22 February 2015

8b+ tradsport by Nico Favresse

Nicolas Favresse, world class in all disciplines from boulder to adventure Bigwall FAs, reports on facebook that he has done the FA, on trad gear, of Ganesh 8b+ in Badami, bolted by Alex Chabot. In total there are close to 200 routes out of which some 15 trad. - It's one of the coolest line I have climbed trad. Its moves are unique and protects fairly well on the horizontal breaks. It would be great to see other people climbing it clean and if the Indian community agrees it would be so cool to free Ganesh from its bolts which seem to me superfluous. The issue for taking the bolts off is that almost none of the Indian climbers have trad gear... For most of them it's already pretty difficult to afford sport climbing equipment... so we have to take that into account.
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