Bouldering is a growing subculture for adventure enthusiasts in India

As sport climbing makes its debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics, it was only a matter of time till bouldering found its place in the sun, say enthusiasts of the subculture

It’s a little after 9 pm, and Praveen CM has just wrapped up for the day after demonstrating how to climb a 20-storey building. His “students” are about 50 commandos of the National Security Guard.

Praveen, 32, is neither a man in uniform nor is he an evacuation expert by profession. “They (the commandos) were using poles to scale buildings, or helicopters for a top-down approach. This training is to help them be better climbers in case of emergencies,” he explains. Praveen has also worked with the Kolkata Police on similar lines.

When five schoolboys were trapped without food and