Climbing in India
Sep. 22nd, 2019 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsI went climbing yesterday on a granite dome north of Bengaluru (Bangalore). Lead a bunch of stuff, top-roped others. It was a lot of friction and small edges -- so now I can't access my phone with my fingerprint anymore.
The last climb I top-roped was the hardest; I made it up with lots of falls and hanging and resting. The guide claimed it was 6c+ (5.11b if you translate from French grades which are, apparently, what they use in India, at least for sport routes) -- but I find that hard to believe. Even if it was my style (thin, technical, balancy -- but not steep), it seems unlikely I'd climb something that hard. Or, maybe, I just climb better in French -- was climbing harder stuff than I thought I should in both Spain and France on trips this year, too. (Or, maybe, as Phil claimed on FB, I can TR hang-dog my way up a 5.11b that is my style.)
This was my first time climbing in Asia, and, depending on how you count continents, I may have added another continent to the list of continents I've climbed in.
The last climb I top-roped was the hardest; I made it up with lots of falls and hanging and resting. The guide claimed it was 6c+ (5.11b if you translate from French grades which are, apparently, what they use in India, at least for sport routes) -- but I find that hard to believe. Even if it was my style (thin, technical, balancy -- but not steep), it seems unlikely I'd climb something that hard. Or, maybe, I just climb better in French -- was climbing harder stuff than I thought I should in both Spain and France on trips this year, too. (Or, maybe, as Phil claimed on FB, I can TR hang-dog my way up a 5.11b that is my style.)
This was my first time climbing in Asia, and, depending on how you count continents, I may have added another continent to the list of continents I've climbed in.
