Perhaps not really a secret but not many of us parents had heard of Awesome Walls at Pear Mill, Stockport before taking our kids there for a birthday party on Sunday.

It’s pretty fantastic seeing the kids (in this case, 7 and 8 year old girls) climbing up walls that I’d certainly be thinking twice about.  Awesome walls claims the highest climbing wall in England (looked pretty high to me, I must admit) and has a host of other walls for climbing and bouldering at all sorts of angles.

The highest climbing wall in England?

Not an angle I’d have a go at

These are the walls the party girls were climbing – to the top.