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Limited functionality for alpine grades #4169

Open ryansiacci opened 1 year ago

ryansiacci commented 1 year ago

TheCrag includes "alpine" as a style type, however it is difficult if not impossible to input accurate grades for various regions.

According to the table on https://www.thecrag.com/en/article/grades, there are a mix of unrelated grades lumped together. This covers some relevant grades (alpine ice, water ice, mixed etc) but not other important grading systems such as the French Adjectival, UIAA, New Zealand alpine grade and Alaskan grades.

There appears to be some French Adjectival grades, but these are related to via ferrata and not equivalent to alpine climbing. There is also a UIAA rock grade, but again, this does not translate directly.

I suggest addition of these grading systems, along with a stand-alone table to compare each of the main grades. A great resource for this comparison can be found here: https://firstlightguiding.com/international-grade-comparison/