VI: A multi-day climbing adventure for (nearly) all. Peter Croft saves this grade for the full Palisade Traverse, a massive route which includes six 14,000-foot summits and miles of technical climbing. He states, This is the only route in this book that I haven't completed in a single push, although I've done all the crux sections at various times. Although most grade VIs are alpine climbs, The Nose on El Capitan is an example of a technical grade VI route. It has 2,900 feet (880m) of either very hard technical climbing or easier aid climbing and takes most climbers 2-7 days, although a few climbers have freed it in a day, and more have aided it in a day.