which partially broke in 2010, potentially rendering the lower section even more difficult (it has been compared to the notable bouldering problem, Necessarily Evil). Sustained 5.13 climbing after the initial bouldering problem leads to the main rest, a large right-facing flake. After this pause, a series of "super-resistant two and three-finger pocket moves", with cross-throughs, underclings, and high-steps lead to Arnaud Petit's old anchor (now since removed), which is just under halfway. To the anchor, the route is considered , although some have suggested an upgrade to due to the initial bottom boulder breaking. There is a small rest at the old anchor, then sustained resistance climbing leads to a slightly better rest just below the finishing crux. This final crux is 12 moves, described as "a bunch of foot movement, and some very fickle pockets and crimps". Its difficulty is amplified by the amount of hard climbing undertaken to reach it. Above this crux is a small rest, and 5.11 climbing for 50-feet leads to the final anchor at around the circa 35-meter mark". Legacy Realization became the world's first route to carry a consensus grade, and Climbing chronicled that it delivered a "technical revolution" in rock climbing. However in 2008, Adam Ondra completed the second ascent of Alexander Huber's 1996 route at Austria's Schleierfall, and felt it was ; Huber freed it in 1996 and graded it as , but Ondra felt that Open Air was harder than "benchmark" climbs such as Weiss Rose, Action Directe, and even La Rambla, which are or . Climbing author Andrew Bisharat noted in a 2016 essay on regrading, that "The other interesting point about Open Air that’s worth mentioning is that the route reportedly contains some rather flaky holds that have broken off over the years. So was the Open Air that Ondra climbed the exact same route that Alex Huber climbed? Maybe, but probably not." The quality and sustained difficulty of the route means it is still considered an important rite-of-passage for the world's best rock climbers, whose repeat ascents of the "legendary" route, are often covered by the climbing media. Outside magazine called it "the benchmark for the grade", and it has become one of the most attempted and repeated routes at the grade at . In 2014, National Geographic called it, "one of the most famous sport-climbing routes in the world". PlanetMountain included Realization on its list of