Climbing in Trondheim centres on Grip, whose two centres at Leangen and Sluppen have rope walls of up to 17 m and 21 m, auto-belays and big bouldering areas, and on Buld, a bouldering centre at Lade. Smaller halls in Stjørdal, Orkanger and Selbu are within easy reach, and Flatanger, home to some of the hardest sport routes in the world, is about three hours' drive north.
Photo: Grip Klatring
Grip Sluppen, opened in 2020, has a rope hall up to 21 m high, among the tallest indoor walls in Norway, with auto-belays, a large bouldering area, a Kilter Board, a MoonBoard and a spray wall, plus a children's area and a café. It hosted a round of the national bouldering cup, the Norgescup, in April 2026. Grip Leangen, opened in 2023 with Walltopia walls, has rope walls of 17 m and 12 m with many auto-belays, a big bouldering area with two Kilter Boards and a MoonBoard, and a children's section. Grip's memberships and clip cards work at both centres.
Buld, on Ormen Langes vei at Lade, was created when UTE.no and Trondheim Buldresenter rebuilt and extended the old Utehallen, and it has a café with a view. It's open from 07:00 to 23:00 every day, and a free 90-minute introduction runs every Thursday, when you pay only for entry.
In October 2026 an adult day ticket cost NOK 175 at both Grip centres, with youth, student and senior tickets at NOK 150 and a cheaper daytime student ticket, and NOK 125 at Buld, which charged students NOK 95 and everyone NOK 69 on weekdays before 15:00. Grip's one-month card cost NOK 1,150, or NOK 709 a month on a 12-month contract, and Buld's monthly card NOK 899 with no commitment.
Bouldering needs no certificate, and at Grip you can use the auto-belays after a short introduction. To belay on a rope you need a Brattkort, Norway's belay certificate, and Grip runs two-day courses that lead to one.
Stjørdal Klatrehall, in the municipal Stjørdalshallen, has rope walls and a bouldering room that you book by the hour; Stjørdal Klatreklubb sets the routes. Klatrehallen Orklandbadet in Orkanger, opened in 2013 and run by the leisure centre with Orkla Fjellsportklubb, has top-rope, lead and auto-belay walls and 300 m² of bouldering. Selbu Klatrehall is a club hall that visitors can drop in to on Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Further afield, Krux Klatring in Oppdal has a wall up to 25 m in its slate-clad tower.
Close to the city, Tikneppen, a short drive west of the centre, has granite sport and trad routes of 5 to 15 m, and Harbak on the Fosen coast has more than 200 boulder problems. The big draw is Flatanger, about three hours north: its Hanshelleren cave stays dry under a huge granite overhang and holds some of the world's hardest sport routes, including Adam Ondra's Silence, first climbed in 2017 and proposed as the first 9c, while the nearby Strøm area has about 150 routes.
Trondheim Klatreklubb trains at Grip Leangen, runs a para-climbing group and took three podium places at the 2026 national lead championships; students climb with NTNUI, Norway's largest student sports club. Sit, the student welfare organisation, also has a climbing wall of about 14 m and a bouldering wall in its newest training centre, Sit Øya Treningssenter, in the Helgasetr building on the Øya campus. The Trøndercup comes to Trondheim on 28 November 2026, and the city hosts the junior national bouldering championships on 27–28 February 2027.
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