WSPA

Santa Claus visits Chimney Rock to climb chimney

CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C. (WSPA) – Santa Claus is coming to town! To Chimney Rock, that is. He and Mrs. Claus will be visiting Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday ...
Yahoo

Jaw-dropping footage shows 21-year-old climb the highest chimney in Europe

Slovenian climbers Janja Garnbret, 21, and Domen Škofic, 26, reached the top of the 1,180-foot cement chimney — a feat that took the duo 12 hours to complete. The smokestack is part of a ...
Mercury News

World’s tallest artificial climbing route: 7½ hours on a power plant’s chimney

[vemba-video id=”sports/2021/02/01/janja-garnbret-domen-skofic-trbovlje-chimney-ascent-climbing-spt-intl-lon-orig.cnn”] (CNN) — The Trbovlje Power Station in ...
KEYT

‘The most special thing I’ve done’: Two world-class climbers scale the tallest chimney in Europe

Soaring 360 meters into the sky, the Trbovlje Power Station in Slovenia is home to Europe’s tallest chimney. Just the mere sight of it is enough to make most tremble at the knees but two Slovenian ...
WFAE

Nonprofits purchase 16 acres for rock-climbing area in hard-hit Chimney Rock

Chimney Rock will soon be home to a new rock-climbing area featuring some of the toughest climbs in North Carolina. It’s welcome news for one of the communities that was hardest hit by Hurricane ...