World's Tallest Climbing Wall

12 years ago

Tags: doomed

26 Responses:

1. fightingwords says:

   12 years ago at 2:46 pm

   Horrifying.

   • rivetpepsquad says:

     12 years ago at 2:58 pm

     *EEK*!

   • whittles says:

     12 years ago at 11:39 am

     is it wrong that I kinda wanna go?

2. skreidle says:

   12 years ago at 2:48 pm

   That is a phenomenal climbing wall.

   Website's here: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.bjoeks.nl/

   37m/121ft tall, incidentally.

   • autopope says:

     12 years ago at 2:59 am

     Oh, it's in Holland.

     That explains everything.

     • pozorvlak says:

       12 years ago at 6:32 am

       We have a climbing wall almost as tall just outside Edinburgh - though it's not free-standing, but built up inside an abandoned quarry.

3. vomitrocity says:

   12 years ago at 3:03 pm

   That is the scariest goddamn thing I have ever seen and I appreciate the chosen tag. XD

4. _candide_ says:

   12 years ago at 3:20 pm

   Ummm … why.

   At that height? Why not just take the time to drive to a nice cliffside?

   Oh! *facepalms* This wall is in the Netherlands. Ok. Flatter-than-flat. Need artificial cliff. I got it now.

5. drhoz says:

   12 years ago at 3:51 pm

   D:

6. palmir says:

   12 years ago at 4:04 pm

   ... why do they have a moat around the complex?

   • morbid_curious says:

     12 years ago at 5:02 pm

     An extra level of zombie-proofing. perhaps. Or for when the Dutch villagers attack the Thing That Goes Up with torches and pitchforks.

   • srmm says:

     12 years ago at 3:44 am

     1) cheaper and easier to maintain than a fence
     2) to keep the grass dry

7. morbid_curious says:

   12 years ago at 5:00 pm

   I think my first thought was "Ffffuuuuuu..."

   (reCaptcha: Marshal demagua. Sounds South American, whoever he is.)

8. chaos_israel says:

   12 years ago at 7:08 pm

   Oh. Hell. No.

   Also is that idiot free-climbing it?

   • davidglasser says:

     12 years ago at 7:14 pm

     He's lead climbing.

     Seems a little odd to have routes on the opposite side of that structure.

     • ladykalessia says:

       12 years ago at 10:33 pm

       Too bendy to put an elevator in, and some poor service guy has to service the aircraft beacon at the top, which means climbing it with a 50lb bucket strapped to his ass.

       • davidglasser says:

         12 years ago at 2:35 am

         Uh, stairs?

     • lafinjack says:

       12 years ago at 2:13 am

       Not everyone is a mega-expert climber. You gotta start somewhere.

     • pozorvlak says:

       12 years ago at 6:29 am

       Makes perfect sense to me - climbing on less-than vertical routes ("slabs", in climbing jargon) is lots of fun. It can also be arbitrarily difficult, though the challenge is more about balance and making use of tiny holds than about strength.

   • pozorvlak says:

     12 years ago at 6:37 am

     Yes he is, but "free climbing" probably doesn't mean what you think it means :-) He's roped up, which I think was what you were asking. See the clips hanging down? As he passes each one, he clips the rope into it; then if he falls, the rope stops him a little bit past the most recent clip.

     • davidglasser says:

       12 years ago at 9:29 am

       Oh right, I was thinking of free soloing.

9. remembering says:

   12 years ago at 7:34 pm

   It's a huge human plinko wall!

10. babystrangeloop says:

    12 years ago at 7:37 pm

    Previous Eyesores of the Month
    

11. amsterdanin says:

    12 years ago at 5:48 am

    looks good - gonna visit it next week

    wondering of the wind - in Holland it strong enough to send you straight în bloody hell ))

12. asan102 says:

    12 years ago at 11:31 am

    There must be one hell of an anchor buried underneath that thing.

13. Peter Huesken says:

    12 years ago at 5:15 pm

    Check in Google Maps Street View...
    http://goo.gl/maps/fdEh