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For anyone else more interested in the climbing wall, direct link to their climbing page: https://www.copenhill.dk/en/activities/climbing

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That link mentions multipitch climbing, which is surprising but cool. Every artifical wall I've seen outside of a climbing gym was strictly for single pitch top roping. I'm not sure how that will actually work in practice though. Are they really going to open the wall up to lead climbing? Seems like a liability and logistical nightmare. The article certainly implies that's the case, but is worded confusingly enough that I'm skeptical.

Well, they reference some kind of qualification and there's plenty of climbing gyms around the world which allow for multipitch climbing. Often you have to bring your own rope though.

On the other hand, I can think of a multitude of ways of providing multipitch top roping in such an environment. Joining two ends of a rope and running it through both anchors would be fine. You could even use a series of autobelay devices with retrieval tag lines to keep things relatively simple (though arm destroying).

Lead climbing is a common accommodation in most climbing gyms. You have to take a certification test, but it's very common.

> The routes are designed and evaluated to be of a difficult category, where climbing becomes more difficult the higher you get.

> only experienced and trained climbers are allowed to climb to the top.

I wonder if they really mean allowed, or actually mean capable

The former, the article briefly mentions only certified climbers may climb some sections

Wow, 85m, that'd be fun to climb.

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