Cobra Crack | |
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![]() Cobra Crack as seen from the ground | |
Location | Squamish, British Columbia, Canada |
Coordinates | 49°41′06″N 123°08′13″W / 49.685°N 123.137°W[1] |
Climbing area | Cirque of the Uncrackables, backside of Stawamus Chief. |
Route type | Traditional climbing |
Vertical gain | 45 metres (148 feet)[1] |
Pitches | 1 |
Grade | 5.14b (8c) |
First ascent | Peter Croft, Tami Knight, 1981. |
First free ascent | Sonnie Trotter, June 2006. |
Cobra Crack is a 45-metre (148-foot) long traditional climbing route on a thin crack up an overhanging granite rock face on Stawamus Chief, in Squamish, British Columbia. The route was first ascended by Peter Croft and Tami Knight in 1981 as an aid climb. After rebuffing many leading climbers, most notably Swiss climber Didier Berthod in 2005, the Canadian climber Sonnie Trotter made the first free ascent in 2006. With subsequent ascents, the consensus grade has settled at 5.14b (8c), which ranked Cobra Crack as one of the hardest crack climbs in the world, and almost two decades later, it is still considered one of the world's hardest traditional climbing routes.
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