by Shantanu | Aug 14, 2023 | Consultancy Services, Experiential Education, Hiking In The Himalayas, Hiking in the Indian Western Ghats, Outdoor Leadership, Outdoor Skills, Risk Management
“Control what you can, to face what you can’t” – Shantanu Pandit This article briefly states a few basic level considerations that can guide an organisation’s systematic management of risks in its various programmes. Risk management in adventure...
by Shantanu | Jun 12, 2021 | Experiential Education, Hiking in the Indian Western Ghats
* The silent and meditative world of climbers * The Sahyadri landscape is characterized by a distinctive feature: pinnacles! Many of these stand typically isolated next to flat topped bulks that signify the flat basaltic flows that formed the Deccan traps of...
by Shantanu | Mar 27, 2021 | Hiking in the Indian Western Ghats
* What’s in a name? * Notice how names of mountains and rivers and other natural features tend to have a ring to them? One of my childhood memories is of a book about the first exploration of the river Orinoco in South America, and I remember how I just loved the...
by Shantanu | Feb 3, 2021 | Experiential Education, Hiking in the Indian Western Ghats, Natural History
* ‘A Considerable Speck’ – title of poem by Robert Frost * Whenever the aeroplane I am in takes off or approaches an airport, I am drawn to the sight of clusters of buildings lying scattered below. And without fail I think of them as nothing but anthills. Valid...
