Jyoti Raj (original) (raw)
Jyoti Raj is an Indian free solo climber from Chitradurga, Karnataka. Known as "Kothi Raju" or "Monkey King", Raj is famous for scaling the Chitradurga Fort without safety harnesses. He does not climb for sports, but to entertain the visitors to the fort. He is also the only person to have scaled Karnataka's highest waterfall, the 830-foot Jog falls, climbing against the flow. On 13 September 2013, he free soloed the clock tower at Moorusavir Math in Hubli in just over 15 minutes. He did not use any harness, but used chalk for grip.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Jyoti Raj is an Indian free solo climber from Chitradurga, Karnataka. Known as "Kothi Raju" or "Monkey King", Raj is famous for scaling the Chitradurga Fort without safety harnesses. He does not climb for sports, but to entertain the visitors to the fort. He is also the only person to have scaled Karnataka's highest waterfall, the 830-foot Jog falls, climbing against the flow. On 13 September 2013, he free soloed the clock tower at Moorusavir Math in Hubli in just over 15 minutes. He did not use any harness, but used chalk for grip. He made his debut as an actor in Sandalwood with the 2014 film Jyothi aliyas Kothiraja. He has been called upon numerous times to rescue or retrieve the bodies of people who have fallen down Jog Falls, and on a rescue operation in 2018 he got stuck in a gorge overnight. (en) |
| dbo:alias | Kothi Raj, Monkey man (en) |
| dbo:birthDate | 1988-05-17 (xsd:date) |
| dbo:birthYear | 1988-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
| dbo:occupation | dbr:Jyoti_Raj__PersonFunction__1 |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | https://archive.today/20140411193603/http:/www.itechspecial.com/2014/04/film-to-be-made-on-spiderman-of.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/5894354/Video-Indian-Spiderman-entertains-tourists-at-ancient-fort.html |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 39240198 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 4726 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1072155367 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Hubli dbc:Living_people dbc:Indian_rock_climbers dbc:Sportspeople_from_Karnataka dbc:1988_births dbc:People_from_Chitradurga dbr:Cinema_of_Karnataka dbc:Free_soloists dbc:Indian_stunt_performers dbr:Solo_climbing dbr:Chitradurga dbr:Chitradurga_Fort dbr:Jog_Falls dbr:Karnataka dbr:Jog_falls |
| dbp:birthDate | 1988-05-17 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:birthPlace | Theni, india (en) |
| dbp:knownFor | Scaling walls (en) |
| dbp:name | Jyoti Raj (en) |
| dbp:nationality | Indian (en) |
| dbp:occupation | Climber (en) |
| dbp:otherNames | Kothi Raj, Monkey man (en) |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Authority_control dbt:Infobox_person dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description dbt:Use_Indian_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:India-sport-bio-stub |
| dct:subject | dbc:Living_people dbc:Indian_rock_climbers dbc:Sportspeople_from_Karnataka dbc:1988_births dbc:People_from_Chitradurga dbc:Free_soloists dbc:Indian_stunt_performers |
| rdf:type | owl:Thing foaf:Person dbo:Person dul:NaturalPerson wikidata:Q19088 wikidata:Q215627 wikidata:Q5 wikidata:Q729 dbo:Animal dbo:Eukaryote dbo:Species schema:Person |
| rdfs:comment | Jyoti Raj is an Indian free solo climber from Chitradurga, Karnataka. Known as "Kothi Raju" or "Monkey King", Raj is famous for scaling the Chitradurga Fort without safety harnesses. He does not climb for sports, but to entertain the visitors to the fort. He is also the only person to have scaled Karnataka's highest waterfall, the 830-foot Jog falls, climbing against the flow. On 13 September 2013, he free soloed the clock tower at Moorusavir Math in Hubli in just over 15 minutes. He did not use any harness, but used chalk for grip. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Jyoti Raj (en) |
| owl:sameAs | wikidata:Jyoti Raj https://global.dbpedia.org/id/e37w |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Jyoti_Raj?oldid=1072155367&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Jyoti_Raj |
| foaf:name | Jyoti Raj (en) |
| is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of | dbr:Jyoti |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of | dbr:Jyoti_Raju dbr:Jyothi_Raj |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:Jyoti_Raju dbr:Jyothi_Raj dbr:Jyoti |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Jyoti_Raj |