Urban city crag near the Herttoniemenranta hoods. The rock is manufactured and sometimes not the best but the setting is beautiful by urban standards.
The location next to the sea is perfect. The locals gather here for evening beers and sunset sightseeing. There's the also the scenic Kipparlahti boating dock in front of the cliff.
Many of the Malmi airport planes used to fly above Kipparvuori. Malmi airport waypoint NOKKA is situated directly above the crag.
The dock was built by Öljynpuristamo Oy in 1959. Öljynpuristamo was supplying grease for Paasivaara Oy margarin factory untill the 1990's. The tunnel below route Redrum is about 100 metes long and would end up in the factory and big grease tanks if they still were there.
The trade worked also the other direction and some workers used to trade taxfree alcohol through this same tunnel. In the 1960's there was also a big margarin scandal in Finland. Unilever (who owned Paasivaara Oy) got caught for using very bad quality grease for making margarin. Sometimes they used rotting animal corpses, including cats, dogs, pigs and rabbits. Paasivaara lost their reputation, got investigated by KRP and had to stop producing their margarin Suvikulta. There was a legendary phrase: "Ennen pantiin Mirrit multaan, nyt ne pannaan Suvikultaan." It wasn't that good for marketing of Suvikulta, though.
In Aku Ankka the factory is known as Kattivaara. Vuorineuvos Eino Kivivuori was the CEO of Raision Tehtaat at the time and had to resign. The dock was abandoned for a couple of decades before the climbing started.
