Routes in India for selected grade

High and crimpy problem. Dangerous.

Crimpy start. High Boulder problem. Dangerous.

B16 P1. Same problem can be started from crack and traversed from right to left.

B17 Back face P1

B3 P1. Climbs arete. Very high. Key hold has broken, so maybe harder.

B3 P2

B3 P3

Dyno, and cosmic crimping

Could be Font 6C or 7C who knows?

B1 P1. Stand start.

B2 P1. High boulder problem. Dangerous.

Right side of the arete.

B6 P1. Sloper arete problem.

B8 P1. Tricky start from under cut.

Traverse from right to left

Sit down start, small crimps.

B18 P2. Hot slapper boulder: Stand start up slopey vertical rail into slopey top out.

Anchor has one glue in bolt + One hanger bolt with a mylon.

Pumpy meets technical, worth every bit of pain. On the left hand side before you reach the 7c+ traverse. Starts with nice sloper, hook your way up!

Really nice climbing, hard crux (V6ish) between 2nd and 3rd bolt and then the rest is a balance fest

Super classic pump fest, jug broken at start giving it an upgrade. Start on the ground, no boulder starts. Right hand route going up the main south wall right face. Must do.

2023 a single bolt with a ring has been installed left of the last bolt; for use as top-roping anchor as the actual anchor goes over a bulge/edge and creates lot of rope rub

Bolted by Chitrabhanu in Nov 2020. Not sure if this route has a FFA yet. The grade given is tentative, but around 7b/+

Outstanding route, amazing holds the whole way up. Technical and strong. Must do. Shares the first 2 bolts with Surga & Sawli route.

Saraswati middle route. Powerful moves on good quality rock. One bolt anchor

Nice rock on a 30 m wall. Has anchors

Take off on the jug, and then the feature that was useful to make moves further broke.

Project.

Starts along a ledge of a crack traversing left, and then the project crux for about six-eight feet of connecting to the upper section, over the roof.

Seems possible to protect with pitons in the upper thin crack. The lower diagonal crack can be protected with hand and smaller cams. Cams only! Or Tricams, maybe.

A finger and hand crack that runs horizontally to the right and then connects through a series of horizontal cracks to the top

Easy to protect, stiff climb

Aided my way up and then attempted to project

Exit: Mid-way through to the right (east), a tree allows you to rap off back to the base. Tree on the west face as well.

Rack: Doubles of #.3 through #.75 and nuts of similar size or below. Preferably off sets.

Anchor: Cracks and tree (Halfway up to the right)

Natural Anchor: Tree

Stiff crimpy first 20 feet and then couple of cuxy sections to the top out.

Rachit Singhvi figured out the moves.

Same top-anchor as Angulimala***

The thin finger crack bang in the middle of the area. It's a bit left to the small cave.

Start is bouldery with overhung ring locks and you get to a decent rest after the first 15 feet. Then the route continues up a finger crack which turns into a seam.

Traverse right from the first horizontal break and get up the thin hand crack to finish.

FFA: Aravind Selvam, Mar 2019

Offwidth crack

The crack starts to the right on the south facing wall, as a hand crack, traverses left and opens up into the crux off-width. Past the offwidth, further short traverse to the left as hand crack and then along a flake and then the heady but easy top- out.

Rack: Upto #4, or #5 (optional).

Anchor: Crack (Finger and hand cracks)

Natural Anchor: Boulder and tree. Long anchor.

FKA, Sohan with support from Amrit Appaden and Karthik Maddineni, Feb 2021

Via the right-side crack, past the crack, the rock has potential for a stiff line.

With the last piece of protection in the crack below.

Top Anchor: Small cams to tricams.

Five to ten meters south-east of Crack Jack sits this high boulder, with a thin crack and features on the south face.

Top-roped by Christopher Diaz in 1992, per Dinesh Kaigonhalli.

Per Aravind Selvam, the line in the center is possible to be freed.

The boulder evidently attempted to be quarried provides for a crack, that runs diagonally. The crack is formed by the outer rock overlapping the inner boulder , starts as a finger crack and widens to fist and half size towards the top.

Mildly overhanging and lacking in footholds, the crack eases up only after the crack turns vertical, and flares wider to allow some foot jams.

Rack: Finger sized cams all the way upto #4 BD Cam-sized pieces.

Top Anchor: Cracks that allow finger sized and hand-sized gear. Best to use tricams to avoid the cams getting bent.

Head to the top of the north crag, from the west facing path.

Short powerful route on a boulder sitting at the top of the hill.

Route by Madhu Raj, Gujju Razzak, Nagaraj and TT Niranjan. Mar 2017

FFA: Madhu Raj

Top rope with 2 anchor bolts with double rings. Does not have lead bolts yet. This route is on a bit of overhanging wall and is about 20 m to the right of Veera Madrasi route. Top anchors bolted by Pranesh Manchaiah. The expected grade is 5.12a/b.

Left of Louvre, apparently, a stiffer 5.11ish route that was climbed as a top rope route from the tree that marks the end of the Louvre first pitch.

Philip Coquard & Dominic Danard.(1989)

You'll know it when you see it. The huge blank slab with a rounded edge.

The left finish

The right finish

On the left of the face: stand start on the left side of the face, then up. Be aware of the drop on the left side.

The right side of the face next to 'Science of Chai'.

Start a fast left as possible, traverse the break, and up the first seam/flake

Start low on the left and traverse up to the right, being careful of the flexing flake.

Obvious tall crack on the downhill side of the boulder.

Traverse the lip and finish up 'Beta Spoiler'

Sit start on holds just above the lowest lip (as for 'Direct'), move out right then up.

Starts at the under cling and goes to the right. Difficult start and sustained boulder till the top.

sit start to cross and find the area where the two rock are joined. Hard and demanding top out.

Follow the crack and top out at small shrub.

very crimpy, vertical Highball

A small boulder opposite of the Photoshoot rock. Many have bled on the first move. Very sharp but big crimp.

Just before the tounge rock, to the left on a plane boulder, you'll find a solo round boulder sitting.

crimp starting high ball

Offwidth

An epic lead by Amrit Appadan supposed by Iniyan Sivaneri bumping up #5 and #6 for a fair distance.

Sport multi-pitch route with a finger crack of 15 meters.

P1: 5.12b. 25 meters. 10 + 2 bolts

The corner moves are powerful, and on thin holds. Followed by 15 meters of finger crack. Three bolts were placed on this crack. If anyone wants to remove those three bolts, welcome to climb the route, and on gear, and can remove the bolts. The bolts are Rawl bolts and are easy to remove.

P2: 5.10a. 25 meters. 6 + 2 Bolts

The route angles left, and not terribly hard compared to P1!

P3: 5.4. 15 meters. 0 bolts

Through a gully top out.

Exit from second pitch or technical scramble to the left.

Route credit: Sohan, Poonacha M., Latha BN, and Aravind Selvam (Jun-Jul 2017)

FFA: Bharath Gowda (Apr 2019)

FFA: Saurabh C.

FFA: Shwetank Kumar