It’s all about climbing. Good to be back in Nepal.

This is my 4^th time in this amazing country. I don’t really know why but the place, people and of course climbing just make me to come back here twice a year. This time I only have 2 weeks. Better than nothing.

My plan as always is to see at least one new place while I’m here. Well, not happened yet and I’ve been here now already for a week. So that’s the plan for the upcoming week, though I’m not too sure it’ll happen even then. Or maybe I just go to a new bar, that counts too!

The first week was all about climbing and meeting friends. I arrived here from Sumatra with sleepy eyes and got my old room back at Sweet Dreams. Feels like coming home J The next day I forced Babu to go “indoor” (indoor style walls but it’s outdoors) climbing with me at Astrex. Funny how fast you start to suck at climbing, a break of 6 weeks made me struggle badly at 6b routes on top rope. Shame on me. But that was just warm up. The next day I jumped to a minibus and went to Bimal Nagar with Dhurba.

I just love that place. Amazing wall next to a river, great multi-pitches for a shitty climber like me and if you’re lucky and the day is clear, at the top you’ll get rewarded by a breath taking view of the Himalayan range.

Climbing with Dhurba is fantastic, he wakes up early, is fast & reliable and there’s good laughs. We climbed 2,5 days in the Bimal Nagar main wall, did 4 multi-pitches and loads of short routes. We tried to finish one multi-pitch in one hour, including coming down. We made it up in one hour but the only option to fit coming down to the hour would have been jumping. Pfff... Next time...

Dhurba trying out a new route, 7a+ 

On the 3^rd day we moved on to a new route near the Siddha Cave in the hills between Bimal Nagar and Bandipur. That was my 4^th day of climbing and I really started to feel it everywhere. Especially as I haven’t done any kind of sporty activities in the last month. Diving & beer drinking don’t really keep u fit… Anyways, the new route was quite demanding and to be honest I was quite happy it was only 2 pitches.

Afterwards we hiked up to Bandipur with all the equipment. That was a long & steep 1,5 h trek with the heavy bags. I stayed there 2 nights just relaxing and enjoying the silence. And silence it for sure was, as electricity was off every evening, I finished my book in a day and the laptop broke so I couldn’t even watch a movie. So after 2 nights I jumped to bus again and came back to KTM to find a macbook doctor and yes, I found a good one! Baby works again J

Bandipur

Next weekend is Nepalese new year so that’ll be a bash I hope. Other plan is to see a the new place, hopefully go to Nagarkot or Hattiban for some more climbing and otherwise just hang in Kathmandu.