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  Alpine walls of Chongor  There are partnerships in climbing that feel engineered—built on convenience, proximity, or shared ambition. And then there are those that evolve more organically, forged over years of shared exposure, risk, and trust. My climbing life with my brother, Spandan Sanyal, belongs firmly to the latter. Ours is not just a record of ascents, but a slow accumulation of days where movement, fear, and decision-making aligned across terrain that demanded everything we had. It began, in many ways, on 20 September 2017 , on the Mahalaya route. A long line— 550 meters, TD, 6a+ —that forced us to reconcile with scale. We were younger then, but already drawn to routes that required more than physical ability. Mahalaya wasn’t simply about climbing; it was about managing space, exposure, and fatigue. The rock demanded precision, especially in the harder sections, but what stayed with us was the continuity—the sense that once committed, retreat dissolved into irrelevan...

TNF_India_Expedition_2019 There is a tendency in climbing to separate disciplines too cleanly. Bouldering is power. Sport climbing is endurance. Alpine climbing is commitment. Big walls are logistics. These distinctions are useful for training, for conversation, and for classification. But on the wall itself—especially on new ground—they begin to dissolve. A hard move above gear does not belong to a category. It belongs to a moment. A long day at altitude does not resemble a discipline; it becomes a sequence of decisions. What matters is not whether a climb is labeled alpine, trad, or free—it is whether the climber can move, judge, and commit under the conditions presented. My own progression has been an attempt to bring these disciplines together—not as separate skills, but as a coherent method . Two alpine trad first ascents in the Indian Himalaya— Mahalaya and a newer route on Chonghor—have become the foundation for that method. They are not endpoints. They are early tests. Mahalay...

 The walls of Chongor    Rehab Line Wall Rakchham is located in the Sangla valley, 11 km before Chitkul, on the banks of Baspa River. It has emerged as a popular tourist destination over the last 10 years, and has become an attractive place on the Kinnaur Spiti circuit for adventurous and enthusiastic tourists. Rakchham offers some of the best granite climbing in the world. This place offers all the different forms of rock climbing of the very highest quality, the boulders, cliffs, and bigger walls provide ample opportunity to the intrepid climber to create lines of great quality and difficulty. In the previous posts, we delved deeper into the great climbing the valley has to offer., and shared our experience on these amazing climbs. in this post we share our experience of exploring and climbing on the amazing alpine walls of the Chongor  a.k.a Rakchham plateau The best alpine rock climbs in the valley lie above Rakchham village. A short approach leads to Chongor, a ...

Bouldering is the premier venue for pushing the absolute limit of free climbing  Sugar Fish Fb 8B+ ✅   After the last season's project with Bernd Zangerl, Guilliano Cameronni and Melislisa Le neve the psych was high and we invested more time for training, from January to April we worked at a climbing gym as coach and route setter and as the summer approaches headed up to the mountains. this year the motivation was high for some really hard and high quality lines. Rakchham harbours world class bouldering and climbing, so it was our main focus of the year. We reached Rakchham around April and immediately started working and trying the test pieces. While climbing in Rakchham we had to make a few breaks as we have to go to Manali for doing some bouldering and climbing workshops for a few weeks, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise as it provided some important phases to recover and rejuvenate which is so important while projecting at your limit. This year turned out to be ...