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title: "What do the different levels of climbing difficulty mean?"
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description: "The levels of difficulty in climbing are divided into categories: from K1 (easy) up to K6 (very difficult). You can find the precise definitions of all categories on the scale of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC)to the SAC scale"
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What do the different levels of climbing difficulty mean?
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The levels of difficulty in climbing are divided into categories: from K1 (easy) up to K6 (very difficult). You can find the precise definitions of all categories on the scale of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC)