Indian Face

Indian Face
Indian Face
	Crag of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, Snowdon, Wales
Location	Snowdon, Wales
Coordinates	53°04′45″N 4°05′38″W / 53.0792°N 4.0939°W
Climbing area	Clogwyn Du'r Arddu
Route type	Traditional climbing
Vertical gain	45 metres (148 ft)
Pitches	1
Grade	E9 6c (British); 5.13a X (American)
First free ascent	Johnny Dawes; 4 October 1986

Indian Face is a 45-metre (148 ft) traditional climbing route on the rhyolite "Great Wall" of the East Buttress of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, in Wales. When English climber Johnny Dawes completed the first free ascent of the route on 4 October 1986, it was graded E9 6c or (5.13a X), the first-ever E9-graded route, and was considered one of the hardest traditional climbing routes in the world.^[4]^[5]

Indian Face is still considered one of the world's most intimidating traditional climbs, and even decades after its first ascent, it is rarely repeated.^[6] The ascent was an historic moment in the transition from traditional climbing as the dominant form of extreme rock climbing (in Britain, and elsewhere), to the safer form of sport climbing, which became the focus for the leading climbers.

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