Six members of the Castle setting team embarked on a 10 day road trip around the UK to climb at the best, biggest, newest and some of most respected indoor climbing facilities in the country. Not only this but working at the 2 biggest comps in the British calendar, climbing on outdoor artificial boulders, learning how our new holds were made and crimping it out at 2 top quality sport climbing crags.

WHY? We take wanted to find out exactly what these new walls have, how the biggest comps were run, meet and network with the other wall mangers, and see how we can put all this knowledge back into making the Castle one of the best climbing facilities in the world! This is what goes off on a 1,300 mile climbing walls tour.

Big THANK YOU to all the walls that welcomed us, kept us fuelled with teas and coffees and made our fingers hurt!

The walls we visited were:

• Craggy Island 2
• The Climbing Academy
• The Climbing Works
• Awesome walls Stockport
• The Leeds Wall
• The Depot
• City Bloc
• Newcastle Climbing Centre
• Climb Newcastle
• Ratho

Also Thank You to Paul Twomey from The Climbing Academy for providing the tunes for the video.