by Shantanu | Dec 5, 2020 | Hiking In The Himalayas, Outdoor Skills
You are about to leave camp at around 10,000 ft. The sun has not hit your camp yet, your location being just west of a steep slope that rises up to a high ridge beyond which you see that there is a sun shining warmly (sigh!). There is a light breeze that creates...
by Shantanu | Dec 4, 2020 | Hiking In The Himalayas, Wilderness first aid
* There is strength in stories * This one is from the archives. On every wilderness first aid course that I teach I remember this incident, and narrate it sometimes as a ‘case study’. This incident is also noteworthy because I am sure it has influenced me...
by Shantanu | Dec 2, 2020 | Experiential Education, Natural History, Wilderness first aid
* And some wasps we did upset… – Meghan Pandit * Imagine walking into shrubbery and disturbing a wasp nest, and you coming to know about it only when the tiny insects swarm around your legs! It happened to me when I was walking in the woods surrounding our...
by Shantanu | Nov 27, 2020 | Pundit – Fun & Time-pass!
* The smallest feline is a masterpiece – Leonardo Da Vinci * “Have you ever wondered why words like cataclysm and catastrophe have ‘cat’ in them?” My wife’s weird argument for not getting a cat as a pet. It didn’t faze our son one bit. “Cats have nothing to do...
by Shantanu | Nov 1, 2020 | Outdoor Leadership
* Let quality of possible outcome also influence your decisions * I did this sketch when I was a part of an expedition that was being planned to climb Mt. Everest in 1997 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Indian Independence. We had enthusiastically started...
