Basic Mountaineering Course

As long as I can remember I have had a thing for mountains which goes beyond the love for gear.

Last year I signed up for the Basic Moutaineering Course (BMC) from Himalayan Mountaineering Institude, Darjeelign. The waiting period for this is almost a year and its a very challenging course.

Mentally I am prepared for this course, by my physical situation is not as good. After the injury in the right-knee in March 2024, and the right-shoulder injury couple of weeks ago, training physically has been rather challenging. I work with my physiotherapist to work around the injuries and I am almost 80% recovered.

Its a challenge, but I am hopeful.

Zig

I've loved the idea of Zig ever since I heard about it, however there are other things to do and I could not get to learning it. Finally, this week, along with an ex-colleague of mine I have started to learn Zig. I plan to complete the Proto-Hakcers Challenges using Zig.

I believe this will be a good-enough starting point for this.

Moving to Bangalore, etc

I have since moved to Bangalore. A LOT of my friends stay here and it has been an amazing 1 month here already.

Now-page

I now have a now-page. I have jerry-rigged the pelican templates to use the tag page as a now-page.

This allows to post as many (or as few) now updates and the system takes care of the rest for me. It is quite nice.