We’ve always talked about how different things might have turned out if we had lived in Swiss or Cham, where adventures in the alps lay right at our doorsteps. Living in this concrete jungle has forced climbing to be limited mostly indoors.

Feroz and I picked up the sport 8 and 7 years ago respectively. We started in an environment where many clocked long hours on the wall not solely because it was a fun social activity, but also because there was often that ultimate goal of performing well in competitions. We are still surrounded by that today.

As for me, I’ve always dreamt of heading outside and going on big climbing adventures; yosemite big walls etc. I used to spend my NS and early uni days reading books on big wall techniques and rescue ropeworks. Yes I was a ropegeek, I still am. I was thankful to have had the opportunity to further my studies in Australia where I got to apply those skills on my first multipitch in September 2015. Feroz, on the other hand, started climbing in TPJC in 2011. Like many others in the local scene, he too participated in competitions. However, he too had always wanted to head outdoors but never got the opportunity. In December 2015, after 4 long years, he finally got to climb on rock at Batu Caves, Malaysia, and we ended up doing a multipitch together the very next day.

In 2016, we had our first real ‘Roctrip’ when Feroz flew down to Australia to visit during winter. We clocked in 3 more multis then, my 3rd, 4th and 5th and Feroz’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Those were very early days for both of us and we haven’t looked back since.

Some of the bigger highlights since then was in 2017 when we did a pre-dawn multi in the Glasshouse Mountains Range, QLD, and drove down to Blue Mountains, NSW, for a 9 day roctrip.

Another big highlight was in 2018 when I visited Feroz while he was on exchange in the Netherlands. Drove down to Belgium on 2 weekends to climb on some quality limestone. Lucky, or unlucky for us, it snowed quite substantially on one of those weekends and rocks were covered in snow and ice. Could clearly recall how we wished we had crampons then.

And of course we couldnt leave Europe without experiencing climbing in the french alps! We were thankful to have both had the chance to do our advanced technical alpinism course in Chamonix, mine in winter and Feroz’s in summer 2018. Bigger plans await for 2020 but that will be a story for next time hopefully!

Adventure dosent stop now that I’m back in Singapore after completing my studies. Krabi, being so close to home, has become a happy place for short getaways. We went with an awesome team in early 2019 and left with some pretty epic stories.

And when we dont travel far, we have mini adventures on home soil, at the local choss, i mean crag.

And that’s a wrap! I wish I could put in more details of our epics and adventures, but we decided to keep the first post as a brief summary of why we do what we do. Stay tuned for the next post tho! Feroz will be sharing an epic story of the realisation of a 3 year dream, climbing whats said to be the best 7b multipitch in Thailand and possibly the world!