Fred Rouhling

Fred Rouhling (born 24 January 1970) is a French rock climber, famed for his 1995 proposal of the grade 9b/5.15b for his unrepeated climb Akira. (See Realization, or rather Biographie.) Other notable climbs of his include:

  • Hugh (9a) in Eaux-Claires, France, first ascent (FA) in 1993.
  • L'autre côté du ciel, or The Other Side of the Sky, (9a) in Eaux-Claires, France, FA in 1997.
  • In 2002, repeated Bain de Sang (9a, FA by Fred Nicole) in Saint Loup, Switzerland.
  • Mandallaz Drive (9a/5.14d) at d’Allonzier la Caille, near Haute-Savoie, south of Geneva, FA in 2004.
  • In 2007, FA of Salamandre 9a/b at Saint-Pierre en Faucigny.

Problems

Although the controversy about his route Akira seems to have settled down with Climbing magazine and the popular website 8a.nu supporting his claim in the recent past, many of his boulder first ascents, like Soumission (V14), were destroyed for unknown reasons. Even boulder problems of some of his friends, like the test piece of Romain Desgranges Kaiser Sauzé with the breaking grade of 8C+, were destroyed, which put the bouldering community in stress and discussions about the existence and persistence of the boulder problems.

gollark: Those are literally the complements of each other, so you can't have one matter and the other not matter.
gollark: I cannot, say, begin taking public transport 50% more, and immediately make everyone else do so.
gollark: Yes. Which is nevertheless not hugely large.
gollark: Collective actions would. Your individual action won't do much unless you somehow simultaneously convince everyone else.
gollark: That doesn't imply that you doing something... does something.

See also
  • Notable first free ascents
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