Rotterdam buildering - Urban climbing

Everything is climbable - On this page you find the buildering projects of other climbers, and of course our own projects.By now we've climbed bridges, church towers, billboards, light masts, trees, steel arches, harbour quay's and containers. Other adventurers have climbed chimneys, air traffic control towers and transmission line towers. You'll find many pictures and reports on this page.

BTW - There are so many buildering projects by Jan van der Meulen that he's been given his own page.

Very exciting climbs by Heath Bunting - he climbs artworks.

Air traffic control towers

• Schiphol Airport Tower - 60m - 5 September 1999 - spectacular artificial climb for the good cause - environmental activism

• Power station chimney - 125m - 29 November 1998 - spectacular artificial climb just for fun - with dangerous watchdogs

Bridges

• Waalbrug - Nijmegen - traverse 440m - it took us 5 hours to cross the bridge - a lot of pigeon shit
• Waalbrug - More pictures - and the police came by to check on us - but we only got a reprimand
• Botlekbrug - Angelo climbs a circuit under and through the bridge
• Van Brienenoord brug - Angelo walks the arch
• Hefbrug - All the way to the top

• How Walter climbed a crane with a funny helmet on his head.

Bridge swinging

• First attempt at bridge swinging - fallen! - I fell, I got wet ( is shown! ) and Walter was very worried

Transmission line towers

• Theory, practice and beautiful pictures - climbed by Ed Stevenhagen in his youthful enthousiasm

outside & inside

• The tower of the Lambertus church - simple, but so high it scared me - the local saint protected me
• The Lambertus church - of course the view from up there is wonderful - all the river beneath you
• Inside the church-tower of the Hoflaankerk - brick spaces and wooden beams
• The Hoflaan church (Hoflaankerk) - the view all over Kralingen

Billboards

• The right way to get up billboards - Demo - pictures by Dan Armstrong
• The billboard at Horn - my first solo climb
• 9-floor high billboard - Vlaardingen - revisited this place many times - even made TV-recordings on top for the NCRV
• View from the 9-floor high billboard - it is high indeed, and the view is industrial
• Mc'Donalds billboard - Highway - Zoetermeer - an early morning climb, it was high
• Brainpark billboards - Steel - With Walter - just fun climbing in the middle of winter
• Billboard climbing in Arnhem

Light masts

• Hanno site - Katendrecht - Rotterdam - our first group expedition with Dennis and Patrick
• Hanno Light Mast - the view from the mast - it is historic now, the whole site has been renovated

Steel constructions

• Very exciting climbs by Heath Bunting - he climbs artworks.
• Brezan Automaterialen - Vlaardingen, an early morning climb

Stacks of containers

• A stack of containers - 5 floors high. We climbed this with the whole camera team.
• A stack of containers - 8 floors high, I never felt so vulnerable - hot summer evening

Harbour quay's

• How we searched and tried new buildering spots in Rotterdam.
• Climbing with Walter - Rotterdam - good, clean fun

Trees

• Trees in urban areas - more adventurous than you would think

• Rope bridges - good clean fun, still you can get wet ( is shown! ) or hurt

• How we painted a wall in Urban Adventure style. Roped painting.
• Exploring the rooftops of Delfshaven - With nice views of the city