Fred Rouhling (English Wikipedia)

Larrssen, Jens (4 March 2021). "Akira 9a (b) by Seb Bouin". 8a.nu. Retrieved 23 June 2022. As other hard routes from that time put up by Fred, such as Hugh 9a, have been confirmed, he had a hard time understanding the downgrading. "I don't know but limestone cracks. Perhaps the holds became bigger. When Yuji Hirayama and Dai Koyamada came to try. They thought there was a very big difference between Akira and Hugh..
Larrsen, Jens (7 March 2021). "9b to 9a logic for Akira (or even 8c+)". 8a.nu. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
"Fred Rouhling Mandallaz Drive 9a by Baptiste Dherbilly". 8a.nu. 19 September 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
Larrsen, Jens (24 February 2009). "Is Fred Rouhling the best ever FA climber in the world?". 8a.nu. Retrieved 22 June 2022. Critics should check out fredrouhling.com where most of his ascents are shown through videos. In fact, just by adding his First Ascents Fred would have been #3 in the 8a.nu All Time High Combined ranking.
Larrsen, Jens (19 July 2001). "P Bollinger does Kami, 8c+". 8a.nu. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
Larrsen, Jens (6 December 2008). "Vandalism of French boulders, encore..." 8a.nu. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

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"Climb the Hill Advocate Highlight: Shelma Jun and Pete Ward". American Alpine Club. 5 September 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2022. Pete Ward is a Board Member of the American Alpine Club (AAC) as well as a member of the AAC Policy Committee.

"Interview de Fred Rouhling (21-10-2008)". CamptoCamp. 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2022.

Ward, Pete (2004). "The Other Side of Fred Rouhling". Climbing. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
Thornburg, Jim (22 April 2010). "Buoux: Revisiting France's Crag of the 1980s". Climbing. Retrieved 23 June 2022. In 1986, Antoine applied his "artistic" talents to his masterpiece La Rose et la Vampire (8b/5.13d), purposely chiseling the route to require an elegant, twisting, cross-body reach.
Corrigan, Keven (23 November 2020). "Fred Rouhling's Akira Sees First Repeats Since 1995 FA, Receives Downgrade". Climbing. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
Pegg, Dave (20 August 2003). "E Josune Va". Climbing. Retrieved 22 June 2022.

"Rouhling related news". Climbing.de. 24 November 2000. Retrieved 22 June 2022. Not content with this the also managed to repeat Archipel, 8c+. This is the first of Rouhling harder routes to be repeated! They both confirmed the grade. Later they also worked Hugh and l´autre côté de la ciel, both 9a, without success. They agreed they are probably 9a.
"8B+/C by Rouhling". Climbing.de. 2 December 2006. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

Gerland, Bastien (29 April 2015). "[Translated] I'll go climb with you: Eaux Claires & Gémozac". Grimper. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
Jourdain, Philippe (20 October 2020). "[Translated] The history of climbing: the evolution of ratings". Grimper. Retrieved 22 June 2022. 1993 : First French 9a. Fred Rouhling - "Hugh" (Eaux-Claires)
Chenevier, Jean-Marc (17 September 2021). "[Translated] For the record, Baptiste Dherbilly repeats Mandalaz Drive, another legendary route by Fred Rouhling". Grimper. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
Editorial Staff (3 October 2022). "[Translated] Fred Rouhling, an outfitter turned sculptor". Grimper. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
Chenevier, Jean-Marc (2 November 2009). "[Translated] Fred Rouhling's Footprints". Grimper. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
Chenevier, Jean-Marc (6 October 2021). "[Translated] Baptiste Dherbilly repeats Footprints, the route proposed at 9a/b by Fred Rouhling!". Grimper. Retrieved 22 June 2022. [Translated] But according to him, Empreintes , instead of flirting with 9b, would be a notch less hard than the other two and would rather revolve around 8c+.

Oviglia, Maurizio (23 December 2012). "The evolution of free climbing". PlanetMountain. Retrieved 22 June 2022.

"Sébastien Bouin repeats Fred Rouhling's Hugh at Eaux Claires, France's first 9a". PlanetMountain. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
"Sébastien Bouin makes first repeat of Fred Rouhling's De l'autre Côté du Ciel". PlanetMountain. 28 November 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
"Fred Rouhling's Akira finally repeated after 25 years by Sébastien Bouin, Lucien Martinez". PlanetMountain. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
"Bain de sang, Jolly Lamberti's second 9a". PlanetMountain. 2 April 2004. Retrieved 23 June 2022. FA: Fred Nicole 1993. Repeats: François Nicole, Fred Rouhling, Cederic Bersandi, David Hohl, Josune Bereciartu, Iker Pou.
"Fred Rouhling, Salamandre and climbing extreme". PlanetMountain. 27 December 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
"Usobiaga 8b+ on-sight, Rouhling 9a F.A." PlanetMountain. 11 November 2004. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
"Alessandro Lamberti repeats Hugh at Eaux Claires". PlanetMountain. 10 November 2001. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
"Watch Seb Bouin uncut on Fred Rouhling's Hugh at Eaux Claires". PlanetMountain. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2022. The video of Sébastien Bouin at Eaux Claires repeating Hugh the first 9a in France put up by Fred Rouhling in 1993.
"Zero gravity days". PlanetMountain. 26 October 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
"Josune Bereziartu unstoppable!". PlanetMountain. 23 October 2002. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

Pohl, Bjorn (4 January 2010). "Fred Rouhling back from New Zealand". UKClimbing. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
Arthur, Charles (26 November 2001). "Fred Rouhling does Bain de Sang (F9a)". UKClimbing. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
Pohl, Bjorn (5 December 2008). "There's something rotten in the state of France..." UKClimbing. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

Hugh would become the fourth 9a in the world, the first was Wolfgang Gullich's Action Directe (1991), the second was Alexander Huber's Om (1992), and the third was Fred Nicole's Bain de Sang [fr] (1993).^[5]
French climber Jean-Baptiste Tribout visited Akira but failed to climb it,^[7]^[9] and accused Rouhling of lying about ever completing the route in his book.^[4] Spanish climber Dani Andrada [fr] also visited Akira and failed to climb it (although he felt it was circa 9a),^[7]^[11]^[9] and Alexander Huber said that Andrada had told him Rouhling had subsequently changed the route to make it harder.^[1]^[11] Japanese climbers Yuji Hirayama and Dai Koyamada, on a 2000 tour of Rouhling's local crags,^[14] also failed to climb Akira, and felt it was much harder than Hugh,^[15] which Koyamada climbed in 2002.^[6]