UKC

Trying to find the most climbed and then logged routes in the world.

Arete des Cosmiques (AD 3) Is pretty high up there
Flying Buttress (HVD 4a)

Any other famous ones? Like thousands of ticks on UKC?

In reply to zimpara:

Mount Snowdon

In reply to GrahamD:

I'm gonna discount that one because it is at altitude.

In reply to zimpara:


http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/graphs.html#top20climbs

In reply to zimpara:

Christmas Crack
Little Chamonix

In reply to zimpara:

According to Rockfax the most climbed route in the N Wales guidebook is 'one step in the clouds'

Not exactly international but popular

In reply to zimpara:
Preikestolen in Norway gets about 300 000 visitors a year. 7000 in one day this summef. IIRC it's about 1.5 hours walk one way. Depends on how we define "climbed" I guess.

In reply to zimpara:

All the routes on Idwal Slabs have to be high on the list.

In reply to zimpara:
If you count downclimbs then I bet Isometric Chimney (2a) would be a contender. I've done it about 20 times myself and watched once as it received about 30 descents in half as many minutes.
Not many UKC logs but is that the only criteria?

In reply to planetmarshall:

Amazed to see that Little Chamonix has now overtaken all the popular routes on Stanage. I'm sure when that list was first created the top 20 were all gritstone, which is why the need for the non-gritstone list

Due to the easy access to the crag, the simplicity of climbing the routes and the population centres nearby I'd have thought that few routes in the world could match these for number of ascents, unless we include hill-walking

Maybe some of the more popular VFs in the dolomites like Brigata Tridentina (VF) (VF3B) - only 200 UKC ticks, but you could easily get that many people climbing it in one day

In reply to planetmarshall:

I am frequently surprised by the classic routes that I seem to have missed in the last four decades. I don't know whether to be reassured to find I've only missed one out of the top 40 in those lists or depressed that I'm so predictable.

Cemetery Gates, in case anyone was wondering, which is pretty shocking, I know.

In reply to Dave Garnett:



Same!