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Users have 650,841 ticks in their logbooks.
Climbs database lists 104,793 climbs on 9,012 different crags in the UK and around the world.

Average / Max Grades by Year

1969	1	I		I
1971	1	VI		VI
1972	9	I/II		IV
1973	3	I/II		II
1974	5	II		V
1975	18	II		IV
1976	9	II		V
1977	30	II		IV
1978	12	II/III		IV
1979	10	III		IV
1980	21	II/III		V
1981	20	II		IV
1982	19	II		IV
1983	24	II/III		V
1984	30	III		VII
1985	19	III		V
1986	61	III		VI
1987	31	II/III		VI
1988	29	II/III		VII
1989	19	II/III		VI
1990	46	II		V
1991	54	II/III		VI
1992	45	II		V
1993	38	II/III		V
1994	44	II/III		VII
1995	72	II/III		V
1996	115	II/III		VI
1997	108	II/III		VII
1998	134	II/III		VI
1999	120	II/III		VI
2000	145	II/III		VI
2001	228	II/III		VI
2002	231	II/III		VII
2003	296	II/III		VI
2004	415	II/III		VII
2005	695	II/III		VI
2006	1,546	II/III		VII
2007	1,782	II/III		IX
2008	2,663	II/III		IX
2009	206	II/III		VI

Climbs by Country

Argentina	16	0.0%
Australia	2,212	0.3%
Austria	188	0.0%
Belgium	110	0.0%
Botswana	17	0.0%
Brazil	20	0.0%
Canada	1,327	0.2%
Channel Islands	1,450	0.2%
China	103	0.0%
Croatia	92	0.0%
Cyprus	667	0.1%
England	451,722	69.4%
Finland	1,813	0.3%
France	14,202	2.2%
Germany	411	0.1%
Greece	4,234	0.7%
Hong Kong	34	0.0%
India	12	0.0%
Ireland	2,302	0.4%
Italy	4,577	0.7%
Jordan	26	0.0%
Kenya	15	0.0%
Luxembourg	13	0.0%
Malaysia	14	0.0%
Malta	14	0.0%
Mexico	118	0.0%
Morocco	127	0.0%
Nepal	15	0.0%
New Zealand	907	0.1%
Norway	1,690	0.3%
Oman	121	0.0%
Peru	15	0.0%
Poland	24	0.0%
Portugal	166	0.0%
Scotland	53,321	8.2%
Slovenia	50	0.0%
South Africa	326	0.1%
Spain	21,589	3.3%
Sweden	29	0.0%
Switzerland	1,349	0.2%
Syria	40	0.0%
Thailand	1,272	0.2%
Turkey	409	0.1%
UAE	46	0.0%
UNKNOWN	107	0.0%
USA	3,814	0.6%
Vietnam	19	0.0%
Wales	80,630	12.4%

Top 20 Crags (gritstone)
Percentages shown are based on 254,127 ticks of gritstone climbs

Stanage Popular	35,783	14.1%
Burbage North	21,858	8.6%
Birchen Edge	15,706	6.2%
Froggatt Edge	15,410	6.1%
Stanage Plantation	14,330	5.6%
Stanage High Neb	8,409	3.3%
Windgather Rocks	8,185	3.2%
Almscliff	7,491	2.9%
Roaches Upper Tier	6,951	2.7%
Roaches Lower Tier	6,295	2.5%
Millstone Edge	6,184	2.4%
Brimham Rocks	5,933	2.3%
Bamford Edge	5,635	2.2%
Curbar Edge	5,527	2.2%
Stanage End	4,773	1.9%
Rivelin Edge	4,420	1.7%
Lawrencefield	4,337	1.7%
Burbage South Valley Boulders	3,669	1.4%
Roaches Skyline	3,302	1.3%
Castle Naze	3,275	1.3%

Top 20 Crags (other rocktypes)
Percentages shown are based on 397,692 ticks of non-gritstone climbs

The Cuttings	5,472	1.4%
Craig Bwlch y Moch (Tremadog)	5,347	1.3%
Shepherds Crag	5,253	1.3%
Scugdale - Scot Crags	4,799	1.2%
Harrisons Rocks	4,443	1.1%
Blacknor South	4,028	1.0%
Harborough Rocks	3,835	1.0%
Bowden Doors	3,560	0.9%
Bosigran	3,124	0.8%
Symonds Yat	3,036	0.8%
Cheyne Wears Area	3,027	0.8%
Hutton Roof Crags	3,011	0.8%
Horseshoe Quarry	2,943	0.7%
The Dewerstone	2,831	0.7%
Idwal Slabs (aka Cwm Idwal)	2,828	0.7%
Subluminal	2,797	0.7%
Trevor Rocks Area	2,750	0.7%
Wintour's Leap	2,691	0.7%
Sierra de Toix	2,684	0.7%
Avon Gorge (Sea Walls)	2,635	0.7%

Top 20 Climbs (gritstone)

Flying Buttress	902
Heather Wall	850
Sunset Crack	796
Three Pebble Slab	759
Tody's Wall	731
Christmas Crack	721
Hollybush Crack	720
Sunset Slab	683
Hargreaves' Original Route	649
Heaven Crack	607
Black Hawk Hell Crack	591
Inverted V	575
Manchester Buttress	569
Green Gut	554
Via Media	552
Knight's Move	551
Central Trinity	547
Trafalgar Crack	537
Trapeze Direct	529
Paradise Wall	528

Top 20 Climbs (other rocktypes)

Little Chamonix	753
Hope	516
One Step in the Clouds	488
Christmas Curry	423
The Ordinary Route	421
Crackstone Rib	394
Middlefell Buttress	390
Grooved Arete	382
Troutdale Pinnacle	365
The Direct Route (Milestone...	359
Tennis Shoe	358
Seamstress	355
Brown Slabs Direct	339
Christmas Curry/Micah Finish	337
Demo Route	332
Ardus	327
Brown Slabs	323
Flying Buttress	322
Doorpost	314
Central Groove	310

Top 20 Wishlist Climbs (gritstone)

The Sloth	159
Valkyrie	122
Flying Buttress Direct	121
The File	85
Three Pebble Slab	77
The Right Unconquerable	71
The Left Unconquerable	70
Valkyrie	69
Quietus	64
Great North Road	62
The Rasp	61
Long Tall Sally	59
Chequers Buttress	56
London Wall	53
Archangel	50
Goliath's Groove	49
Wings of Unreason	49
Commander Energy	48
Sunset Slab	46
Flying Buttress	45

Top 20 Wishlist Climbs (other rocktypes)

A Dream of White Horses	225
Cenotaph Corner	217
Cemetery Gates	140
Left Wall	131
Tower Ridge	102
Cuillin Ridge Traverse	85
Comes the Dervish	73
Tower Ridge	73
East Face Route	70
Grooved Arete	70
Right Wall	62
Point Five Gully	58
Centurion	58
Main Wall	55
Tophet Wall	54
The Devil's Slide	53
Squareface	53
The Old Man	52
The Long Climb	52
Eliminate 'A'	51

Climbs by Type of climb

Winter	9,554	1.5%
Trad	476,612	73.2%
Sport	105,898	16.3%
Bouldering	52,366	8.0%
Aid	85	0.0%
Alpine	2,821	0.4%
Ice	1,693	0.3%
Mixed	308	0.0%
Via Ferrata	310	0.0%
Scrambling	1,590	0.2%

Climbs by Grade


Winter
I	1767	18.5%
I/II	582	6.1%
II	2267	23.7%
II/III	591	6.2%
III	1814	19.0%
IV	1541	16.1%
V	724	7.6%
VI	225	2.4%
VII	32	0.3%
VIII	9	0.1%
IX	2	0.0%

Trad
M	10623	2.2%
D	30696	6.4%
HD	1894	0.4%
VD	59485	12.5%
HVD	14251	3.0%
MS	1726	0.4%
S	65498	13.7%
HS	47366	9.9%
MVS	2260	0.5%
VS	97949	20.6%
HVS	55886	11.7%
E1	34305	7.2%
E2	21234	4.5%
E3	10732	2.3%
E4	5409	1.1%
E5	2764	0.6%
E6	716	0.2%
E7	214	0.0%
E8	48	0.0%
E9	11	0.0%
E10	4	0.0%
E11	2	0.0%
none	10461	2.2%
XS	40	0.0%
5.1	8	0.0%
5.2	4	0.0%
5.3	9	0.0%
5.4	49	0.0%
5.5	47	0.0%
5.6	213	0.0%
5.7	375	0.1%
5.8	432	0.1%
5.9	567	0.1%
5.10a	318	0.1%
5.10b	290	0.1%
5.10c	227	0.0%
5.10d	113	0.0%
5.11a	121	0.0%
5.11b	85	0.0%
5.11c	52	0.0%
5.11d	15	0.0%
5.12a	20	0.0%
5.12b	5	0.0%
5.12c	6	0.0%
5.13a	2	0.0%
F5	1	0.0%
F5+	3	0.0%
F6a	2	0.0%
F6b	1	0.0%
6	2	0.0%
8	1	0.0%
9	1	0.0%
10	1	0.0%
12	2	0.0%
15	5	0.0%
16	2	0.0%
18	20	0.0%
19	7	0.0%
20	7	0.0%
21	7	0.0%
22	6	0.0%
23	4	0.0%
24	4	0.0%
25	2	0.0%
26	1	0.0%
28	1	0.0%

Sport
F2	385	0.4%
F2+	604	0.6%
F3	2365	2.2%
F3+	1800	1.7%
F4	5533	5.2%
F4+	6322	6.0%
F5	11040	10.4%
F5+	11863	11.2%
F6a	13165	12.4%
F6a+	10930	10.3%
F6b	8355	7.9%
F6b+	5857	5.5%
F6c	6024	5.7%
F6c+	3161	3.0%