About this guide
Climbing in India is a free guide to outdoor climbing in the country. It has nothing to sell.
Who builds it
The guide is built and maintained by Team BoulderBox, a climbing gym in Delhi. We made it because we were asked the same questions every week: where can I climb outside, how do I get there, and who do I ask. The answers were spread over old blogs, forums and people's phones.
It sits on its own address, away from the gym's website, because it is for every climber and every gym in India. One of our founders, Yaduraj Bhageria, wrote the Sethan guidebook, and the rest of the team have climbed at most of the major areas.
Where the information comes from
- The list has 66 areas with 112 links to guidebooks, topos, route databases and articles. We opened each link before we added it.
- Travel notes come from public sources and from climbers who have made the trip. We show a note only after someone on the team has checked it, and each note names its source.
- We name a local person only after that person says yes.
- Road distances are from the nearest big city (New Delhi, Leh, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad or Guwahati), worked out on OpenStreetMap roads with the OSRM router. A road can be closed in winter or after rain, so check before you travel.
- The map outline is from Natural Earth, and shows India's official borders. The weather numbers are averages for 2015 to 2024 from the Open-Meteo archive.
Photos
Each photo names who took it, on the area page. Some photos are from Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons licence, and their caption links to the file and its licence. If a photo is yours and you want it changed or removed, write to us.
Credit
Climbing areas are built by the people who find, clean and bolt the rock, and by the villages that welcome climbers. We try to name them, local and visiting, with equal weight. If we missed someone, tell us.
Send a correction
Roads close, buses stop and prices change. If something here is wrong or old, write to info@boulderbox.in. Tell us the area and what changed. We read every message.
A word on risk
Climbing can injure or kill you. This guide is information, not instruction, and it can be out of date. You are responsible for your own decisions on the rock.