Sport climbing is becoming an increasingly popular competitive sport as well as a recreational activity. For this reason, indoor sport climbing operators are constantly trying to improve their services and optimally use their infrastructure. One way to support such a task is to track the climbing activities performed by visitors while climbing. This paper considers a scenario in which a sensor is attached to a piece of climbing equipment that connects the climbing rope to the bolt anchors (quickdraws) and a camera is overlooking a climbing wall. Within this scenario, this paper explores two approaches to detect when a climber finishes a climb and pulls the rope from the wall: 1) a hybrid approach in which sensors and cameras are used and 2) a video-based approach where only cameras are used. The evaluation resulted in recognition precision of 91% for the hybrid and 76% for the video-based approach, respectively. This paper also discusses advantages and disadvantages of analysed approaches and points out future research directions to allow the automatic tracking of climbing activities.

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Climbing is a popular sport for active tourists and recreational sportsmen. Alpine climbing areas, such as the Alps, can attract tourists from all over the world. Various websites, mobile applications, and books are used by climbers to obtain information on important aspects of the available climbing routes, including their properties, location, and especially their difficulty. Considering this large amount of information and options, it is in reality difficult for climbers to properly select which routes to climb. Hence, we propose recommendation technologies aimed at supporting climbers in this decision task. The developed system prototype constructs a climber’s profile with preferences derived from climber’s logbook data collected by a mobile app. Then, the system can recommend suitable crags and climbing routes within the selected crags. The designed interface and the basic computational models for such a system prototype are presented. The proposed technology aims at complementing existing electronic climbing guidebooks and providing decision support to climbers.