Climb Central keeps a foothold in the crowded rock-climbing market

SINGAPORE’S recent rock-climbing boom has left the industry oversaturated with commercial climbing gyms, even as demand wanes from its pandemic peak, said Lim June Pein, director of Climb Asia.

Climb Asia owns one of Singapore’s largest indoor climbing players, Climb Central, which offers both top-rope climbing – where climbers are attached to a rope – and bouldering, which takes place closer to the ground without ropes or harnesses.

Since Covid-19 hit in 2020, more than 15 new climbing and bouldering gyms have opened across the island, for an estimated total of more than 40.