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Definition
What is a Climbing Wall


Pre-History
Bildering And Bilderers
Geoffrey Windthrop Young
Arthur Pinner


First True Climbing Structure
Schurman Rock
Clark Schurman
Camp Long

Post War Development

1960's Boom

Britians First Climbing Walls

1970's Development

Bendcrete Climbing Walls

University Walls
Brunel University Spire Rock
University of Washington


The 1980's Wall Development
The invention of the bolt on Hold

First Commercial Climbing Centre
Vertical In Seattle
NLRC in London

The 1990's Beginning of the Golden Age

21st Century Climbing Walls and the Future
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