When they opened the massive new facility with 60-foot-high walls in October of 2023, they were already bidding to hold an ice-climbing World Cup. “They dreamed about this for years,” said ...

In addition to the 40-foot ice wall, the competition continued with what is called a dry tooling event on Climbing Collective’s 60-foot outdoor wall. “Dry tooling simulates outdoor ice climbing.

Luciuk hopes to have the ice wall complete and open to the public (complete with equipment rentals) by mid-January. This is the fifth rendition of the ice wall.

This ice wall is not imaginary, but it actually exists and has been documented in the records of official exploration countries since 1880. The weather conditions after this ice are very harsh, ...