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Climbing with Kids: Tips for a Successful Visit to The Climbing Hangar
Climbing with kids can be a fun and rewarding experience for both parents and children. To help make your visit to The Hangar with your kids a success, we've put together some tips and tricks to help you make the most of your climbing experience.
Free Women's Routesetting Workshop
We're excited to announce that we'll be hosting a free women's routesetting workshop at The Climbing Hangar on Tuesday 25 April 2023. The workshop will take place at both our TCH Matchworks and TCH Exeter centres and is open to women that are interested in learning more about routesetting and getting involved. Find out more here.
How can climbing improve anxiety levels?
Not only is it a great way to get fit and build strength, but climbing can also have a positive impact on mental health. In fact, climbing has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety. Find out more here.
Hangar Reading BTS: Route-setting on a brand new wall
In the latest video from The Hangar YouTube Channel, we caught up with Ollie Jerrett, otherwise known as OJ, and tagged along while he set a brand new climb at our newest site, The Climbing Hangar Reading.
Be first on our brand new wall
The Climbing Hangar Reading launch is just days away, and you have the chance to be amongst the very first people on the wall. Click here to find out more.
See the latest progress at TCH Reading
Reading...set...GO. Berkshire's best value bouldering wall is opening its doors on Monday 30 Jan and the progress is coming in strong to get the wall prepped for your first climb. See our setters get their hands on some fresh holds for the wall.
Q&A session with our routesetters
We got some of the big dogs of routesetting, Dan Knight and Mike Hart, to answer some of your questions on Instagram. Have a look at them here.
Gift Ideas for climbers
Christmas is just around the corner and the last-minute present-shopping panic is well and truly here! If you’ve got a climber in your life and have no clue what they want for Christmas, don’t stress. We’ve pulled together a list of present ideas at varying price options that every climber is guaranteed to love.
Climbing Slab v Overhang
Most climbers will have a preference for climbing wall angle but it's important to climb both to become a good all-round climber. Head coach at TCH London, Cris, gives his super quick tips on how to best climb different wall angles.
1 Climb, 3 Beta: Climbing to suit your style, body shape, and size
There's no right or wrong way to climb! Everyone will climb differently depending on body shape, size and movement preference on the wall... Connor, head coach at TCH Plymouth, explains more.