Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Does the price and quality of climbing holds really matters when it comes to great route-setting?

We teamed up with route-setter George Lonsdale at @theclimbinghangaruk to find out.

George (head setter at TCH Matchworks and Liverpool Sandhills) was given a $50 dollar budget to set a bouldering problem and a $5000 dollar budget to set a bouldering problem. Both had to be bangers, but commercially viable and both problems are still up in the climbing gym for you to try. Will the $50 or the $5000 boulder problem win?

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00:00 Introduction to George, Head Route Setter at The Climbing Hangar
02:34 Setting the Most Expensive Boulder
05:32 Setting the Cheap Boulder
11:23 Tweaking the Cheap Boulder
11:54 Testing the Boulders
17:13 Trying to climb the most expensive boulder


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