First ascent
In climbing, the first climb to reach the top of a mountain is called first ascent. The risks for the climbers are often very high, because the way to the top is not known. That is why first ascents are often carefully recorded as part of the history of a mountain and usually mentioned in books about that mountain.
Some use the words "last ascent" as a joke for a way that was no pleasure and no one wants to do it like the first climbers.
First Ascent Media
Jonathan Siegrist on the first free ascent (FFA) of Spectrum Template:Climbing grade, Red Rocks, Nevada.
Danish climbers Kristoffer Szilas and Martin Ploug (pictured) about to summit the unclimbed, Ren Zhong Feng (5800m), in China via their new route Lost to Ice (grade TD M4, WI4, 1300m)
Adam Ondra making the first redpoint ascent of Silence, the world's first Template:Climbing grade sport climb.
Josune Bereziartu on the FFA and FFFA of Yeah Man (8b+ 5.14a, 300-metres, 9 pitches), on the Grand Pfad in Bern, Switzerland
Other websites
- Alpinist Magazine Archived 2008-09-04 at the Wayback Machine Peter Mortimer's First Ascent. Issue - 17
