ninth, a pitch that was eventually to be rated 5.12b.</p> <p>Accompanied at one time or another by either Scott Cole or Scott Burk, Cantwell took over the lead. In the fall of 1979 he had obtained a prototype pair of “Contacts,” a new softer rubber shoe by Galibier that permitted better friction on higher-angle stone. He finished the Ninth and, over the next year, undaunted by storms and earthquakes, pushed the route up to the base of the 13th pitch. Here he decided, after drilling a few miraculous bolts up a nearly vertical prow, that a bolt ladder was finally necessary.</p> <p>However, when Austin accompanied Cantwell up the fixed lines to this new high point, there was disagreement. Austin believed that following a ramp a few feet to the right would have eliminated the need for a ladder. Drilling could have been accomplished from all-natural stances, Austin argued. But in order to make the line harder for the sake of difficulty as an end in itself, Cantwell had refused to compromise with the natural rock environment and, instead, had deliberately chosen to construct a pre-placed “free ladder” up what he referred to as the “line of strength.” Feeling such tactics were unconscionable, Austin elected to drop out. Still, Cantwell persevered. After freeing the 13th, at a tentative 5.13 standard, he went on to add two more hard pitches before intercepting the Coonyard to Rim route. On this final push, in September 1980, Scott Burke was his partner.</p> <p>Before they were freed, Half Dome and the west face of El Capitan had been conventional aid routes for over twenty years. The rationale behind freeing the northwest face of Half Dome was based on the fact that it was America’s first grade six. But Hall of Mirrors was the first time a Yosemite grade six had been conceived of as a free climb from its inception. However, it is especially significant that the Cantwell-Austin break underscores the conflicting face-climbing traditions that were introduced at the start of this article. Cantwell wished to maximize difficulty by constructing a well-protected free line, while Austin wished to preserve boldness by following the natural line of greatest weakness.</p> <ul> <li>Foonting is a technical Yosemite term used in friction climbing. It involves “smearing” on high-angle slabs while rapidly “padding” upward; moving up, in essence, faster than moving back down.</li> </ul> </blockquote> <h3>References</h3> <p>[1] <a href="https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198204100/Method-and-Madness-Evolution-of-Yosemite-Face-Climbing-Standards" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198204100/Method-and-Madness-Evolution-of-Yosemite-Face-Climbing-Standards</a></p>

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