Scrambling Grades Explained

Scrambling is the best! You have to understand the grading system first before getting started. But when you work your way up the ladder it can be very rewarding!

At this moment is when I learned I won’t be going past Class 1 😅

As a climber I would say, thats dangerous stuff. Any mistake can lead to death. Thats litterally free solo, but with easy climb. Would not advise to do for anyone who is not fit enough, who is not experienced in real climbing, and 100% sure he can make it

Nice video. That last scramble looked great.

One of my mates is a climber who has climbed up to E8. He refuses to come scrambling with me (I only do G1 & G2 never used ropes), reckoning that its stupidly dangerous. I wont go anywhere near climbing with him, reckoning that I dont have the nerve for it. I recently lost my nerve at the foot of Bell Rib on Yewbarrow, which is a G3 looked pretty terminal if a mistake was made. I consoled myself with the G1 scramble in the gully below up to Great Door. It did make me wonder if I have the stones for risk taking on the mountains any more.

Nice video, very informative!

Amazing video, thank you!

People have free soloed the north face of the Eiger. So I guess that would be a class 3 scramble for those people.

One person's scramble is another's rope protected climb , conversely another person's sever rope climb is just an easy scramble . Third classing a 5.8 is common for many climbers .

Wow, cracking video..the guy on Crib Goch looked cool! 😂 Well done on the grade 3, too exposed for me. 👍

From what I have seen here and elsewhere, is the precise distinctions between scrambling (class 4) and low grade climbing (class 5.0 to 5.4)------>are totally scrambled and indistinct. Like in the definition of a species there should be one archetypal section of rock for each grade, that is widely agreed upon. Better still some organization or group of organizations should create a series of 50 meter long artificial climbing surfaces (i.e. resembling real rock) that precisely define what each grade looks like.

just done this in the rain and at 40mph winds inside the white rain clouds, all I can say is f*** me it was a beast of a challenge to stay alive, that's how it felt for 4 hours pretty much non stop, it was only my 4th scramble so that escalated pretty fast for me

That G2 looks shit scary

So what would a UIAA grade IV be? Grade 2 scramble? Also, do I hear a hint of a Dutch accent?

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If you're using ropes, you're not scrambling, you're climbing

Matterhoen grade ?

Grade 1 fun, the others are not for me.

Ugh. Shitty rock. I am spoiled by Sierra granite. That Grade 3 is not that nasty. Exposure, but secure moves. More like a high end class 3 in the Sierras. Class 4 is nastier.

your wrong, there's 4 grades and on the first theres no hands are needed for starters