The tower at Trbovlje Power Station used to billow smoke out of its neighbouring chimney from its summit 360 metres into the sky. Now no longer operational, two of the world’s leading climbers in Janja Garnbret and Domen Škofic came together to tackle the tallest chimney in Europe in their native Slovenia. It stands as the highest chimney in Europe but, from 2014, it has not been operational. The route plotted out for Garnbret and Škofic was also the largest artificial climbing route in the world, designed by specialists and IFSC route setters Katja Vidmar and Simon Margon. Venue of the Trbovlje Chimney in Trbovlje, Slovenia // Jakob Schweighofer/Red Bull Content Pool There were 13 pitches to tackle in all, the easiest of which were graded at 7b, while six were graded 8 and abov...
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