Puffed balls of cotton candy-like clouds dotted the freshly laundered blue sky setting the backdrop for the Shah Alam Extreme Park’s “Piala Datuk Bandar” competition. The two climbing walls towered majestically over the heads of the climbers while the convenient refuge of Pizza Hut, KFC and Burger King wafted smells of its delicacies in the background.

The first dry spell in a long string of rainy days and the sun shone menacingly in vengeance. The sweltering heat however did little to evaporate neither the climbers nor the spectators (who perched in groups under tiny umbrellas and lazed on make shift mats) [...]

The Shah Alam Extreme Park at Section 13 has been open for a while now and has within it a skate park, cycling park and two towering climbing walls. We hope that this site can be used to publicize more new routes on these walls as well as organize group activities there for a more constructive climbing community.Do note that there is NO entrance fee. Yes ladies and gentlemen, if you have your own gears the walls are FREE. If you don’t, do not fret as there are rentals available. See below for details.

In case you get off work a [...]

Camp5 is a popular and well equipped indoor climbing gym, located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. No regional guide to climbing activities can claim to be complete without referencing this gym. In writing statements from the visiting world cup athletes of 2006, Camp5 is remarked as one of the best climbing gyms in the world. Although no world ranking list has been produced to validate the claim, it’s not difficult to see that Camp5, standing in a 24m glass tower with a 270deg panorama could be well seated in the top ten.

Built Stretchmarks Asia, the company whose consultation, design and [...]

Find below a slide show of all collected images from Camp5. If you wish to donate some pictures to this slideshow, please email them to putra@putraclimb.com.

We will really appreciate your contribution.