I Wanna Go Rock Climbing!
I was looking around for some rock climbing destinations close to Chennai. Why rock climbing? Well, it’s completely physical and physical exertion is good. So I started up Google and visited some travel and adventure sites.
I found out that some place called Kambakkam some 100 kilometres North of Chennai had some good rock faces for climbing. The problem was, that’s all I found. There was absolutely no other information about Kambakkam. All the fifteen websites I visited had the same sentence:
Kambakkam at a distance of around 100 km from Chennai provides good climbing in many grades while Hampi in Karnataka has some of the best granite rocks in India providing the climbers ample opportunities to test their skills.
The same thing over and over and over again. Do all travel websites copy paste from each other?!
So, anyway, if you have any information about this tell me. And if you want to come along, you’re welcome. Unless you’re asthmatic or obese.
November 4th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
hey dude,im not asthmatic or obese,i ll come along with you!
November 4th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
but rock climbing only after my semester exams.is that okie???
November 4th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
After our semesters only.
November 5th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Dude, why not do the normal thing, and actually go there and make up your mind about the place. It’s only a hundred kilometres, should take you 2 hours at your über slow pace.
November 5th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
We can’t go there and find a ‘tea kada’ near some mountains with absolutely nothing to get us started. This is India.
Also, I think we need training before we start climbing.
November 5th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
i’ll come if you agree to join me scaling the kanchenjunga.
i heard that some place near Tada on the way to Andhra was good for rock climbing.
November 6th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Kanchenjunga ish nothing. I’ve done it naked with one leg tied to my left nostril and the other to my hair.
November 6th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
We’re talking about rock climbing, not drug induced hallucinations. Go away George.
Uh, Suren, perhaps we should start small.
November 6th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Keep saying that someone might believe it, Z.
And I know of this little ant-hill in my college, want to try? Or do you need equipment and training?
November 7th, 2006 at 7:46 am
I’m talking about serious rock climbing, with safety ropes and pegs and stuff. Not clambering over some boulders.
November 7th, 2006 at 9:44 am
Dude, too many pegs isn’t safe.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Only if you drink them.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
LMAO
idiot george we’re talking about climbing near vertical rock faces. you need equips and training.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
But you have no ekkips. I think chital and wild dog drops pylon and rope at 0.3%, you have a lot of grinding to do. Tell me if you get a SoJ though, I’ll pay for it.
And vertical rock faces are bad places for levelling, I suggest bloody foothills.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Hey dude. Count me in. I always wanted to go rock climbing. Its really cool man.
November 7th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Why? why do you want to risk your life on something that insects and reptiles do for a living?
Man, rock climbing is pointless. unless you are soldier or some search and rescue guy.
A good workout can be done by just walking around chennai and doing some chores, like cleaning your room or something.
November 7th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
@ Vin
Rock climbing is pointless I agree but not monotonous. Its something else - adventurous. I don’t think cleaning one’s room is adventurous. Walking around Chennai is certainly welcoming death with arms wide open. It requires the same amount of gear as for mountain climbing too.
November 7th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Rock climbing will be fun…
November 8th, 2006 at 5:24 am
George, you’re a total n00b. Cliff sniping man! Easy levelling. ‘Ekkips’ indeed. (Btw, anyone else get what he said?)
Vinny, rock climbing is not for a workout, man. If we needed some exercise we’d play FIFA 2006. Like Arun said, it’s an adventure. And it’s fun too. The physical exertion adds to the adventure. Weren’t you always climbing stuff as a child? This is just a bigger scale.
Arun, you made me laugh. Chennai is indeed more dangerous than rock climbing.
November 8th, 2006 at 6:16 am
Cleaning my room is adventurous! I’m willing to give you a chance at it on payment of a just 400 rupees per head, I’ll provide all the gear. Exotic animals, ruined cities, mud flats, mountains. All you could ever want. I’m even willing to hire my brother out as a guide, but that will be 100 rupees per head given to me.
You are responsible for your own lives though, and if anything happens I’m not responsible.
November 8th, 2006 at 10:31 am
I’m not selling my head, thanks.
November 8th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Oh don’t be a spoilsport, it’ll look nice on a stake.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
But I don’t like steak.
November 8th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
23 comments including mine,for this entry?
let’s see how long this goes!
November 8th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
You have to come up with irrelevant comments for that to happen.
Oh yeah, you also have to have a George-type person around.
November 8th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Aah,you have posted another one right there.perhaps,without a doubt,irrelevant comments come up when you post something like this sort.but still,does this particular entry deserve these many comments?
November 8th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
“Does anyone deserve comments?” is what I asked my philosophy professor, who’s a strange fellow who says that “Vande Mataram” is the same as “One day in Mambalam” if you don’t know the meanings for either. He even made some girl, his niece sing it that way. So anyway, does anyone deserve comments? Especially from someone named after something you find on the beach?
November 8th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
That’s Sarin Gopan from my class in college. (Tell him about the gas.)
Sarin, usually there about some 5 or 6 comments. Then George comes in and BOOM! Mini forum in comments section.
November 9th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
i guess “the man frm the jungle” needs to ve some civilization force driven into his hard skull which has some thing, u find on the beachhhh, in plentiful.
November 9th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Well, Vande Mataram and One day in Mambalam sort of get sync. Nice one there. But, Rock climbing ain’t for fatsoes like myself.
Marc, After climbing 10-12 feet, you’ll probably swoon dude. Get some stuff in your body first.
Honestly george, I couldn’t make out what you were trying to say.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
And you never will, you non-game playing weirdo.
Dude, I have good upper body strength. Ask my classmates.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Marc will probably be blown around by the zephyrs his name suggests.
Haha sarin, I have deep space vacuum in my head. I paid a lot for it, so I’m not having you mistake it for sand.
Ah hari, you have not experienced the MMORPG surge of the 200x’s
November 9th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
He hasn’t experienced any surge.
November 10th, 2006 at 6:47 am
I experienced a power surge once. It destroyed my monitor. Then I bought a UPS.
November 10th, 2006 at 7:47 am
Power surges usually destroy motherboards. Everything around you is weird, George.
November 10th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Tell my dad that. He was complaining about it so much he finally replaced the monitor and bought a new computer.
November 10th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Why did he replace the monitor if he was buying a new computer?
November 10th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
So that we now have two computers.
November 10th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Well, euler does get me more points so I’m not complaining.
November 10th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Who’s he? Some friend of yours?
November 10th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Some random guy I met on a forum.
November 10th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Euler it seems. So still planning on going rock climbing? Maybe some Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Malmsteen would be appropriate while you’re doing your stuff.
November 10th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
ewwww.. maiden is nice for working out, along with godsmack, rhapsody, disturbed and stuff like that.
for climbing mountains you gotta have survivor!
Face to face, out in the heat
Hanging tough, staying hungry…
which reminds me, i need food.
November 10th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Someone didn’t get the pun. Anyways, you have as much hanging tough physical effort every year as a hibernating bear has every winter.
November 10th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
That lame pun was meant to be ignored.
For rock climbing, you need Aqua. If you make it to the top alive with that playing, it shows you have real strength.
Hey, I want food too. Give me!
November 12th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Thats the best joke I have heard all day!
November 12th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
You’re fat blob that will die of obesity in a few years so you shouldn’t really be laughing. Like I said, ask my classmates.
November 12th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
marc doing pull ups doesn’t confirm you have upper body strength. you need to target specific muscles, go the gym man.
November 13th, 2006 at 7:20 am
I meant above average strength. Gym is too monotonous and mechanical.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:50 am
above average just isn’t good enough. you simply get tired and let go after few meters itself.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:53 am
We’ll have to test that theory out. I have lesser body mass to support, you forget.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Stop talking and do it already, yer lazy bums.
November 13th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
After the exams, you damn arts student!
November 18th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Well he has good upper body strength… thats true…
November 18th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
There ya go, you skeptics!
November 19th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
How much did you pay Vinod? I’ll say it too if you’ll pay me.
November 19th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
That was straight from the heart, baby!
George, I’m arm wrestling you next time we meet.
November 19th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
I always did wonder about your relationship with Vinod.
@arm wrestling: HAHA! Take a couple of days off, and then read that again, and compare it to what you would have said in the 7th standard.
November 19th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
thoo @ marc
pathu push up seyya vakku illai, arm wrestling kekudha unakku?
November 20th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Recall how I drew with Sid Adam in school?
November 20th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
thats all you can say, thats all you can say.
anyway, we/you should go and inquire about the facilities as soon as your exams end. we shall have climbed rock by the dawn of the new year.
November 20th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Yes indeed. But I warn you, my contacts are limited in these matters so you go find some info too.
November 21st, 2006 at 10:27 am
My contacts are limited too, I can only wear them while awake and for 8 hours at a stretch.
You guys will never get round to this with your laziness. Up and at ‘em, lazy bums.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:46 pm
old joke george, it used to be funny in its day but not now.
i don’t know anyone either.
November 21st, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Heh, I wasn’t aware. I’ve had mine only a year now
That’s just awesome. Why do you need to know someone to climb a freaking rock?
November 21st, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Are you Superhuman, George?
November 21st, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Sub-human, actually.
You can’t just climb random rocks, George. You need training and equipment as you are well aware.
It’s not even a very good joke George. I’ve used contact lenses for 4 years now.
November 22nd, 2006 at 10:08 am
Yeah. You know what, George? We’re going to perform stunts too. Exactly like in ‘Vertical limit’ but there’d no snow and we’ll be bruised all over and Marc will not cause he has a good ‘upper body strength’.
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Haha Arun, haha.
Marc, sometimes I wonder if all you do is sit and talk about what you’re going to do.
November 22nd, 2006 at 5:31 pm
ahahaha.. sub-human.
now its exam time georgus, can’t get any work done now.
November 22nd, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Ah, okay. Just see, if you guys don’t ever get round to this, I’ll make sure your kids find about this.
November 24th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
You should be more worried about your kids finding out all the stuff you did.
It’d easy for you to say I don’t act on things but you see I study in an engineering college. Enough said.
November 24th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
If you say so, well, atleast you have company then.
November 24th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
tut, tut, tut marcus that shouldn’t be your excuse for everything.
November 25th, 2006 at 7:51 am
You’re in Anna Univ, what do you know?
November 25th, 2006 at 10:56 am
tut, tut, tut marcus that shouldn’t be your excuse for everything.
November 25th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Couldn’t think of a comeback for that, so you repeat what you just said. Typical Anna University.
November 25th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
tut, tut, tut, marcus that shouldn’t be your excuse for everything.
November 26th, 2006 at 9:13 am
See what I mean? You’re behaving like your classmates now!
November 27th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
not true, my classmates wouldn’t understand whats going on. besides they would have replied with a mugged up portion from some text book.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Is this a blog or a chat screen? Or scrap book perhaps???
Marc.. your blog is a good replacement for orkut.
wiyoats.
Sundar.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Are you a human or a mechanical pink bunny? Or a round mineral-based energy drink?!
You’re a good replacement for Barney, here’s your costume. You start work today.
Because they’re easy to digest, okay? OKAY?!
November 28th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Also, I forgot to sign my name at the end for the sake of redundancy because I know that my name is already displayed above my comment.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
You just want to reach 100 comments, don’t you? Admit it.
Yes, Sundar. 83 comments for a single blog post, all by the same group of people, is odd.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
still planning on rock climbing?
March 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Yes. Definitely. In these summer hols if possible.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Where? Where? Where?
March 5th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Dunno. Suren bumped it.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
indeed, if possible…
July 1st, 2007 at 2:44 am
Someone emailed me about this post but it was in spam and I deleted it accidentally.
Damn, that makes this the 90th comment.
July 1st, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Okay, this is bad. Even I don’t understand what was going in #82.
July 1st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Ohhh! Why oats. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Oh shit. Also, suren’s tut tut tut is super hilarious!
July 1st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I think the word you’re looking for is ‘retarded’.
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
hilarious, absolutely hilarious.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
95
February 7th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I will be in Channai for some days in february. Does anyone want to go climbing to Kambakkan? Or do you have any information how to find it, some topos… anything?
My e-mail:igaratzafu@yahoo.es
Thanks
February 7th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I will be in Channai for few days in february. I would like to go climbing in Kambakkan. Does anyone wanna come? Or do you have information of hoe to reach, some topos…
My email address is: igaratzafu@yahoo.es
Any information is welcomed!
November 20th, 2008 at 11:18 am
So guys, did you finally go rock climbing????
November 20th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Thanks for bumping up a 2 year old post. And no, we didn’t.
November 24th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Hi Guys,
Incase you guys havent gone to kambakkam as yet, it is a reserve forest area. It would be best if you enquire/search online about TADA FALLS/TADA. People around there (except the cops at a police station around the area) dont know KAMBAKKAM. Its on the way to Srikalahasti from chennai. Take the Red Hills road from chennai… I remember a small village called ‘pudi’ a few kms before that…
November 24th, 2008 at 10:36 am
yeah… i know its an old post… however juz wanted to find out if you guys really made it up after so much of discussions……
November 24th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
There is like 1 place in the entire city and eventually we lost interest.
November 25th, 2008 at 9:28 am
well… you can try going to munnar.. even though it takes much time…. or kodai were they would let you go trekkin’….. munnar is a fantastic place though
November 25th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Trekking is different. And we did that in Connor. Kindof.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Cool……