Surreal Himalayan Scenes and Wild River Rides – NatGeo Traveller
Cloud-piercing peaks, dense forests and roaring rivers make for heady adventures
Cloud-piercing peaks, dense forests and roaring rivers make for heady adventures
– Kabir Gupta has been participating at the Himalayan Adventure Challenge for over three years along with his family and friends at this unique event held each year in Rishikesh. Here he recounts his experiences in the outdoors and what it means for him to come back each year: The lush green valleys, snow covered…
Assam, in India’s little-visited northeast, harbours a wilderness rafting experience that will soon disappear with the completion of a controversial dam.
Swept overboard by the churning rapids of the Ganges River, our rafting mate struggles in his life jacket and helmet to get back to our boat, terror flashing in his eyes. I sit closest to his flailing hands and the rest of the group shouts for me to get hold of him.
The spectacular Auden’s Col trek offers you the rare chance to experience wilderness and climb in solitude. Text and photographs by Milan Moudgill for Outlook Traveller
By Patrick Scott for the Wall Street Journal The Beatles sought spiritual enlightenment in Rishikesh, a Himalayan mountain town on the banks of the Ganges. These days, it’s a white-water-rafting hub, offering more physical highs SWEPT overboard by the churning rapids of the Ganges River, our rafting mate struggled in his life jacket and helmet…
Aquaterra Adventures featured by the New York Times
I always thought it was quite cute the way rapids are named. Rocky III, christened so for the three quick bursts of rock-strewn surges, socks us cold with an inaugural taste of the Tons. An Article by Nirad Grover for Man’s World Magazine
A mixed bag of Irish & Indian Adventurers, some skilled, others amateurs, take on the mighty Bhagirathi and emerge largely unscathed but with a greater understanding of the perils and pleasures of rafting India’s rivers – An Article by Nirad Grover
When I first heard of a Jeep safari in Himalayan India, I was puzzled. I had traveled in the Himalayas and knew that it was rare to be able to get anywhere in those mountains other than on foot. But the region of Spiti, in Himachal Pradesh, in India’s north, is an exception: it offers Jeep travel as well as trekking possibilities.