Hi there /r/climbing!
I was wondering if anyone knows what is available (if any) in regards to gear for plus-sized people, harnesses in particular.
My buddy has been climbing for quite a while and whenever he has shown me videos i have been thoroughly impressed, and last week we (a group of friends) went out to Kultur Fabrikken, which is the biggest multi-activity facility in Denmark, and watched him and some of the people he knows out there climb around, even some of our other friends climbed and had a lot of fun.
The issue is, i want to try it, but i am corporeally challenged (aka Fat) and the standard equipment wont fit me, some may say i could just start out in the boulder room which might work, but i would still like to be properly equipped, in this case it's footwear (i don't like the thought of climbing barefoot) my feet are size 46-47EU (13-14½ US) and quite wide, I've found up to size 16 but i still worry about them being too narrow (i have to buy "skater" shoes normally since they aren't as narrow)
Looks like i elegantly danced right past the fat thing, i'm a male who's 1.85m high (~6ft) and 225kg (496lbs)
i haven't found harnesses or anything for larger people so far, i might be using the wrong search parameters but i doubt it
so if anyone has any knowledge/tips/comments i'm all ears.. or well all eyes?
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Hey it's the thing they use to lift my peepee over the potty
bowl!
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OP can't even do a single chin-up but is convinced that if he just gets the right shoes he'll shimmy right up that wall.
The delusion really is something else
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A proper consoomer will always buy a whole bunch of expensive climbing gear rather than think about gravity for 5 seconds
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literally me with every hobby I've ever taken up
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At 500 pounds he consooms plenty
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Yeah they're right about bouldering, it should at least make them face reality.
Are there many activities that require being fit more than rock climbing? You're literally dealing with strength to weight the whole time lmao.
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I want him to try climbing so bad.
He'll be unable to make one move
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I seriously doubt he'd even be able to get off the ground on the bouldering wall
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Should try backpacking with like $500 from cabelas
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He has basically unlimited energy so he can go hiking without packing any food.
Honestly a giga brain idea he can pack light and can lose like 100 pounds in the months of hiking beforehand and then do his climb at the end.
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Hes still gonna be 400 lb
he would be better off hibernating 
and trying again in the spring
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awkchutally climbing is legssport
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You're not supposed to pull yourself up the wall with your arms like that.
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Did this guy watch Eddie Hall climb and think he could do it too?
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Dude needs to start with a stair climber and fork putdowns
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He is the boulder
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That piece of shit is going to do something stupid and need rescuing and it's going to be insane and horrible. Hopefully it's just at a climbing gym and they can call the fire department.
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hopefully they die
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That would be too good. This guy is going to waste 14 hours of first responder time, half of which spent convincing him to clip his harness back and move 5 inches so they can get to him.
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If he falls would he even injure himself with all that padding?
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I don't know, would he?
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Still posting to this day
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I'm surprised he hasn't had a heart attack by now
this is him btw, still fat as ever !thin
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He's so fat that I thought he was sitting like
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kino drone video though
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Mon Dieu.
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downmarseyd for nonsense british units
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Both of those units are nonsense
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Gawww can yew imagine ow that barstard pongs?
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I've seen them hang cows from helicopters, couldn't they just get one of those harnesses?
On another note, why are fatties like "Muh ADD, muh PTSD, muh Fibromyalgia" I get the "muh depression" struggling to fit through doorways is probably really depressing.
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It's not the harness that's the problem. You can lift cows no problem, having them free fall 6 feet into the safety device is another matter altogether. That 500 pounds turns into thousands quickly.
A lot of activities such as zip lining, skydiving, rollercoasters, water slides, etc have strict weight limits around the 300lb mark. Could they all be engineered to cater towards cows? Of course. But why? It's much easier to just slap a weight limit and tell them cows to get bent.
I started my career as a tower climber and you cannot safely climb at 300lbs+.
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Safety?
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no indoor climbing place will host him and no one doing tours or outdoor rock climbing will do anything with him either IMO. He's just a waddling liability waiting to happen.
Real advice, he needs to lose minimum 200lbs before he even thinks about bouldering or anything in the same area.
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This has to be a joke
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Imagine the seismic activity if he falls down a cliff
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He would still be too fat to climb at literally half that weight.
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Well to be fair torterra can learn rock climb
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Next Magnus right here
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my sides
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I'm calling you alt-right because you're using alt-right dog whistles. Don't like it? Don't use them. Though it's always been funny to me the way you fascistic fricks pretend to be upset when you get identified for being exactly what you are.
I don't give a frick about your view on religion.
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He is still fat
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