It’s not surprising that BridgeClimb is the perfect corporate team building activity, as that’s how the experience originated 9 years before doors opened to the public

Today BridgeClimb is celebrated as a world renowned, award winning, must-do activity for international travellers and Sydneysiders alike.

Since it’s door opened in 1998, BridgeClimb has taken more than 3.5 million Climbers to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge from more than 137 countries, aged from 8 years to 100 years.

Once a picture on a postcard, the Sydney Harbour Bridge is a now an international bucket-list experience. Tiny caterpillar-like groups of Climbers ascending the famous arches in blue and grey suits have become a familiar sight.

However, almost ten years before doors opened for experience collectors, occasion celebrators and Sydney visitors, it all started with just one caterpillar-like-group, an international corporate group on a team building activity.

In 1989 Paul Cave, Chairman and Founder of BridgeClimb, helped conduct the Young Presidents Organisation World Congress in Sydney and was contemplating activities for delegates.

Like many activity planners, he aimed to find a superior team building activity that would deliver on multiple promises. Something that:

• Was interesting and original

• Delegates would want to do and turn up for

• Would deliver unity, motivation and inspiration for teams

• Was iconically Sydney

• Delegates would truly remember and talk about positively after with colleagues, friends and family

Paul already had an affinity for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, originating from his father-in-law, who passed on to Paul the first ever ticket for the train crossing of the Bridge he’d bought as a child in 1932.

Paul was struck by the idea that climbing the engineering masterpiece would tick all of these boxes.

It took Paul nine months to succeed in his mission to take the Young Presidents on the most unique team building activity they had ever, or would ever, experience.

The delegate feedback was overwhelmingly positive and a personal dream was born for Paul Cave to do whatever it would take to share the summit of the Bridge with everyone.

What it took was diligence, sweat and determination for more than nine years, longer than it took to build the Bridge and seven years longer that Paul had anticipated. But today the option to climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 134 meters above the sparkling harbour is open to individuals and business groups alike.

Since its origin as a team building activity, BridgeClimb has made some giant strides in the corporate space and has hosted incentive groups as large as 4,000.

In March 2015 BridgeClimb launched a suite of corporate Climb enhancements created in collaboration with some of Australia’s top EAs, PAs and CEOs.

These enhancements offer a range of special pre and post Climb features, including VIP welcome receptions, corporate branding options, photo displays and catering, that forge a holistic activity to take the stress away for event organisers. And bespoke additions can be arranged on request, such as an accompanied rendition of a company anthem.

And with planners already on the Christmas party quest, BridgeClimb has the perfect package for the festive season wrapped up.

While that first team building Climb took nine months to organise, today you can arrange a group booking and choose from a number of Climb enhancement options in one phone call.

BridgeClimb provides tailored Climb experiences for large groups, ranging from 10 to 10,000 or more, with the ability to operate under a super capacity model that allows for more frequent departures and increased group sizes. The truly memorable experiences are perfect for team incentives, team building events, staff rewards and client entertaining. For more information on corporate Climbs, please visit www.bridgeclimb.com/corporate or call (02) 8274 7775, ext 3.