Alphane | |
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Location | Chironico, Switzerland |
Route type | Bouldering |
Rating | 9A (V17) |
First ascent | Shawn Raboutou, 6th April 2022 |
Alphane is a bouldering route in Chironico, Switzerland. It is graded at 9A (V17), making it one of the hardest boulders in the world.
Alphane sits to the left of Dave Graham's Alphane Moon V11 (8A), 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.