by Shantanu | Dec 23, 2020 | Outdoor Skills
A dry sleeping bag is akin to a bed of roses! As the end of the year draws nigh, people get busy with various kinds of preparations… and outdoors people are wont to plan quiet getaways to spend happy times in nature’s lap. No matter how 2020 has been, winter can be a...
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 | Oct 31, 2020 | Outdoor Skills
* Travelling, it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller – Ibn Battuta * The first ever article that I wrote got published in an issue of the magazine ‘Caravan’ – waaaay back in 1986! Those were raw days, with no clutter of...