Climb

The David Ross Sports Village includes a state-of-the-art climbing wall that is 12m high with over 50 graded routes which are changed regularly throughout the year.

The wall is well equipped with permanent top ropes, space for lead climbing and 3 auto belays. Alongside this, our bouldering wall o ers a huge range of graded problems, including our recently installed ‘moon board’ providing an almost unlimited amount of problems that the climber is able to set via our free to download app. This allows us to o er a range of climbing sessions for all levels of climbers.

Our expert climbing team can run you through the basics of climbing with either our Learn to Climb sessions or Bouldering and Auto Belay inductions - no experience is required for any of these sessions. For intermediate and advanced climbers, we o er Improver sessions and Learn to Move sessions where we can teach the fundamental skills of climbing movement and suggest improvements to your technique and demonstrate more advanced skills.

Access to the climbing wall is by prior booking via our main online booking system or at any of our sports facilities. Both the University of Nottingham Climbing club and the University of Nottingham Caving club hold regular sessions on the wall and these are open to club members. Please contact the clubs to nd out more.

New climbers are required to complete an Acknowledgement of Risk Form prior to using the wall. Beginners can enrol on our popular Learn to Climb session before climbing unsupervised. If you have never climbed before there are various taster sessions available where you can just try climbing for the rst time.