Bengaluru crags

About Bengaluru crags

Granite hills around the city: Ramanagara's sport and trad routes, the long slabs of Savandurga and bouldering at Raogudlu and Avathi.

• Sohan PavuluriFounder of the Bangalore Climbing Initiative (BCI)Source: New Lines Magazine
• K.V. MohanPartnered visiting climbers such as Doug Scott and Jean-Francois Hagenmuller on the early hard routes; died in a Himalayan avalanche in 1995 and has a Savandurga route named after himSource: Adventure Wildlife
• Usha RamaiahEarly woman pioneer of Karnataka climbing and a co-founder of the Karnataka Mountaineering AssociationSource: Adventure Wildlife
• Dinesh KSAmong the first Indians to bolt routes, from the late 1980s, and helped set up Bengaluru's first artificial wall in the 1990sSource: Open Magazine
• Pranesh Manchaiah and Gerhard SchaarRan the Bolts for Bangalore project that added dozens of bolted sport routes and trained local climbers to boltSource: Adventure Wildlife
• Keerthi PaisClimbing since 1991; runs Equilibrium Climbing Station, a climbing gym in Bengaluru, and coaches climbers for competitionsSource: Open Magazine
• Todd and Donette SwainVisiting US climbers who put up new routes near Bengaluru in 2019 and on Bansa Hill in 2023, and wrote both trips upSource: American Alpine Journal 2024

Getting there

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Where to stay

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Who to ask

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We name a person here only after they say yes.

Hospitals and emergency

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In an emergency call 112. Roads and hospitals change: check before you travel.

Guidebook and links

• Route databaseRamanagara on theCrag · theCrag
• Route databaseRamanagara · Mountain Project

Weather

The usual season is Nov–Feb.

Yellow months are the usual season. Averages for 2015 to 2024 from the Open-Meteo archive (ERA5), at about 699 m. The rock in the sun can feel much warmer, and in the shade much colder.