Climbing is a surprisingly information based activity. Besides satisfying our basic curiosity and enthusiasm for the sport, few of us go climbing without first having armed ourselves with some knowledge.

As climbers, we are interested in information on anything from routes and climbing areas to training and equipment. The internet has completely revolutionised the amount of information that is now out there and is potentially available to us. It's out there, but - How do I find it?

We've all experienced the haphazard nature of searching for climbing material using search engines. The objective of WorldClimb is to change all that.

WorldClimb is the definitive climbing directory for the web. It currently indexes 2561 websites worldwide. We include equipment and clothing manufacturers, climbing related services, general websites, publications, events and organisations. All websites are categorised and cross indexed under the relevant subject areas as well as the countries in which they're based. They can be accessed via these categories, using an A-Z listing, or by using text based search that can be focused to particular subject areas.

Each website listed on WorldClimb has its own WorldClimb profile page. This details the countries and categories under which a website is indexed, as well as a link through to the actual website. This is all provided for free. We make a small amount of money by selling targeted advertising on the navigation pages of the site (WorldClimb Adverts).

To illustrate where we are at, WorldClimb currently indexes 677 sites in the US, 109 in Canada, 960 in the UK, 117 in Australia, 62 in New Zealand, 90 in France, 58 in Germany, 54 in Norway and 32 in Chile. We have listings for 101 countries at present. We only have 1 website listed for Bermuda but we're working on it.

WorldClimb is an ambitious project that is constantly expanding. We are continually analysing the way in which people are trying to search for climbing related information, in order that we can improve and incorporate new functionality into the WorldClimb site. We have just started adding climbing walls and retailers to our database. We are also tackling the complex issue of incorporating foreign language sites into our database. WorldClimb is getting bigger.