Routes in India for selected grade

A daring variation climb by Lopsang Thsiring, Arun.S - both visiting members to IMF Rock Climbing Camp with couple of members of 'The Climbers' - in 1987.

Opened by Lopsang Thisring, Kamalesh & other members of 'The Climbers' in 1987 during IMF All India Camp.

Route opened by either Naresh, Paramjeet, Annie in 90/91 (5.9/5.10aR) as per Dini, or by Subhomoy, Kamalesh & Jagadeesh in 1994.

Left of the cave. Slab below the cave.

Traverse from the cave, left to a ledge.

Onto a couple of buckets, clear that, go left.

Diagonally left and top out.

Started by Srikanth and Dini, and completed by Naresh, Ajay Balak and Raju K.H. (Mar 1986)

Original first pitch of 50 meters is shared with Basanti.

The original first pitch is an extremely runout line, though on easy terrain after the first 10 odd meters. And the bolts are hard to locate. So, most folks get on CACCAC, and traverse right onto these routes.

P1: 5.6. 50 meters, 3 + 2 bolts.

P2: 5.8. 40 meters. 4 + 2 bolts.

The first bolt is about 20 meters after the P1 anchor station on a very easy terrain. Thereafter, interesting face climb. • Route credit, Dini and Nifa, Jan 25th, 2015.

Requires one #7 or #8 BD Nut.

Two pitches of 35-50 odd meters in length each. Can be done in one push with a 70-meter rope if you scramble up the initial low angle slab.

P1: 5.6. 35 meters. 4 + 2 bolts.

The first half is a low angle slab, with two bolts that are missing hangers. Either carry your own hangers or use nuts to sling around them and protect the scramble up the slab. The slab is only 5.4 in grade. So, you could run it out. There after another 20 meters of 5.6 steep angle slab to the anchor bolts.

P2: 5.8. 50-55 meters. 7 + 2 bolts.

With a 70-meter rope, from top of the low angle slab, and where the steeper slab begins, the climb can be completed in one push.

Second pitch is a sustained 5.7ish and the crux begins from the small roof. After the roof, traverse left towards a horizontal crack. A slight run out between fourth and fifth bolt, which can be protected with a nut (Black Diamond nut #7 or #8).

The route was named to inspire Tsai Yuan Chan (friend of the sponsor of this route, Babitha Dhuler), who was fighting cancer at the time of the route being put up. She passed away in 2016.

Route credit, Sohan, Poonacha, Prashanth, Shreyas, Roma. Jul/Aug 2014.

P1: 5.5. 30 meters. 5 + 2 bolts

Route credit & FFA: Satish Venkatchalaiah.

P2: 5.8. 20 meters. 5 + 2 bolts

The second pitch turns left and goes over the bulge and provides for mildly exciting moments on an otherwise forgettable route.

Second pitch by Karthik Vijayakumar and Abhijit Sriramareddy

Exit by rapping off. If you attempt to walk out, it makes for a long walk across the plateau and down slippery slab (especially during the monsoons).

The route that takes you to the top out.

P1: 5.8. 31 meters. 9 + 2 bolts.

If you don’t follow the route, the grade might feel harder. The headwall with massive pockets provides for the experience.

P2: 5.7. 8 meters. 2 + 2 bolts

Nice airy move to the first bolt, and then quickly gets over. This pitch was put up during route development to allow us to exit faster from the crag.

Route credit, Sohan, Ferdin Sylvester, Griffin Ernest. Dec 2018.

FFA : Karthik Vijayakumar.

According to Sunny Jamshedji, this is “...the best route/crack I’ve climbed in India except for Miyar routes. Hands down!”

“Very small pieces all the way to #4 on P2 anchor.”

Route credit: M.Oberoi, Shyam Krishnan, Dinesh K., & Ajay Tambe (1997-98)

Gaurav (Gujju Razzak) soloed and first ascended this route in April 2016, in apparently 45 minutes! And impressively, down climbed via another line left of it (Snake in the Eagle Shadow - Variation).

The route starts at the base of Flesh Trade, angles left on the slab, goes through a gulley just below the shrubbery, gets on the headwall along a water line, and then goes up straight along the slabby prow. • The yellow line you see to the left, closer to the base is the line, Gujju took to exit, by the way of down climbing. The top was apparently overgrown.

Offwidth crack that takes #3, #4, & #5.

To the left (or north) of the Red Sea, on the plateau a step above.

Facing: West

Rack: Fist and Off-width gear

Anchor: Tree

Natural Anchor: Tree

FKA: Karthik Vijayakumar, 2017

100 + meters.

Old school trad.

Exit by walking off

A 3 bolt line

Anchor - Trees

Route by Shyam Krishnakumar & Sohan. FA: Shyam. November 9th, 2022.

2 pitches of 70 meters and 35 meters respectively with double bolted anchor stations to rap off.

A variation of the DIM route, done by Sunny Jamshedji in Jun 2018

According to Sunny, he followed the DIM first pitch, the he went left, not right, to keep a straight line up the wall to the large white flake, where he setup the first rap station at just shy of 70 meters with ‘a bit of a zig and a bit of a zag’. Then they continued straight up to the next ledge. “But there was no gear there but much lower angle”. Hence his decision to stop there at half rope.

“First piece on P1 was way above the right-side roof, with moves very difficult to reverse. The first piece was about 50-60’, but that was 100’ off the ground as we started 40’ up a ramp on a large flake.”

If you get on this line, and veer right, and miss the bolted anchor stations, you are probably climbing - DIM (Richard in Mouth)

Exit: Three rappels of 35-meter each to the ground. Or continue on the Shakuntala route and top out.

FFA: Sunny Jamshedji, Murali Manja, Karthik Vijayakumar, and Narayan Pai

Body-wide chimney! The space between both the boulders provides this opportunity to experience this unique style of climbing and protected at that!

The crux involves topping out.

Route by Shyam Krishnakumar & Sohan. FA: Kiran Kallur. Nov 9th, 2022.

200 meters (100 meters of technical climbing, 100 meters of lower 5th class scramble)

An extremely bold route in the old school style. A blog by Aloke Surin provided the original inkling about the existence of this route.

Faruk led this extremely runout and now notorious line, as apparently guided to by Guruprasad, using Pitons and basic gear (climbing in ‘Hunter Shoes’).

The line is extremely difficult to nail down, with due respect to the original FAists. As is the nature of these routes. If you follow the line as indicated, and hit the anchor station bolts, assume you are on DIM Some. Anything to the right of the anchor station bolts, should be considered the DIM route.

Unrepeated for 30 years, until Sunny Jamshedji got on the line, and as these repeats of old school trad-lines go, created the variation Dim Some.

FA: Faruk Kariyaniya, Aloke Surin, Franklyn, Guruprasad, 1989

Fist/Offwidth

Located about 50-odd meters immediate east of Stalin’s farm.

To access, walk past the fences and turn east when you encounter a goat-trail, hike up, and then south when you hit the high boulders. The access hike is less than 400 meters long.

Through the squeeze chimney, protect high up (if you don’t have wider gear than that), and out of the offwidth & squeeze and exit right or left.

Rack: Upto #4 cam (The hand-sized cams work best).

Top-Anchor: Cracks to the immediate left, or through the easier exit to the right, trees, further behind.

FKA: Amrit Appaden supported by Shresth Mohan, May 14th, 2022.

Crack and Slab

Immediately left of Shyam’s Line. Exciting and exposed grade appropriate route.

Left of the BTW crack, starts as a crack radiating right to left, and then a seemingly blank slab, a seam widening into finger, then the hand crack for next solid protection, and then angle left over the exposed slab to the top out past the upper diagonal crack.

Three cruces. One, making the slab move on the crimps and reaching the jug, two, the move through the finger crack to the hand crack, and then the final third over the blank slab to the left of the crack to the next diagonal crack.

A single piton about 15 odd feet up, just after the slab section.

Facing: West

Rack: Small- to mid-sized nuts, finger-, and hand-size pieces. Can be entirely led on nuts and hexes.

Anchor: Hand to fist sized pieces.

Natural Anchor: None

Exit: Off of a tree.

Route credit and FA: Sohan with support from Nikhil Fernandes and Akshay KV, on the 8th of Sep ,2021.

Routes Monu's Backyard, Easy Peasy, & JugAah'D are what you come across as you hike towards the crag from the school. These are perfect warmups before the stiffer 5.10 routes further along the crag and can be climbed very quickly. As of mid-2018, the top anchors were stolen.

Monu’s Backyard starts along a crack, requiring a half mantle to get onto the slab. The top anchors are shared with Route Easy Peasy.

Route credit: Sohan Pavuluri, Alok Tater, Satish Venkatchaliah, Srivats, Vipin Kumar, Satnam Singh & Abhijit Sriramreddy. FFA, Satnam Singh

Two horizontal cracks to protect.

From the left of the face, traverse right along the first lower crack, protect with finger sized cams or tricams, and then from the big jug to the second crack, and then over the lip of the mild roof.

Facing: West

Rack: Finger sized cams/Tricams, #/2 or #3 cam.

Anchor: Tree and branches (for directional). Long anchor. Or use the rope itself.

Natural Anchor: Tree

FA: Sohan, April 2021

Easy face/slab climb with good features.

Route credit: Sohan Pavuluri, Alok Tater, Satish Venkatchaliah, Srivats, Vipin Kumar, Satnam Singh & Abhijit Sriramreddy. FFA, Sohan Pavuluri

The high-boulder between the King Swing and the Cola-Berry boulder. is one of the tallest high-boulders around. There are four lines, here.

To access, hike up to the King Swing boulder, and through the chimneys between that and the Mango Seed boulder.

This chimney is infact the gap between this boulder and the Cola-Berry boulder.

The bolted line runs along the outside edge of the chimney. Still chimney climbing.

A beehive in May of 2022. There seems to be in- and out-season for the hive.

Route and FA by Sohan (LR Solo). 21st October, 2022

Gear needed. Doubles of .5, .75, #1 & #2.

P1: 5.8G. 45 meters, 3 + 2 bolts. The takeoff on the block of rock, traverse right, and get onto the crack. If you have a tag line, exit from the station here. The route was partially ground up ascent by me. Tentative initial attempts at ground up climbing in early 2017. The rest of the route was rap bolted, hence the odd length of the route.

P2: 5.5. 20 meters. 0 + 0 bolts. Climb the easy slab, over the ridge, and get into a bucket on the other side, and belay your partner over, and walk off.

Route credit: Sohan Pavuluri & Narayan Pai. FFA, Poonacha Medapa.

Crack and Slab

From the Iron & Argon area, turn right, behind the King Swing high boulder, and walk up for another 50-60 meters.

Watch, as you approach the base. Ditches on the either side of the base just below the crack.

For the first eight feet and the last six-odd feet, not much of protection. The seam is too small for average sized pieces.

Crux is the top-out on the slab after protecting the double-finger sized crack.

Rack: Double finger sized pieces and below, small or micro-nuts.

Anchor: Either sling the slabs of rock lying atop or use the cracks below them. Hand-sized pieces or below.

Exit: Take a 10-foot leave-behind cordage or rope. And back up the TATs currently left behind with a maillon. No walk-off.

FA: Amrit Appaden & Sonakshi Mittal. July 20th, 2022.

The prominent cracked boulder is about 50-40 feet, depending on which side you look at it from. Sits higher on the down slope.

On a family camping trip with kids, decided to check out Paul’s long pending desire to get on top of this high ball, via the chimney.

The route starts from the east of the chimney, and cuts diagonally across in the chimney to the west.

A good thin ledge to use that goes diagonally. The crux is after the last bolt, unprotected traverse to mantle up to the top.

Exit: Currently, the exit it by the way of slinging a large boulder. Will need 20 feet of cordage or webbing.

FFA: Ground up onsight by Sohan, supported by Paul Rosolie & Gowri Varanashi

Finger Crack

The scratch of a finger crack going from left to right to the left of this boulder.

When we initially came across this line, it looked simple enough to get on and knock-off, as we would call our quick ascents. But then, the mud-filled crack was not as easy it had seemed from the ground.

Double-finger and smaller sizes protect the crack, and after the bonsai, the crack narrows to less than the finger-sized seam. And disappears altogether.

Attempting to connect to the crack above through the six-feet of face seems rather stiff. Additionally, the crack formed by the overlapping rock is not confidence inspiring. But a potential line for someone capable of pulling of hard grades and with a solid temperament to connect the two cracks.

Rack: Double-finger sized cams and below. Doubles of them. If top-roping, then micro-nuts or micro-cams.

Exit: Down-climb to the shoots growing out of the bonsai, ghost-knot it and rap- off. Complicated exit. Or connect to the upper crack through free or aid- climbing and traverse right to the top of Twig-Shower route.

Far left corner crack. Currently, a medium Lost Arrow piton is placed where there is nothing else to protect with.

Gear needed, all the way upto #4 cams. Smallest Ball-nuts could be useful, in the lower half.

Per Griffin: “Start by climbing up the chockstone boulder and mantling up to a ledge. Follow the seam on the face, up to where the corner crack narrows. We are hoping to place a bolt here, as the only way I found to protect this part, and avoid a potential ground/ledge fall is with a tipped out #6, and that micro-wire you never wanted to use.

“Follow the corner crack to the easier ground, then climb up, through and then above the tree to the roof. You could continue straight up the corner would add a number grade or so to the climb, and get rid of some rope drag, but then you would miss out on the fantastic traverse.

“Follow the beautiful hand crack right along the roof on the exposed slab and delicately transition across down onto the corner where the route joins ‘Bungle in the Jungle’ (This is the crux). Traverse along the bottom of the flake and chimney through to the chains above. Serious rope drag on this route, so be sure to extendyour runners.”

Sohan's notes : The route turns sharply to the right after 25 odd meters, and then joins Bungle in the Jungle route and goes straight up through the broken rock after about 30 meters. High possibility of the rope wedging in the cracks where the route turns. Optionally, break up the route into two pitches. Best anchor station, if breaking up the route, is at the point after the traverse, where you have to step onto the lower slab. Takes couple of #3s and a #4 to create a solid three-point anchor. If you only have one #3, you could use #1 or #.75, in the smaller crack where you step off onto the lower slab.

The crux is about 20 feet off the ground, before the corner crack. Crux is largely about finding a good placement after the fixed piton, and before the corner crack. Thereafter, the route is relatively easy. The next crux moment is second half of the traverse, before the route goes through the chimney. Especially for the shorter folks.

Route credit & FFA: Griffin Ernest & Sohan Pavuluri (Mar 2019)

Finger and hand-sized crack

Another 50 meters to the north of the Ball-Rama boulder.

This boulder has two cracks, including this easy one to the right, as you face it from the west. The one to the left (facing north) is more complex.

Jams are not necessary but protect using the cracks. The placements are from not-so-great stances, while the climbing itself is easy. The top out can be heady, as the pieces below are suspect.

Starts as a finger crack, then radiating left briefly as a fist sized crack. The crack below the slab top out is largely a seam, with some potential to protect with small sized cams.

Climbing is largely about trusting your own ability and relying less on the protection.

Facing: West

Rack: Small sized nuts, and a #3-sized BD cam.

Anchor: Long anchoring material needed (two lengths of 20 feet or so of cordage). Boulders and cracks.

Natural anchors: One tree and some boulders wedged between the boulders. And about 40- or 50-foot length of cordage.

FKA: TT Niranjan and Shyam Krishnakumar.

The first route that realized the Jungle set of routes!

Right of the corner crack. Was done ground up in Nov 2018.

Gear needed, all the way upto #4 cams. Where a big bro was used on the initial ascent, a bolt was placed on a subsequent ascent.

Layback on the slab and through the tree growing out of the crack. Crux is transitioning from the crack from below the flake to the chimney, on frictionless slab.

Continues through the two trees, along the finger crack, and then turns slightly right, and straight through the chimney.

Original anchor station was inside the cave to the left of the currently bolted station and is used by the monkeys as the community lavatory. The cave walls are smeared with shit.

The anchor station shared with two other routes and is the start of the ‘Meghaduta’ traverse.

Route credit & FFA: Sohan Pavuluri, Griffin Ernest & Jaqui Ogle (Nov 2018)

Corner Hand-Crack

The crux is the hand-sized corner crack, before the second boulder above. One Red BD cam to protect and run it out or protect above as needed.

The chocked stone at the bottom, the mud and the vegetation in the center of the line cleaned up in June 2021.

Rack: Regular rack with fist sized cams and below.

Anchor: In the crack before the top out.

Natural Anchor: None, or hip belay from top. Boulderable line.

Exit: Walk off from behind.

FKA: Sohan, June 2021

Gear needed, a single rack upto #4 BD cam size. The crack itself is less than 12 odd meters.

You could directly get on the crack, while on the third pitch of the Meghaduta Traverse, but will create severe rope drag.

Best option is to complete the third pitch traverse, and then reverse the traverse to get on the crack.

Crux sections, right at the takeoff into the crack, and then somewhere in the middle.

After topping out, walk another 30 odd feet, and build an anchor in the crack system available.

FFA: Griffin Ernest & Sohan Pavuluri (June 2019)

As you walk along the base to the south, a couple of slabs separated by a channel filled up with mud.

Both sets of the slabs could be protected with gear or from the trees atop them.

Off-Width to Chimney

One of the easiest and a starter off-widths line at Yedumadu. The placements are also from comfortable stances.

Further south from the Crack Jack, after about 50-60 meters. Long crack on the west face.

Starts as a fist crack (for big hands) to hand stacks, and then widens progressively, then to squeeze chimney, and finishes as a full chimney.

Rack: #4, #5, and #6. Bump up the #4 (where needed).

Anchor: Crack that takes fist sized cams and below.

Natural Anchor: Difficult, or long rope anchor to the tree behind

Chimney and Hand crack - Five meters to the left of High Noon.

Starts with a chimney which can be protected with a hand- fist sized piece if you place one deep in the crack. The crux is getting out under the massive boulder wedged in the crack. Jamming into the crack between the boulder and the rock, and transitioning over it with the feet on the face is also the crux for the grade.

Aravind grade, feels like 5.9.

Rack: Fist and hand sized pieces.

Anchor: Cracks and boulders above. Hand and smaller sized cams/tricams.

Natural Anchor: Boulders above, but mildly off by a couple of feet or so, without directional.

FKA: Aravind Selvam, Aug 2017

Located about 30-meters to the north-east of the ‘You or I’ boulder, along the wall facing south-east.

Start on the face, then a 15-feet long hand and finger crack, then a tree to protect to the slabby top-out.

Aesthetic moves through the crack, and then to the tree.

Facing: South

Rack: Finger to hand sized cams (#2 BD Cam)

Anchor: Long anchor to the cracks in the boulder about 15 feet behind. A wedged boulder about five from the edge is suspect.

Natural Anchor: Boulder about 15 feet behind.

First known ascent: Onsighted by Amrit Appaden and Sohan. Feb 2021.

Ten meters to the right of Xeriscape, a long horizontal crack line, running for about 20 meters, and about three to five meters off the ground.

The crux is the take off and the protection is creative. The black patch you see to the left in the image below can be tricky as well. The protection becomes wider towards the end, but the climbing is easier.

Rack: Offset micro nuts to wide cams (#5/6). The start takes small pieces, mid-sized cams for the middle section, and the right side finish takes wide cams.

Anchor: Crack at the end of the line that takes mid-sized cams.

FKA: Amrit Appaden, Sohan, and Shresht. March 28th, 2021

Fairly easy crack. Either highball boulder or trad.

Shares first pitch with Simple Monkey Day.

An old-school Trad line, which translates to largely run out line with occasional placements and no bolts. The crux is a short 30-foot crack (as flakes are known to be called), on the penultimate pitch rated at 5.8. The real crux is the fourth pitch 90-meter line rated at 5.7 with no protection and the crux move that comes up at the 88th meter.

Start of the pitch is the same as that of Mohana and Simple Monkey Day.

First ascent by Luca Grasi, Roberto, KV Mohan and three other Italian climbers (1990).

Finger and hand crack. An old classic.

Do not waste your energy trying to dislodge the 50- or so-kg chocked stone in the crack. Moves, but has not come out in over three decades. If it does, might be interesting to see if the grade changes.

Facing: West

Rack: #3 cams and below.

Anchor: Horizontal crack takes finger sized cams or tricams.

Natural Anchor: Difficult, but possible with half a length static rope.

Trad-line starts on a diagonal seam, that is probably 5.8ish, and after 15-20 feet, the route continues straight, retaining the grade under 5.4-5.5, with sparse protection.

No top anchors. Walk off.

Hard to know what the original line was. Too many options after the diagonal seam.

FA, Gokul G. and Seema Pai

Climb through the funky features in the chimney either using trad gear or by setting a top rope on the two anchor bolts accessed by climbing Burfi and traversing left.

Additional top-ropeable lines could be set up to the right and left of the off-width.

The jagged face to the left (5.8), face to the right of the crack (mid-5.11), stem- chimney to the right (5.6/7). And one further to the right in the Stem-Chimney (5.5).

Use the natural anchors for top rope. Requires long ropes to anchor the boulders and trees at the top. Incomplete bolting in late 2014 here.

Located Just before Sunday Brunch Bolts. Top anchors can be accessed by climbing 2 bolts on Sunday Brunch and Traversing left.

Route credit: Gethna/Keerthi Pais, Pranesh Manchaiah & Team

The route is marked with a 2 at the base of the cliff. 4 hangers along with 2 anchors. Slab climb with fun, delicate moves. You can setup a TR by scrambling up on the left hand side and accessing the anchors.

Climb the arete to the right of the chimney and enjoy some feel good climbing. Belay from the top of the boulder at the base of climb.

A great beginner route or for warming up with crux between 4th and 5th bolt

Just a good long warm-up; spot the rhino horn on the route, and use it!

A route with features that you are unlikely to find anywhere else in Badami! Fun and long.

Slabby start with good holds leading to vertical juggy sequence with small cracks just before the anchor.

Starts about 100 meters to the right of Cicada Uprising

The current route is a tamer version of the original that existed between 1995- 2018.

In 1995, Dinesh Kaigonhalli visited this location on three Sundays to create the route ground-up, machine-bolting as he climbed up. Supported by Shyam Krishnan Narayanan, Ajay Thambe, Ramu Muddappa, and Suma Rao.

The last 80 meters entered into the lore of Bangalore climbing scene. Fatigued from having to carry the drill up, each Sunday, Dini supported by Shyam, decided to finish the last bit in a single push. He put in two bolts along the way, on the 5.7 terrain.

Subsequently, there have been two successful repeats of the original route, both by Ravee Bhat. Any other repeats have involved escaping left through the easier terrain, which goes at 5.4-5.5.

In Aug 2018, Dini and Sunny Jamshedji in the process of rebolting the route, added additional bolts.

Defanged of the original notoriety, the route has seen a dozen plus ascents within the year of the retro bolting.

P1: 5.8G. 6 + 2 bolts. 35 meters • Ends left of a cave. One #3 cam needed. Feels one grade harder than the given grade.

P2: 5.7. 5 + 2 bolts. 38 meters.

Traverse to the runout first bolt, and thereafter, well bolted easy terrain.

P3: 5.6. 3 + 2 bolts. 38 meters

Mild traverse to the right after the third bolt

P4: 5.6. 4 + 2 bolts. 38 meters.

P5: 5.7. 3 + 2 bolts. 38 meters.

Traverse left after the 1st bolt. Largely 5.5 pitch, but for a small section between the 2nd and the 3rd bolt. Then angle left, under cactus to reach the anchors.

P6: 5.6. 4 + 2 bolts. 38 meters.

Up straight and angle right.

P7: 5.7. 3 + 2. 35 meters.

A brilliant pitch. Aesthetic moves. Wakes you up for the climax of this experience called ‘High Lonesome’.

In its original form, P6 & P7 had two bolts. The entire route was equipped with 17 bolts originally.

The crux immediately after standing on a ledge to jug over another ledge, and then a large flake with a crack to the right.

Located between the pile of flakes (to its right) and the tree (about 10-15 feet to the left).

The first bolt is after the crux of the entire route. Either stick clip it or own the grade. The bolts are optimally placed, a heady line for the grade.

FA: Amith BV, August 4th, 2022. Route by Shyam Krishnakumar, Akhil Menon, Sohan

Routes Inspiration and Chai, Comfortably Numb, and Pranic Drilling share bolts till the ledge that starts about 25 odd meters from the base.

Starts immediately left of the gulley and ends back at the P1 -anchors of route Inspiration and Chai.

The route after the ledge feels stiffer than the given grade.

Second pitch merges with route Inspiration and Chai, Inspiration and Chai.

Route credit: Gethna/Keerthi Pais, Pranesh Manchaiah & Team

Shares the bolts with NTR ; the route goes left of the roof. For this line, you could use six of the bolts, avoiding the bolt under the roof that is meant for NTR.

Route credit: Satish Venkatachaliah, Rahul Thomas & Sohan Pavuluri.

FFA, Satish Venkatachaliah. Added Oct 2015.

Extremely flaky.

Heady route with spaced out bolts.

First bolt is 12 meters from the base.

Bolts have been removed after being extremely corroded. This route is no longer bolted as of July 2023

Route by Balaji S. Rajagopal

About 40 feet to the right of the corner cave.

Start has some crimps and smear moves, and then the entire route eases up to 5.6/5.7.

Two ledges define the three sections. Four, two and three bolts on each section.

There is one more anchor station on the roof above the route.

Reaching that will be another 10 additional feet of climbing.

At the top of the route, you could exit right to top out on Varlakonda. A 70-meter rope will allow you to climb the initial lower 5th class and then upper 4th class walk to the ledge and beyond to safety.

First bolt is shared with Ironman.

Starts at the first bolt of the right-side route, Ironman, and after six more bolts, shares the anchors of the Iron Man .

Goes left of the big bucket.

Feb 2016. FA, Seema Pai.

Roof after the first bolt is NOT the crux. Easy, and well protected minor roof.

The crux is sustained 5.8 nature of the slab route. The route has shed rock significantly since first bolted, and the grade has followed in the opposite direction.

Route by Sohan Pavuluri & Narayan Pai, FFA: Gowri Varanashi

15 meters if standing from the ledge. Else, 30 meters.

Four bolts including the first bolt of Hurting Toes, Family Woes.

Reaching the first bolt maybe slightly heady.

Watch for the big flake after the first bolt. The flake will come off one of these days.

If rapping all the way down, a 60-meter rope might fall short by a meter or two on the easy slab.

FA, Nandini K. Mehta.

Old bolts with a fence at the base. Hence currently not safe to climb.

Sit start. Nice little problem on small boulder facing diagonal

Start just left of 'Left Mantle', and pad your way up the slab. Gets easier the more moss you brush off

Stand start middle of Boulder maybe a bit of a warm up

Sit start makes it harder.

Sit start on left side of arete

Conspicuous double arete problem near where the foot track enters the plateau area

SDS from sloper, into chunky rail and up flakes. Alternative descent route.

Big start holds - facing Party Boulders. Pistol squat mantle to slopey dishes