page_title: List of first ascents (sport climbing)
section_title: Deep-water solo routes
hierarchical_section_title: List of first ascents (sport climbing) / Deep-water solo routes
caption_attribution_description: English: Bryan Kennedy solos the "Kennedy variant" direct start to Battlements Organ Pipes Mt Wellington Tasmania 1977
context_page_description: In free climbing, a first ascent, or first free ascent is the first successful, documented climb of a route or boulder performed without using equipment such as anchors, quickdraws or ropes for aiding progression or resting. In this article, notable first ascents of hard routes and boulders are listed, which are regarded worldwide as milestones in the history of free climbing.
  Ratings on the hardest climbs tend to be speculative, until other climbers have had a chance to complete the routes and a consensus can be reached on the precise grade. This becomes increasingly difficult as the grade increases, because fewer climbers are capable of repeating the route and passing judgment on its grade.
context_section_description: 9b (5.15b) (unconfirmed):
  Alasha - Mallorca (ESP) - September 12, 2016.  First ascent by Chris Sharma, who estimated its grade based on the effort it took to climb it without rope: "If it had bolts on it, it probably wouldn’t be a 9b (5.15b). But when you’re 60 feet up with no bolts, it takes the same amount of effort.” Sharma named the route after his daughter, Alana Sharma.
  9a+ (5.15a):
  Es Pontàs - Mallorca (ESP) - September 26, 2007.  First ascent by Chris Sharma. Repeated by Jernej Kruder in November 2016. It features a 7 feet (2.1 m) dyno that took Sharma over 50 attempts to stick.
caption: Bryan Kennedy free soloing the Kennedy variant to the Organ Pipes, Mount Wellington (AUS), 1977
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