If you happen to be in Selangor and in need of climbing fix, you can consider going 1 Utama Shopping Centre. It’s damn big, even bigger than Mid Valley. It’s so huge that it can host two big supermarkets. Inside it hosts a tropical rainforest (not the real one you dumbass).
Look at the top of the shopping centre… there’s a logo of 5.
That’s the logo for Camp5!!!
Camp5 claims to be the largest indoor climbing gym in Asia. I was skeptical at first, but after i went in i am fucking impressed. Mrs Chongky and i behaved like kids in a mega candy store. Camp5 itself is good enough reason for Mrs Chongky and i to migrate to KL.
This leading wall on the 2nd storey is already higher at 15m than the one in school.
And the place is still going through expansion. The wall with a lot of empty holes is a new face that is yet to be completed. There is plan for multi-pitch wall too, which i didn’t manage to identify.
We could be leading and climbing and bouldering, but the rental for rope at 20rm per hour (runners are bolted to the wall) saves us that trouble of doing all 3 and we devote our energy to climbing and bouldering only.
Climbing wall on the second storey at around 8m, but the routes are sure challenging. And seeing tiles on every single surface sure make us go into orgasm the whole day. Mrs Chongky is especially excited, because she only likes climbing in air-conditioned place.
The wall on the left side actually runs from first storey of Camp5, so it’s probably 15metres. There are two set of belaying machines, so it sorta makes climbing more accessible to everyone because people can come without a belaying slave. The tiles are big and good for speed climbing on that wall, but the height makes the climb not any easier. Plus i’m naturally not good at climbing. =(
What makes CHONGKY goes crazy is the artifical (i think) natural rock which neither of us can climb.
Don’t be deceived by the harmless appearance. We imagined it to be easy till we try to climb up a little. Damn, shall conquere it next time.
I’m most happy with the bouldering wall actually. It’s damn comprehensive. Overhangs, flat wall, roof. All stretches across just like this face of the bouldering section here.
The wall is probably around 5 metres tall, and you can actually climb up to the second floor from here. The best view should come from here, because this part of the wall faces only glass panels, which allows view all the way to don’t-know-where of Malaysia.
A stand-alone bouldering wall.
Well this is definitely not cuter than the elephant-shaped bouldering wall near the reception. It’s something for kids actually, with very cute tiles. And adults can play in it too!
After climbing we were so hungry and messy that our hotel ended up the same way we were.
Muahaha…
Out of 3 days in KL, we went Camp5 on two days. Now that we are back in Singapore, we miss Camp5.
So much so that we made the elephant bouldering wall last night.
