{"id":10555,"date":"2025-12-21T01:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:57:44","slug":"andhra-pradesh-tourisms-1st-ever-bouldering-festival-climbing-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/?p=10555","title":{"rendered":"ANDHRA PRADESH TOURISM&#8217;S 1ST EVER BOULDERING FESTIVAL &amp; CLIMBING CUP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andhra Pradesh Tourism Minister Lends Full Support for Kangundi Bouldering Festival &amp; Climbing Cup<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andhra-Pradesh-Tourism-Minister-Kandual-Durgesh-discussing-Kangundi-Bouldering-Festival-Jan-2026-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andhra-Pradesh-Tourism-Minister-Kandual-Durgesh-discussing-Kangundi-Bouldering-Festival-Jan-2026-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andhra-Pradesh-Tourism-Minister-Kandual-Durgesh-discussing-Kangundi-Bouldering-Festival-Jan-2026-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andhra-Pradesh-Tourism-Minister-Kandual-Durgesh-discussing-Kangundi-Bouldering-Festival-Jan-2026-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andhra-Pradesh-Tourism-Minister-Kandual-Durgesh-discussing-Kangundi-Bouldering-Festival-Jan-2026.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Hon&#8217;ble Tourism Minister of Andhra Pradesh discussing Kangundi Bouldering Festival &amp; Climbing Cup 2026 <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/srajkpm\/?hl=en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/srajkpm\/?hl=en\">Shri Rajasekhar<\/a> Chairman APEWIDC and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saisudha251\/?hl=en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saisudha251\/?hl=en\">Smt Sai Sudha<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/tadekam.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tadekam.com\/\">Mahavatar Babaji TadEkam Foundation <\/a>visited the office of Hon&#8217;ble Tourism Minister of Andhra Pradesh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kandula_durgesh_official\/?hl=en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kandula_durgesh_official\/?hl=en\">Shri Kandula Durgesh<\/a> Garu to discuss the details of Kangundi Bouldering Festival and Climbing Cup 2026. They thanked him for his support and invited the Hon&#8217;ble Minister to the Festival, which he kindly accepted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andhra-Pradesh-Tourism-Minister-Kandual-Durgesh-promoting-Kangundi-Bouldering-Festival-Jan-2026-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andhra-Pradesh-Tourism-Minister-Kandual-Durgesh-promoting-Kangundi-Bouldering-Festival-Jan-2026-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andhra-Pradesh-Tourism-Minister-Kandual-Durgesh-promoting-Kangundi-Bouldering-Festival-Jan-2026.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Hon&#8217;ble Tourism Minister of Andhra Pradesh Shri Kandula Durgesh Garu promoting the Kangundi Bouldering Festival and Kangundi Climbing Cup 6th to 10th January 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hon&#8217;ble Minister has provided all requisite support to Regional Tourism Officer Tirupati Dr Ramana Prasad, Collector Chittoor Shri Sumit Kumar, IAS and Project Director of Kuppam Area Development Authority Shri Vikas Marmat, IAS for the festival. These officials in-turn have provided full support to TadEkam and to the people of Kangundi for the successful conduct of Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s first ever bouldering festival and climbing cup. This collaborate effort under Hon&#8217;ble Chief Minister&#8217;s paradigm P4 Strategy will surely put Kangundi &#8211; Kuppam on the World Tourism Maps. TadEkam is also working to get Indian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/indmount?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&amp;igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/indmount?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&amp;igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==\">Mountaineering Federation<\/a> to recognize Kangundi &#8211; Kuppam as India&#8217;s newest climbing site and to help in judging the Kangundi Climbing Cup Competition being held on 8th and 9th January 2026.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon&#8217;ble Tourism Minister of Andhra Pradesh Shri Kandula Durgesh Garu discussing Kangundi Bouldering Festival and Climbing Cup 2026 with with Shri Rajasekhar Chairman APEWIDC and Smt Sai Sudha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,80],"tags":[93,95,20,117,114,119,118,107,143,146,144,116],"class_list":["post-10555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exploration-blogs","category-kangundi-blogs","tag-climbing","tag-kuppam","tag-adventure","tag-adventuretourism","tag-bouldering-2","tag-boulders-2","tag-inselberg-2","tag-kangundi-2","tag-kangundi-bouldering-festival","tag-kangundi-climbing-cup","tag-kangundi-shivling","tag-rockclimbing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10558,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions\/10558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}