Denmark: Multi-Pitch Climbing Wall to Install at CopenHill Power Plant
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On one side of the building walls of CopenHill – a power plant in Denmark‘s capital Copenhagen, which is also used as an urban mountain sports facility – an 80-metres-high and 10-metres-wide multi-pitch climbing wall is currently under construction, supplied by Walltopia. The highest climbing wall in the world (according to the manufacturer) will be seperated into four sections of around 20 metres height, which will be equipped with five different climbing routes each. Walltopia uses plexiglas and fibreglas material to not obstruct natural light coming into the building and to create a weather proof wall. The around 24 tons of synthetic material sits ontop of a 50 ton steel construction.
“The wall design was a challenge as we were striving to find the right balance between appearance and functionality – the goal was to create appearance matching the impressive building architecture while designing wall topology that offers supreme climbing experience,” explains Vasil Sharlanov, Head of Climbing Sales at Walltopia. “We had to both follow the unique pattern of the building with ‘bricks‘ and ‘openings‘ and also introduce specific climbing features, roofs, arretes, cracks and other fun to climb elements,“ he adds.
A multi-pitch certification is required to climb the wall. An artificial ski slope (Neveplast) was already opened on the roof of CopenHill this past October (cf. EAP news of 11. Oct 2019). (eap)
