Camille Coudert has made the seventh ascent of Le Pied à Coulisse (f8C+), and, in line with the first ascensionist Guillaume Glairon-Mondet, he has suggested 8C+ for the grade.

The boulder, in Rocher Gréau, Fontainebleau, has received an array of proposed grades since its first ascent in 2016, with the experienced Jimmy Webb suggesting 8C, and Nico Pelorson suggesting a further downgrade to 8B+.

Coudert himself was initially reserved when speaking about the grade, suggesting that the 'large number of sessions it took [him] to fall in the last move with sweaty fingers' meant that he was 'no longer very objective about the difficulty of the boulder'. However, he has since suggested 8C+ for the grade.

Sharing the news on social media - originally in French - Coudert said:

'Finally I mantled onto the top of this boulder which had become a bête noire for me, after I almost did it very quickly last year. When on only the third session I fell on the last move (which is however one of the simplest)'.

'In the end it took me ten sessions last year to fall almost exclusively on this last move and even in one session to fall on the final slab. I had stopped trying the boulder during the summer and since then I hadn't gone back. I went back to the boulder last week to get a feel of it again and finally it went this morning!'

If eventually confirmed at 8C+, Le Pied à Coulisse will be Coudert's joint second hardest ascent, after his 2022 ascent of Soudain Seul, the world's second 9A boulder, albeit one with its own grade disputes.