the star
Tuesday March 17, 2009
By GEETHA KRISHNAN

A park for extreme sports will soon be opened in Putrajaya and it will be scoring a number of firsts.

The Putrajaya Challenge Park in the southern part of the city straddles Precincts 5 and 20, covering 46.73ha in Taman Selatan.

Possibly the largest in South-East Asia, it incorporates three key elements designed to give thrill seekers the time of their lives. The RM38mil park is 99% complete and is set to open in June.

Besides extreme sports, the park also hopes to draw those into passive sports like walking and jogging.

Putrajaya Corporation landscape and parks department [...]

The Hot Rock Global Challenge team is here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! If you dont know who they are, please visit their website at http://www.climbhotrock.com

In summary, our hard core hot rock friends are a bunch of climbing enthusiasts who in the famous Big Red Truck BIRT (that has circumvented the globe numerous times) they go from country to country and visit the climbing spots to do some climbing and touring the interesting sights while they are at it.

I heard of Hot Rock some 8 years ago back when it was run by a guy named Stewart who has since retired [...]

Escaping from a a very cold and snowy winter here in the European Alps i decided to book a flight to Kuala Lumpur.

Wondering if there are any possibilities for climbing i discovered the web and i found this informative homepage. I got in touch with the putra climb community and  i was able to find climbing partners too.

Camp5
First i have been in Camp5 together with Zee. Camp5 is a big gym with a lot of possibilities. After some sportive activities we went together with friends of Zee for dinner and to discuss some holiday and – of course – climbing [...]

This is Chapter 1 of Patrick Andre’s series of articles on Bolting and Bolting safety.

First of all – unless you are a bolting guru (and then you do not need to read this article anyway) – I want you to thoroughly read the Bolt Guidance Document from the BMC. This very good article provides the necessary basis to delve into more technical details and some anecdotes of our beloved Malaysia.

The BMC doc talks about various types of bolts used in the market.
In Malaysia the following types are used:
• Expansion Bolt (in the BMC article The Through or Wedge Bolt)
• Chemical Bonded Bolts

While [...]

Fang pointed out an article to me that I found very disturbing and interesting and felt that I wanted to comment on it a little bit more, perhaps to see how people would comment on it in turn.

On the morning of January 2nd 2009, Nick Kaczorowski (left) met with a tragic accident in Grose Valley, Australia, going off route near the top of a climb known as “Bunny Bucket Buttress”. The route was a 270m with a grade 18 (or 6A+ using the French scheme that we use here in Malaysia). The expansion bolt that he was on failed [...]

We had the pleasure of a visit from the Yishun Climbing Community of Singapore last weekend. They had come up on the bus to 1Utama, and then stayed one night at the Madrasah Al Rahman next to the Volleyball Court wall of Batu Caves. They took two dorm rooms with 4 bunk beds each…. one room for the boys and the other for the girls. I had previously gone to check the rooms and made sure of their good condition. They were clean and comfortable and the bathrooms were “resort” style (as Joanna put it) with a door that opens [...]

A weekend after the Charity Climb, Nanyang was full again of climbers doing new and old routes. The usual kings of nanyang, GreenTrekkerz were there in their numbers, setting up hammocks and lazing under the shade of the rocks. There was a good mix of people there, experts like Shang and Shiwen together with newbies and newcomers being thought the ropes and given the run down.

Nanyang is a good place for climbers to go and climb on the weekends because of the crowd gathered there, especially if you a loner and dont have a belay buddy. Plenty of climbers there [...]

The Madrasah Al-Rahman (or Relgious school of Rahman) is situated next to Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, in the section called Volleyball court. This enclosed area has been maintained by the authorities of the madrasah and there are some active construction work going on at present to further improve the facilities there. The place is clean and well looked after, and there is also some prep work at a cave to make it into a restaurant.

The madrasah has rooms to rent for climbers who would like to climb at Volleyball court and surrounding areas of Batu Caves. Accessibility to the [...]

It is a general truism in life that things go in and out of fashion. Crags are no exception to this and some of us have been around long enough to witness the cyclical blessings of the KL based rock climbing public fall on the various walls in Batu Caves. Crags that are in fashion tend to be more well cared for, like any favourite child, they’re livelier, better equipped, brighter and generally less grubby when compared to neglected climbing areas.

Nanyang has been through more ‘deaths’ and revivals than the rest, probably because it is one of the oldest crags [...]

There will be a “Fun Charity Climb” organised by GreenTrekkerz (a voluntary association of friends who have set out to do nature activities) on the 10th and 11th Jan 2009 (Saturday and Sunday) at Nanyang Wall to help raise funds for the Kirtarsh Handicapped And Disabled Children’s Home.

Fun Charity Climb
Location: Nanyang Wall, Batu Caves
Date : 10th and 11th Jan 2009
Time: 11am – 4pm
Fees : RM 20 / pax (All proceeds will go to the charity)

Kirtarsh Handicapped and Disabled Children’s Home
This centre was established in Bukit Beruntung with 2 residents but today, the centre is [...]