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Spanish Canary Islands rise above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco in Africa. Their warm-in-winter climate has long made them a destination for tourists escaping the cold weather in North America, but over the past few years, more and more Canadians are realizing that the area is home to world-class cragging. There are beaches and forests, as well as Teide, a 3,718- metretall volcano, and endless basalt to be climbed. Some of the first bolted climbs were established back in the early 1990s, and the rate of development have never slowed. Now there are boulders, trad routes, multi-pitch lines, deep-water soloing and everything in between. While there is climbing on many of the islands, the island