Sorry that lately there have been no updates on this site. It is in a way because I have grown tired of being the only one updating it even if we have a list of contributors who are able to log in themselves and add content about their experiences and news. I have received lots of support from friends and strangers online and offline… but for the most part support has been of the lip service variety, and only a few individuals made the effort to contribute anything, and to those few I say thank you very much.

For all those [...]

I have no idea what happened…. but magically, quite beyond my expectation and understanding, the slideshows and embedded videos are suddenly working on the site.

Here I have been cracking my head for weeks…. and all I needed to do was nothing and it works.

I will forever be puzzled and amazed by the capacity of computers to screw you over for unfathomable reasons, and then fix themselves when you are not watching.

They are demons.

But hei….its working now… so I’m happy.

Regards,
putra

Something odd is happening with a recent upgrade that has caused all embedded photo slideshows and videos to stop working. I am trying to get to the bottom of it, so apologies to you who are looking for some pictures.

In the off chance that it is because my own computers are shit, if anyone see’s photos and videos on your computer, please inform me of them. It will assist in the debugging effort.

Thanks and sorry.

Regards,
putra@putraclimb.com

In response to the article “The Dangers and Risks of Haphazard Bolting“, Malaysia’s resident bolting sensei, Patrick Andrey of BlocX and Stretchmarks Asia has decided to lend his time into witting a bit about bolting safety and also a history of bolting in Malaysia and its safety concerns. Pictured left in a not so flattering picture taken by Angeline Yan (Sorry Patrick… I couldnt find any other, you might have seen him prowling Camp5 if you are there often enough,

He shall be doing this in a series of posts separated into chapters for easier reading under the category “Bolts and [...]

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 [...]

Fang, Nat and Zee decided to do a marathon 40 routes in one session at Camp5 last thursday. The routine was at castle wall with their 8 metre routes. We started from the far left and climbed all routes for a given rope, before swapping climber, until we had all done all the routes, and then moving on to the next rope and repeating. It took us close to 3 hours to complete 40 routes. We could have continued to do 50 with ease but Camp5 was closing at 1030opm and that was the end of it.

Admittedly we did really [...]

My rope was showing signs that it was due for a wash when I was climbing with it at Nanyang this weekend. My hands were filthy and it smelt a bit funny too. So back I took it to my place and washed the thing. I found this guide on the internet on washing your rope and I am not sure whether this is the best way or not, but I followed the directions.

I soaked the rope in some soapy water for about an hour and a half and then rinsed the rope with water to waash off the soap [...]

Is there anyone out there who would volunteer to write regarding your experience climbing?

We are in constant search for people who not just climb regularly but also those who are willing to tell others about it.

If you have a group of friends who you go climbing with or perhaps if you are new to climbing and want to share with the community your experiences as a newbee, take up the task to join us and write up your experience for others to read.

The community is growing and it needs your participation. Please contact us if this is something that you [...]

You May notice a funny looking addition on the sidebar and the temporary removal of comments. We are trying out this new widget called Google Friend Connect, which is a social network tool that allows users to join this site with existing OpenId standard logins from other sites like Google, Blogger, Yahoo and AOL.

This little tool enables users to back link to existing social networks. Until recently this included Facebook, but there is an ongoing dispute between Google and Facebook with regards to this.

So for now, we are testing out this new feature from Google as part of a pilot [...]

Thanks All for a Helping Hand.

I have gotten responses from several individuals who have agreed to be authors for PutraClimb. Thanks to you all for the helpful hand. It will be great if there are more volunteers for this effort. I look forward to working with you all.

Lets together create a vibrant climbing community here in Malaysia and make ourselves accessible to our climbing friends from afar.

Let this be a beginning of something GREAT.

Welcome to all of you to PutraClimb.com.

Regards,
putra@putraclimb.com