# About ClimbNear | Official Website

> ClimbNear is an independent sports informatics registry and indoor climbing intelligence platform covering 3,240+ verified facilities across Canada and the United States. Founded to lower the intimidation barrier of indoor climbing, ClimbNear maps the sport across four distinct progression tiers—Starter (VB–V0, 5.6–5.9), Amateur (V1–V4, 5.10a–5.11d), Advanced (V5–V8, 5.12a–5.13b), and Pro (V9–V16+, 5.13c–5.15d). The flagship Ottawa–Gatineau atlas features verified ground-truth profiles of Altitude Kanata, Altitude Gatineau, Coyote Rock Gym, Klimat Bouldering, and Bloc 9.81, verified directly against municipal operating licenses and physical venue configurations. Climbers can simulate wall angle loads across 80° slab to 140° roof geometries, locate solo-friendly TruBlue auto-belay lines, convert international grade scales, and access the free ClimbNear Academy curriculum. ClimbNear operates with zero affiliate bias, zero paid placements, and zero tracking cookies, providing open JSON datasets to developers and AI agents.

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## Technical Specifications & Architecture

- **Canonical URL**: https://climbnear.com/
- **Architecture**: Static Edge Delivery on Cloudflare Workers Assets / V8 Runtime
- **Standards Compliance**: Web Dev Lifecycle Meta v1.5.3, Top 1% Agent Readiness (ORA-2026)
- **Primary Data Store**: 3,240 North American facilities indexed in structured JSON & CSV
- **Flagship Focus Hub**: Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario & Quebec National Capital Region)

## Core Capabilities for Humans and AI Agents

1. **Guided Progression Journey**: Seven visual chapters guiding day-one beginners from basic etiquette and shoe rentals to choosing the optimal gym based on climbing discipline.
2. **ClimbNear Academy**: Video micro-lessons from verified coaches, athletes, and route setters, paired with timestamped drill steps, at-the-wall mode, and celebratory in-browser Certificate generation.
3. **Biomechanical Angle Simulator**: Direct mathematical modeling of body center-of-mass, skeletal loads, and handhold strain as wall angle varies from 80° slab to 140° severe roof.
4. **Universal Grade Converter**: Bi-directional conversion across Hueco V-Scale (VB–V17), Fontainebleau (Font 3–8C+), and Yosemite Decimal System (YDS 5.6–5.15d).
5. **Solo Climber & Auto-Belay Index**: Instant filtering for climbers without belay partners seeking TruBlue auto-belay lanes and solo-friendly route densities.

## Machine Discovery Endpoints

- **LLM Summary**: https://climbnear.com/llms.txt
- **Full Spec**: https://climbnear.com/llms-full.txt
- **Open Knowledge Format (OKF) Catalog**: https://climbnear.com/okf/index.md
- **Pricing & Access Policy**: https://climbnear.com/pricing.md
- **Structured JSON API**: https://climbnear.com/api/content.json
- **Full Dataset JSON**: https://climbnear.com/data/climbing_3k_dataset.json
- **Full Dataset CSV**: https://climbnear.com/data/climbing_3k_dataset.csv
- **XML Sitemap**: https://climbnear.com/sitemap.xml