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
New news items added on 13/09/09.
New kids routes for South Lakes added on 13/09/09.
New articles added on 13/09/09.
The Rockboots page was updated on 29/05/09.
The Sit/Chest harness page has also been partially updated on 30/05/09
Notice the new images? Thanks to our fantastic artist Abi for creating them especially for Kidsclimbing! Look at more of Abi's excellent work at Greencreepers.co.uk.
We can now offer very simple translations of the entire site.
Sorry that the Guestbook hasn't been working recently - it's now fixed, so why not leave a message?
We now have a 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.
I came across this useful link recently to the UK Children's Directory - it's a comprehensive web directory of children's activities and services throughout the UK.
Any parents⁄carers who have second hand⁄outgrown climbing boots please contact me and I'll post it up on the noticeboard.
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.
