Diga di Luzzone: The 500-Foot Climbing Wall

The Diga di Luzzone is both a operative dam as well as one of a largest artificial rock rock climbing walls in a world.

Bolted in a 1990s, this spot in Switzerland is home to one of a two largest man-made rock rock climbing routes in a world, a 540-foot, five-pitch monster which curves a approach up a side of a Luzzone dam. As climbers go by a pitches, a concave wall changes character, starting off slabby, afterwards straightening out to vertical.

I havent personally been to Luzzone, though in pictures, it looks disturbingly exposed, with no underline as well as little texture to a petrify of a dam. By a last pitch, climbers face high rock rock climbing hundreds of feet off a rug to get to a top.

Climbers who wish to chuck down upon a dam will need to pay twenty Swiss francs each to get a keys to clear a ladder which crosses a initial section. For those of us who only wish to live a knowledge vicariously, this video should be more than enough.

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