For those of you who think bouldering is a recent occurrence in climbing history, think again.

There are documented accounts of bouldering that go back at least as far as the 1870s, according to John Gill.
http://www128.pair.com/r3d4k7/Bouldering_History1.0.html
It’s equally enlightening to see that “practice climbing,” training on man-made climbing wall structures, even in the US was coming of age in the 1930s in places like Washington.



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