We recently came across a short video of Ganesha 8b+ - India's hardest sport route at Badami, Karnataka in the south of the country. The line was bolted in 2010 by top French climber Alex Chabot. Projecting the climb in the film is 22 year-old Abhishek Mehta - one of India's top speed climbers, who was also keen to push his sport grade outdoors.
I take it there's not much other climbing in India. This is the only sport climbing I've seen there - and there's quite a bit of footage of Ganesha. There's Hampi and one other bouldering place where Klem Loskott made a film about some time ago.
There's definitely loads of potential for all sorts of climbing in india, as with a lot of things in the mountains though the rock faces often get ignored in favour of the peaks, there's also the logistical problems of getting there in the first place.
There is loads of potential and quite a lot of established routes in the Bangalore area. I guess we might not hear loads about them on here because any URLs from India (and China) are blocked from posting on UKC (as I found out when I was there!).
Not sure if you will be able to access this but the Bangalore Climbers Facebook gives some idea of all the routes in the area: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BangaloreClimbingAndOutdoorsGroup/
> There's definitely loads of potential for all sorts of climbing in india, as with a lot of things in the mountains though the rock faces often get ignored in favour of the peaks, there's also the logistical problems of getting there in the first place.
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