[slab_happy]

Great, does that mean more people at the wall dressed like whacky aunts?

https://people.com/style/harry-styles-best-fashion-moments/

I mean, if you want climbing to retain some authentic outsider weirdness, surely it's far better to have people at the wall dressed like wacky aunts than wearing MothTech(tm)?

On a side note, kind of hilarious how much of that article is: "He wore a suit that was glittery or in a colour."  Ah yes, unprecedented. Male pop/rock stars have definitely never done that before.

[SA Chris]

I'm all for authentic outsider weirdness, but not faux weirdness you are adopting just because your favourite star does it.

[slab_happy]

Fair!

[Fiend]

"The fitness trend that is now the height of cool" 

[petejh]

Meet your new friends Matt. 

[andy moles]

I had to look up the Lady Gaga reference. As far as I can tell her endorsement of climbing extends to posting a picture of herself doing via ferrata once.

[Fiend]

Meet your new friends Matt. 

UGH. It could be worse. I could have actively chosen to hunt out the Lady Gaga - "climbing" connection 

[spidermonkey09]

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67380226

Anyone like to hazard a guess at the grade of the Empire State Building as a top rope route?

[mark20]

Knotted rope though .. back around 

[Falling Down]

 

[Fatboyslimfast2]

Has Sharma/Mamoa reality climbing bollox  'climb' thing been mentioned on here, just saw an episode....WTaF......

[SA Chris]

Discussed elsewhere. I avoided thinking the buts and whys and went along with it. The kids loved it.

[sxrxg]

Heineken owned beer company using climbing to fulfill corporate and social responsibility requirements...

https://beavertownbrewery.co.uk/pages/crush-loneliness-climbing

Seems to be for a good cause at least.

[steveri]

Lordy, look at this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1RZzREtgFX/
https://www.commonclimber.com/copen-hill-climbing-wall.html

"The Amager Bakke ("Bakke" = "Hill" and Amager is a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark) climbing wall was conceived and constructed rather differently than most climbing walls. Leading Danish architect, Bjarke Ingels (who has big projects all over the world and won the competition to build a large garbage incinerator for Copenhagen) wanted to include the citizens as users of the building. It needed to include hiking trails, a skislope on the roof, and a climbing wall up the outside of the building."

[slab_happy]

Although amazingly designed, there is one significant construction flaw - falling objects from climbers could hit passing skiers and hill-walkers. They installed a five-meter-wide net that was fixed from the climbers' starting platform positioned five-meters above the ground, but it didn't take long to discover that the net installation was not large enough when climbers are doing multipitch routes.

Dropped quickdraws, broken holds, and other items often fell 5-8 meters beyond the net. A larger net was calculated to cost $200,000 (US), which was far outside of the budget. Thus, a decision was made that multipitch climbing had to occur before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m., when other users were off of the hill.

That is an amazing design failure that comes from loving the concept of a climbing wall up the outside of the building and not thinking at all about what it actually involves.

[Fultonius]

Heineken owned beer company using climbing to fulfill corporate and social responsibility requirements...

https://beavertownbrewery.co.uk/pages/crush-loneliness-climbing

Seems to be for a good cause at least.

Kind of ironic, when Heineken (or a Heineken owned brewery) were trying to kick Het Lab out of their premises to build a new brewery last year...

(well, the landlord was. Heineken were wanting to move in)

[seankenny]

Discussed elsewhere. I avoided thinking the buts and whys and went along with it. The kids loved it.

Which streaming platform is this on?

[Fiend]

Lordy, look at this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1RZzREtgFX/
https://www.commonclimber.com/copen-hill-climbing-wall.html

"The Amager Bakke ("Bakke" = "Hill" and Amager is a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark) climbing wall was conceived and constructed rather differently than most climbing walls. Leading Danish architect, Bjarke Ingels (who has big projects all over the world and won the competition to build a large garbage incinerator for Copenhagen) wanted to include the citizens as users of the building. It needed to include hiking trails, a skislope on the roof, and a climbing wall up the outside of the building."

I would actually go to Denmark, coax andy popp out of retirement, and do that!!

[Coops_13]

Discussed elsewhere. I avoided thinking the buts and whys and went along with it. The kids loved it.

Which streaming platform is this on?

HBO so Max I think is the platform name

[SA Chris]

Not sure where to put this, but £650 fingerboard?

https://climbro.com/shop/

[Fiend]

Not sure where to put this

In the log burner.

[jwi]

Not sure where to put this, but £650 fingerboard?

https://climbro.com/shop/

What the actual ...? Renting? For people who do not know how multiplication work, I assume.

[SA Chris]

Not sure where to put this

In the log burner.

Burning Rosewood would be cheaper.

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[shark]

Just for boulderers? That’s niche