by Shantanu | Feb 5, 2022 | Pundit – Fun & Time-pass!, Risk Management
Hazards can be exciting challenges and a lot of fun! It was in a Wodehouse that I first came across the word ‘repose’ and I still remember how I immediately liked the word. Some words spark off an affinity for them in me. They just sound right, have a ring to them or...
by Shantanu | Nov 17, 2021 | Consultancy Services, Risk Management
These thoughts are a direct result of a course titled ‘Risk Management for Outdoor Programs’ conducted by “Viristar” which I attended in June 2021 and a subsequent discussion initiated by Jeff Baierlein, the creator of the course and our facilitator on the course. It...
by Shantanu | Oct 6, 2021 | Hiking In The Himalayas
In nature’s infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read. – William Shakespeare Four of us – my friend and I guided by two route guides – were climbing a very steep snow slope to gain the ridge between Mounts Gangotri-I and Rudugaira. We had decided to pitch...
by Shantanu | Sep 28, 2021 | Experiential Education
* The dream-child moving through a land * – Poem in preface to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll The OutdoorPersons (OP) series brings you a post written by Shari Khanolkar. I have known Shari since she was a little girl, since she came in as the youngest...
by Shantanu | Sep 15, 2021 | Experiential Education
* Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love – Rabindranath Tagore * “It takes an effort to not take such views for granted!” That remark was made quietly, in a voice suitably laced with almost religious awe, by Dr. Dominic Blunt as we stood in silence on one...
