Climbing the world's largest artificial climbing wall

540' of plastic pulling weirdness that only Switzerland could pull off. I did a full write up on it, because it was just that weird. If you are ever in the area of central Switzerland, its worth the effort.

After all, who doesn't want to climb a dam :)

Crank the Rainbow - Climbing Diga di Luzzone

Cheers,
ilana

That is pretty freakin' cool

I wonder, if you only climb a certain color of those holds, are there intended routes that range in difficulty above 5.10b?

Also, where are the top anchors? Was that guy just standing to belay?

And also, why can't we have more stuff like that here in the states?

Amazing!

burly.

Jon Zucco wrote: if you only climb a certain color of those holds, are there intended routes that range in difficulty above 5.10b?

I don't think so, but why not. FA? Lol

John Zucco wrote:where are the top anchors? Was that guy just standing to belay?

The top anchors where part of the Dam's railing, so you top out over the railing, anchor in and bring up your second. It was actually interesting that they set up the crux near the top of the fifth pitch in such a way that it could not be aided if you were out of your league.

Jon Zucco wrote:why can't we have more stuff like that here in the states?

One word - LIABILITY. Switzerland is brilliant in the sense that they believe if you got yourself into it, you get yourself out of it. Everyone self insures here for things like snowboarding, etc.