Andy Turner has recently made the first ground up ascent of the Tempest at SCnL. The Tempest was initally given the more appropriate M grade due to the nature of the ascent on pre placed wires, but now Andy has made a more natural and true ascent, he thinks the grade should sit around IX,9 0r X,9 at a push. As andy says on his blog, with any new routes and grades, the grade will settle down 'if' and when it recieves more ascents.
Read more here http://andyturnerclimbing.blogspot.com/
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