Font9a is a bouldering grade not yet established in Fontainebleau, France. The 9th Cotation, as it were, is analagous and equatable to the Vermin grade, V15. Today, there are less than 10 known boulder problems in the world rated V14. The first V14 grade was established at Hueco Tanks, Texas USA on Slashface by Fredric Nicole of Switzerland in 1997. Chris Sharma of Santa Cruz, California repeated the problem in 1998 and called the V14 grade into question, saying Slashface wasn't the hardest thing he'd ever done. Very few climbers are climbing at this level:
Fredric Nicole: Swiss;
Chris Sharma: USA;
Fred Rhuling: France;
Mark LeMenstral: France;
Klem Loskot: Austria;
Ben Moon: England;
and many other strong men and women who haven't been portrayed in the American Spray Magazines.