Kid-Friendly...
A growing list of links to a variety of Kid-Friendly and generally useful climbing resources. Choose from:
National organisations/sites
The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) Youth Membership
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCS) Youth section
Also the MCS Real Rock section for younger kids. (Thanks to Davy Virdee for both)
Home-made climbing walls
For the slightly more enthusiastic DIY expert with a few cubic meters available - Building a home bouldering wall (1.08Mb .pdf file from Metolius climbing). Also take a look at this link which has lots more links lower down the page.
Child-friendly climbing holds from Indoor-rock.co.uk
Novelty climbing holds from Beacon Climbing.
Synrock holds
An excellent site that sells holds, but better, shows you lots of info on how to build them, plus lots more!
Other Links
Cool painted climbing walls by
Gail Astbury
Atlantic Ocean Wall
Climbing Glossary
From those wonderful people at UK Climbing.com
Noticeboard
Check out the Fox Cubs kids climbing gear page.
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American climbing t shirt site with some kids sizes. (Warning - some are rude!).
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Get the Mark the Mountain Guide kids book for 25% off from this site!
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Kids climbing shoes for sale (posted 24/09/08):
Boreal | Size 4 |
Unisex
Colour: Blue/Red |
Laces
Cost: £20
Quechua | Size 2½ | Unisex
Colour Blue | Laces
Cost: £5
Contact me for more details
Any other parents⁄carers who have second hand⁄outgrown climbing shoes or boots please contact me and I'll post it up on the noticeboard.
Great new kid-centric adventure gear shop online!
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DMM comes up with new childrens harnesses -
The Tom Cat sit harness and the Tom Kitten full body harness.
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Parents Guide to climbing
A great little booklet from the BMC packed with useful info for parents with children who climb. Latest version!
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Young climber with Down's Syndrome claims first Munro
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Did you know you can now have very simple translations of the entire site?
Why not put your comments in our Guestbook?
Visit the Climbing Fun page with a quiz and wordsearch!
Thanks to the many climbers who have helped to swell the links in the Climbing Stuff section! I've now split it up into separate pages under a new Kid-Friendly... header.
If you've got any comments or questions about this site or you can write a review of any of the gear, please contact me.
