THE DISTRICT’S daredevils and adrenaline junkies will be able to put their nerves to the test when the UK’s highest man-made climbing wall is completed this spring.

Higher than both the Tower of London and the Angel of the North, the towering ROKTFACE wall at ROKT climbing centre in Brighouse will see people climb to dizzy heights of up to 36m.

The climbing wall will be created on one of the faces of a sky-scraping disused flour silo, which sits alongside the Calder and Hebble Navigation. Around 2,500 anchors are being drilled to create up to 28 unique routes.

The £75,000 project is being led by ROKT climbing centre in partnership with Calderdale Council to help raise the profile and participation of healthy activity as well as tourism for the area.

It will give the courageous climbers views of up to around 20 miles across Yorkshire when completed, hopefully by around May time. Bosses hope it could create around 10 new jobs and the ground-breaking project will also be affordably priced.

Euan Noble, ROKT’s Commercial Director, said: “ROKTFACE will give people of almost all climbing abilities the chance to effectively climb into the clouds and go higher than ever before. Thanks to our partnership with Calderdale Council, we’re turning dreams into reality.

“We opened six years ago with a dream of creating something different and inclusive – for climbers of all ages and abilities – and this is another step towards that. On Boxing Day 2015, we were under several feet of water and some thought ROKT wouldn’t survive. Just over a year on we are bigger, better and stronger than ever thanks to our customers and the community.

“Our plans won’t stop here as we are embracing climbing’s introduction into the next Olympics and during the coming months and years we will continue towards making ROKT and Halifax the adrenaline gateway to Yorkshire and maybe even the UK.”

Cllr Faisal Shoukat, Calderdale Council’s Cabinet Member for Public Health and Inequalities, said: “We are happy to be involved with this innovative project and support ROKT’s ambitious plans in Brighouse. The new climbing wall is something really different for the area, providing a further, alternative option for people to get active, supporting Calderdale’s ambition to be the most active borough in the north.”

The routes will be set by respected climbers and will range from 28m to 36m high.