"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more"
When you are alone in a city that too standing in a crowd , with noone to look upon , merely nothing to learn from anyone that can help you anyhow, thats the situation I was in when I decided to take the plunge , not to kill myself of course but to reinvent myself in a new place and dire life threatning situation , besides this is what I wanted to do for a while and physically I dont believe I was in a better condition than now. Some questions can only be answered noone else but you. So I filled in the application for Basic Mountaineering Course , to be conducted at Department of Mountaineering n Allied Sports(DMAS) , Manali, Himachal Pradesh , India. I chose this Institute over 4 others mainly bcoz I ... read more