Climb Leicester - The Tower

Three climbing areas

Climb Leicester - The Tower is Leicester City Council's climbing centre, inside Leicester Leys Leisure Centre in Beaumont Leys. It caters for everyone from first-timers to strong climbers, across three areas.

• The Tower: mostly a lead wall, with 15 lines of 11 to 13 metres and 15-metre routes on the overhanging panels. The first five panels always have top ropes. Around 50 routes from F3+ to F8a, on set holds and features such as flakes, pockets and cracks.
• The Bloc: a fully top-roped area of 12 lines on walls four to five metres high, with a chimney, a slab and vertical walls. Around 30 routes from F2+ to F6a, ideal for beginners and groups.
• Bouldering wall: roughly 25 set problems and 15 feature problems from V0 to V8, reset regularly.

A training area in the Bloc has a campus board, fingerboards, pull-up bars and TRX stations.

Getting started

You can turn up and boulder during opening hours, with an induction included in the entry fee. Roped climbers who already know how to climb take a quick competency check on their first visit, so call ahead. For beginners there are 45-minute taster sessions, a three-week adult course, a learn-to-lead course, a parent and child course and NICAS lessons for juniors aged eight and up. Juniors must be supervised by an adult member or instructor. Shoes, harnesses and belay devices can be hired, and memberships can be combined with the leisure centre's gym and pool.