Rapelling , Belaying , Jummaring and the knotty Knots


Once the breakfast was over, all the rope members moved to the rock faces where the climbing and rapell down exercises were to be done.
My rope had 6 members ;
Hukum Singh Bist -The Joshimath Boy in the Indian Army
Sandeep Singh Chauhan - The rifelmen from Indian Army,
Viral Shah - The MBA Aspirtant from Rajkot,
Hritwik- The Aeronautival Engineering in the making from Pune,
David John Macallum- Java,Perl Expert from S. Africa residing in U.K.
Jogendra Yadvendu - Yours Truly.
Each rope had a rope instructor .The rope instructors were well experienced in the art of rockclimbing and were veterans in mountaineering.
Initially, the rope instructor used to put on his harness, tie many short slings arround his shoulders with multiple carabiners hanging arround the tape sling. With an array of rock pittons and friends he would start climbing o n a steep wall of rugged rock. At every 10 feet, he would fix the Rock Pittons .
Once he was on the top of the rock face , he would anchor himself. Later on our team members shall clim one by one . The experience of climbing the rock was an experience out of the word. The elemnet of fright wasd always there even when we knew that we were anchored to the rope.
The boys waiting at the base of the rock would practise various types of Knots and also the drill language of rock climbing.

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