Alphane is a bouldering route in Chironico, Switzerland. It is graded at , making it one of the hardest boulders in the world.
Alphane sits to the left of Dave Graham's Alphane Moon , and was discovered by Graham many years before its first ascent by American climber Shawn Raboutou on the 6th April, 2022. Within the following 9 months it had been repeated by three more climbers.
Ascents
1st: Shawn Raboutou on 6 April 2022 2nd: on 20 October 2022 3rd: Will Bosi on 31 October 2022 4th: Simon Lorenzi on 15 December 2022 5th: Jakob Schubert on 21 December 2023 6th: Sean Bailey before 9 December 2024 7th : Sung Su Lee on 3 April 2026https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/sung-su-lee-ticks-alphane-makoto-yamauchi-sends-burden-of-dreams.html
See also List of grade milestones in rock climbing
References