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Redpoint (climbing)

For other uses, see Red Point (disambiguation).
Kurt Albert climbing at the "Streitberger Schild" near Streitberg, Frankenjura, Germany, where the first Rotpunkt was made in 1975.[1]
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In rock climbing, a redpoint is the free-climb of a climbing route by lead climbing. The lead climber cannot use any artificial aid—including their climbing protection—to hold their weight during the climb. If they fall, they cannot place any of their weight on the rope, and hangdogging is not allowed. The lead climber can have attempted or practised the route many times beforehand, such as by headpointing or by top roping.[2]

Climbers will try to redpoint a route after having failed to onsight the route, which means to free-climb a route on the first attempt with no falls and no prior beta, or to flash the route, which means to free-climb the route on the first attempt with no falls but with prior beta.[3] The first successful redpoint of a climbing route, in the absence of any prior onsight or flash, is recorded as the first free ascent (FFA) of that route.[4]

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