#climbing

Rock-climbing fall maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the safety numbers behind a lead fall, from the harshness of the catch to whether you hit the deck. The fall-factor endpoint gives the fall factor, distance fallen ÷ rope paid out, from 0 to a maximum of 2: it, not the absolute distance, decides how hard the catch is, so 4 metres on 2 metres of rope is a brutal factor-2 onto the anchor while the same fall on 10 metres of rope is a mild 0.4. The impact-force endpoint gives the peak force the rope transmits from the spring model F = mg + √((mg)² + 2·mg·k·f), where k is the rope modulus (~20 kN for a dynamic single rope) and f the fall factor — so an 80 kg climber on a factor-1 fall feels about 6.4 kN, and the top runner sees roughly 1.66× that from the pulley effect. The ground-fall endpoint adds it up: total drop = twice the height above the last piece, plus slack, plus the rope's stretch, and tells you whether that clears the ground or a ledge. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for climbing apps, gym and guiding tools, route-planning and education sites, and gear calculators. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 compute endpoints. Educational estimates — not a substitute for instruction and judgement.

api.oanor.com/climbing-api

Rock-climbing grade conversion as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the cross-system grade translations a climber, gym or guidebook app needs when the same route reads differently in every country. The route endpoint takes a roped-climbing grade in any major system — the American Yosemite Decimal System (5.5 to 5.15d), French sport grades (4b to 9c+), the UIAA scale used across Central Europe (IV to XIII-) or the Australian/New Zealand Ewbank numbers (12 to 40) — and returns the equivalents in all of them, so a 5.11a is a French 6c, a UIAA VII+ and an Ewbank 22. The boulder endpoint converts between the American V-scale (VB and V0 to V17) and the French Fontainebleau scale (3 to 9A), so a V5 is Font 6C and a problem graded 7A is about V6. You can pass a grade in any supported system and it finds the row and gives the rest — handy for syncing a tick list across regions or showing a climber a grade they recognise. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for climbing, bouldering, gym, guidebook and outdoor-sports app developers, tick-list and route-database tools, and training-log software. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Chart equivalents — grades are inherently approximate across systems. Live, nothing stored. 2 conversion endpoints.

api.oanor.com/climbgrade-api