nerd alert: indoor climbing safer than soccer?

yup. according to german researchers.

the study, injuries at the 2005 world championship in climbing, published in wilderness and environmental medicine, looked at injury rates per hour during the 2005 world championships of climbing in munich and compared those numbers to other sporting events. pretty interesting.

so the next time your friends are reluctant to join you at the climbing wall, embrace your inner nerd and whip this neatly folded PDF report out of your back pocket.