Michaël Fuselier's blog

Notre petit trip autour de Mumbai continue. En plus de leur très grande amabilité, les Indiens ont la gentillesse de nous ''driver'' tous les jours.

Nous avons ainsi bartassé 3/4h dans la jungle et bravé tous ses dangers pour dénicher un bloc magnifique.

La préparation du 7th Girivihar Open International Competition a commencé. Florence et moi avons été invités à participer à la compétition qui débutera samedi 23 janvier.

Hier, nous sommes allé voir la gare à l'heure de pointe, à Mumbai, c'est un phénomène hallucinant. A coté, le métro parisien est un petit RER de campagne...

Aujourd'hui, nous avons attaqué la formation des Indiens sur l'équipement. Ça c'est plutôt bien passé, ils apprennent très vite et ne font jamais deux fois la même erreur.

Hampi is really the sanctuary of rock climbing. You can see boulders on 360°, this is an amazing landscape.

Everybody is friendly and curious, it's funny when they ask why we wear those mats for going climbing. Poverty is omnipresent, and we can always see any bare children on the dirty ground.

When you are in Hampi, the time stops, you live slowly. We where at the end of the season, and we had some problems with the heat, I think the best time is between November and January. The granite has plenty of different textures, and you must always pay attention to your skin if you want climb the next day.

Vaibhav, our guide, is an enthusiastic man, who climbs with a real passion, he gave us a good lesson on the true reasons we have to climb.

I've hold two night sessions, within the fabulous landscapes.

(Picture by Evrard Vendenbaum)

I hope that you can go in this paradise before the closing of the site. A geat thanks to the team which I spend a fucking good trip !

Julien

David

Evrard

Liv

Axel

Malik

New day, new spots, and new pictures...

My skin is so bad, but I'm so happy to climb here, that I go until the blood. All the day we meet new people and we climb together on new and classic spots.

David from switzerland in " Goan curner" a classic but so nice bulder.

Two crimps, one good hold to the top, just do the dyno. " I believe, I can fly..."

Evrard Vendenbaum, our cameraman, is so happy to have a look at all those nice boulders...

Here you can climb on crimps, on sloppers, by morning or by night but always on amazing boulders. Ju Nadiras at cosmic cave.

Today was a good day, we found out lots of new problems. We are getting used to the climat: this is not easy, our fingers' skin is hurt. Well anyway, I made a 8a and a 7c flash.

The landscapes are amazing: as movie sets.

bye

Hello,

I'm in Bombai with Julien Nadiras and Axel Ballai. We've just arrived from Geneva, and we'll take a bus this evening to Hampi (about 20 hours to go...).

There is a lot of poor people here, it's crasy to see that. I'll try to give you some news during my trip.