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A monthly bouldering session that brings refugees and local climbers together at The Climbing Hangar's Liverpool walls is featured in a new video series by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the UN Refugee Agency.

Liverpool's climbing community has come together to provide an innovative space for refugees and asylum-seekers to access the physical and mental health benefits of bouldering while meeting friendly faces and forming lasting friendships.

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Bravo to all involved! Three things that have been very important in my life - climbing, Liverpool, and supporting refugees - brought together in one glorious package. 

A total of 7 downticks (as I write). I really wish at least one person "down ticking" would take the time to explain why they disapprove of this story or of my reply. 

Maybe because they think it is a feel-good piece glossing over the UK's appalling record on asylum seekers. Whether being in a boulder hall in Liverpool is better than locked up on a barge is a matter of debate.

Is that really, though, a matter of debate? 

Its a shame that you react like this. Regardless of the UKs approach to asylum seekers, this is a great programme run by passionate people, that brings people together to participate in a sport that we all love. 

Perhaps this article and video will encourage other people and other walls to do similar things; this can only be positive and maybe contribute to offsetting the less positive aspects of the UKs approach to asylum seekers.

I wrote " they" for good reason. 

You did indeed, apologies for my presumption/poor comprehension.

I really like this idea and wonder if there's any chance of it extending into other places in the UK. I'd have a go at lending a hand with such a scheme in Leeds.