Jumbo Love
Jumbo Love is a very long 76-metre (249 ft) sport climbing route, on remote limestone cliffs on Clark Mountain in the Mojave Desert. Bolted by American climber Randy Leavitt in the 1990s, he invited Chris Sharma to attempt it in 2007. When Sharma completed the first free ascent on September 11, 2008, the route became the first-ever rock climb in history to have a confirmed grade of 9b (5.15b), and it remains an important route in the history of rock climbing.
| Jumbo Love | |
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| Suprême Jumbo Love (Jumbo Love Direct) | |
3rd Tier crag on Clark Mountain. Jumbo Love is on the lighter-coloured overhanging walls, centre-right. | |
Approximate location of Jumbo Love | |
| Location | Clark Mountain, Mojave Desert, California, US |
| Coordinates | 35.5275°N 115.609°W |
| Climbing Area | 3rd Tier (Clark Mountain) |
| Route Type | Sport climbing |
| Vertical Gain | 76-metre (249 ft) |
| Pitches | 1 |
| Grade | |
| Bolted by | Randy Leavitt (1990s) |
| First free ascent |
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The route has been repeated, and its grade confirmed, by a number of subsequent climbers, including French climber Seb Bouin, who made the fourth ascent on October 25, 2022. Bouin followed up his ascent by adding a direct start to the route on November 1, 2022, to create a route called Suprême Jumbo Love, which at 9b+ (5.15c) became North America's hardest climbing route and only the sixth 9b+ sport climbing route in history.