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Do you want to help us with news, let us know......Bouldering park to open in Malmö, Sweden
Malmö in south of Sweden will soon get the first Boulder park in Scandinavia. The boulder block´s will be built this week in Stapelbäddsparken in central Malmö. The blocks will be 4 meters high and will have problems in all grades. Malmö city have put in 2 million kronor in this project.
Jonas Persson at the Malmö Climbing club says that in the future there will be competitions with international climbers at this boulder park. The whole park will open up late september.
The original article in METRO is in Swedish. Click here to read it (opens in a new window).
Zillertal at risk
The famous Zillertal climbing area in Austria is going to be destroyed. The Zillertal area in Austria were they just had PETZL Rocktrip is at risk! The area is now under way to be transformed into a granit quarry. This will destroy this beautiful area for ever. Protest against it!
Read more at http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/austrias_zillertal_at_risk/
More info and petition at: http://www.stonemonkeys.com/protest.html