Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2018

The Emerging Indoor Climber (Room Demo Experience Education Tent)

We continue to see an explosion in the climbing gym culture in the US, many climbers are being introduced to climbing indoors. In fact, many of those climbers will never climb outside. A new population of urban climbers - indoor climbers - are hitting the scene. How can the US climbing industry support these climbers and their ambition to stay inside when so much of what we focus on is getting outside?