WEIRD & WONDERFUL
FACTS ABOUT ROCK CLIMBING
Rock Climbing actually makes you smarter. Rock climbing uses your
problem-solving skills, the more you rock climb, and the more you
use these skills, results in making you smarter.
Paintings dated around 200 BC show Chinese
men rock climbing, meaning rock climbing has
been documented for thousands of years.
The first artificial climbing
wall was built in 1939.
Rock climbing can burn
anywhere from 500 to
900 calories per hour
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One third of children who attended hospital Emergency Departments in Australia last
year had injuries which were related to monkey bars or other climbing equipment.
The highest mountain climbed on stilts was
Mount Baden-Powell at an elevation of
2,864.8 metres by Ashrita Furman in 2011.
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Goats are better rock climbers than humans they have evolutionary modified toenails that
allow flexible grip, and soft inner pads (like
climbing shoes for humans).