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De-stress with rock climbing when you feel you have hit a wall
Updated On: 23 March, 2009 09:54 AM IST | | Kasmin Fernandes
Kasmin Fernandes takes on Mumbai's only non-commercial artificial climbing wall
Kasmin Fernandes takes on Mumbai's only non-commercial artificial climbing wall
My hands are sweating. The 5 pm sun is burning down my back, drowning the sea of voices below. "Grab the hold on top with your left hand," says someone. "Raise your right foot," goes another. It sounds easy. Oddly enough, I can't tell left from right! The hand and foot-holds that looked inches away from the ground now appear out of reach. High above the ground, clutching a vertical outdoor wall that resembles a rock-face, my spatial and aural senses are muddled on my first crack at rock climbing. I am at a high school ground in Goregaon, harness strapped on and attached to a safety rope that will prevent me from falling should I let go or miss a step. I reach half way up the wall, and am about to give up when I hear Rahul prompting, "Don't let go. You're almost there."
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