Artificial Rock Climbing

finally after a wait of over 2 years, yesterday i cud go to IMF n try my hands at sports climbing / wall climbing / artificial rock climbing as it is called.

standing at the base of the wall gives u a high.n then u utter the magical words 'climbing' n the ecstasy begins. it felt so good. but 3/4th way up the wall n my body seemed to be giving up. was becoming increasingly difficult to climb n inch further. told the instructor that i want to come down. but he insisted that i complete that leg, the top wasn't too far off n i cud do it. i decided to continue n in the end i did reach the top. phew..

then i came down with the rappling type descend. didn't have the courage to climb the way down the way it shud have been done.by the time i reached down, i was virtually trembling - more so out of excitement i suppose, i cud not even remove the carabiner n the harness properly. was so overjoyed. took me some time to get back to my normal sense.

others present did 2 sets of 2ascends and descends. was motivating. probably some day i'll also be able to do it..

for me its was not that important that i did it only once while others did it so easily... for me it was overcoming the inertia and pushing of the self set boundaries that was important.. also had waited for it for so long..over 2 years since in last year of MBE i came to know about it...

only sad part was that had to lie about it to my parents. i knw they wud not have agreed to it n even if they did, it wud have been a half hearted one. i dont want to hurt them u see, so its better to keep SHUT.

wud love to do it again, properly this time though. both ascend n descend. n multiple sets at that.