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World Record #151 – the tallest climbing wall in the world

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Normally when people talk about “climbing walls”, they are talking about fairly modest structures. This one from the Independence of the Seas cruise ship is 43 feet tall:

Here is an indoor wall, and toward the end of the video there is a shot of the tower that goes 35 meters high:

The previous wall can be found at EICA Ratho. Photos of EICA Ratho’s walls are available here.

But the tallest wall in the world right now is called Excalibur, at 37 meters (121 feet) in the Netherlands, as seen here:

World’s highest climbing wall

And here:

Excalibur Climbing Wall is the biggest of its type

The company is called Klimcentrum Bjoeks. The construction photos are pretty interesting.

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