The second edition of the annual climbing competition held on the bouldering wall at Mumbai’s Podar College, happened recently. The wall is built and managed by Girivihar, the city’s oldest mountaineering club. For some of the participants, the event was an ideal warm-up ahead of the west zone competition in surat. the wall is a small one, wrapped around a pillar on the edge of an inner courtyard on the college’s ground floor. participants for the competition were largely from mumbai and pune. as ever in indian climbing, it was a small gathering of the committed. the youngest person to turn up and watch was a small child with mom and dad bringing pram along. the oldest was most likely 92 year-old pio linhares, whose son, franco, is the club’s former president and a regular climber at the wall.
Here are some photos:
juniors
LADIES
AND GENTLEMEN
climbers, cameras and overall view
PEOPLE
results:
men’s final
1. aziz
2. Vicky
3. tuhin
women’s final
1. siddhi
2. mayuri
3. anjali
Juniors (boys’ final)
1. akash
2. sachin
3. bunty
(The author, shyam g menon, is a freelance journalist based in Mumbai. All the photographs herein were taken by the author.)
