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Rock
Climbing
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Rock
Climbing as an adventure sports that originated in 60's
in
United Kingdom
. Its popularity grew and soon it made its way into
India
almost 15 years ago. Rock Climbing is the test of
strength, balance, concentration, stamina, coordination,
skills and techniques a person possesses. The only
difference between Mountaineering and Rock Climbing is
that of snow and rough weather. |
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The
rocks are almost flat and one has to make ways in the rock using
vertical, horizontal and slanting cracks on the rock surface to
reach to the summit using only hands, feet and rope. Even a
slight mistake can make you fall down but this fear makes this
adventure sport exhilarating. The types of Rock Climbing are,
namely, Rock Climbing Bouldering, Sport Climbing, Peak Bagging,
Free Soloing, Expedition Climbing, Crag Climbing, Wall Climbing
and Alpinism.
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Garhwal offers tremendous opportunities for rock climbers with
equal distribution of rock climbing destinations. The easy availability of good climbing rocks not far
from the city has contributed a lot in the popularity of
rock climbing tours in India. In Garhwal Himalayas there
are many rock climbing places near Dehradun, Dhanaulti,
Uttarkashi and Pauri.
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