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Climbers‘ City Innsbruck: climb with the world’s best
Climbing surrounds you in the home town of Climbing World Champion Jakob
Schubert. Whether rock climbing outdoors in stunning natural surroundings, scaling
the wall at the brand-new climbing centre Kletterzentrum Innsbruck or watching
top stars at the World Championship showdown – Innsbruck, its Holiday Villages
and the Mieming Plateau tick all of the boxes for passionate climbing fans.
On hearing Climbers’ City Innsbruck, some people immediately picture one of the
largest stages in the international climbing scene. The capital of Tyrol has been a
regular venue and a true crowd puller for the IFSC Boulder World Cup series for many
years. The city also hosted the European Bouldering Championships in 2010 and
2015, and the best climbers in the world will battle it out again for the title of World
Champion in Innsbruck in 2018. The junior climbers have less of a wait: they will
compete for gold, silver and bronze at the Youth Climbing World Championships in
September 2017.
While some people associate Innsbruck with a huge number professional climbers,
others place great value on the wide variety of open-air climbing facilities available.
More than 600 sport climbing routes, six via ferrata, 17 outdoor sport climbing areas,
two family climbing areas and eight ice climbing routes are listed on www.climbersparadise.com for Innsbruck, its Holiday Villages and the Mieming Plateau & Tirol
Mitte region.
Professional climber Jakob Schubert was born in Innsbruck and believes that these
climbing highlights are what makes the city the ideal home for climbers. The double
Lead Climbing World Champion and two-time Overall Climbing World Cup Champion
also likes climbing outdoors. He enjoys the great training facilities in the area along
with other stars of the climbing scene, such as bouldering queen Anna Stöhr from the
village of Rum, Kilian Fischhuber, who has chosen Innsbruck as his home, and Czech
all-rounder and avowed fan of the city Adam Ondra. From May 2017, they will also
be able to take advantage of the new Kletterzentrum Innsbruck (Innsbruck Climbing
Centre) with a total climbing area of around 5,500 m². “The innovative new climbing
facility ticks all the boxes, be it indoors or outdoors, rope climbing or bouldering, for
competitions or the general public”, says Anna Stöhr, two-fold world champion in
bouldering. Since autumn 2016, the town of Telfs has also been home to the
Bergstation Climbing Centre, which places a strong focus on bouldering.
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Anyone who prefers to get to grips with natural rock while breathing in fresh mountain air – and who has alpine experience, athletic endurance and, last but not least, a
head for heights – will love the outdoor climbing areas and via ferrata around Innsbruck. Popular climbing destinations in the local region include Kühtai and the
Sellraintal Valley, which complement the year round climbing fun at indoor climbing
centres with exciting ice climbing routes for icy winter enjoyment.
The Martinswand rock face near the town of Zirl is south-facing and can therefore be
enjoyed throughout the year. The climbing area with its distinctive limestone rock is
much more than just an impressive sight from Innsbruck – it offers more than 150
extremely varied routes with difficulty levels ranging from 3 to 9, as well as
spectacular views over the Inn Valley. Jakob Schubert recommends climbing fans
head to the most well-known climbing area of the Martinswand, the Dschungelbuch
(Jungle Book): “An absolute classic and still on my bucket list is definitely
Dschungelfieber (Jungle Fever) created by Reini Scherer. It is a technically challenging
8c/8c+ route. Anyone who, like me, loves climbing adventures full of difficult
boulders will absolutely love it. And to top it off, there are truly stunning views!”
The climbing areas in Stams and Locherboden are more focused on beginners and
families. They feature top-quality safety and child-friendly climbing fun in great
locations. Multi-pitch routes can be found at the Ehnbachklamm Gorge near Zirl, as
well as on the Hohe Munde and Karkopf mountains near Telfs. The Hafelekar summit
station of the Nordkettenbahnen lifts marks the start of a classic highlight of the
Innsbruck mountain experience: the “Innsbrucker Klettersteig”. This via ferrata
stretches 3,300 metres across seven peaks until it reaches the Frau Hitt ridge, offering contrasting panoramic views of the wild Karwendel mountain range and the
Climbing Capital of the Alps along the way. www.climbers-city.com
Precise area descriptions, routes, maps and much more are available from 2017 in
the “Kletterführer” climbing guide by AM-Berg Verlag.
Innsbruck Tourismus
Burggraben 3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Tel: +43 512 5985 0
[email protected]
www.innsbruck.info, www.climbers-city.com
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For further inquiries:
Peter Unsinn
International Marketing Manager
+43 512 5985-148
[email protected]
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