Here is a list of places we buy gear from. Since we are based in our hypercity Mumbai, most of these resources are Mumbai based. Surprisingly, for such a busy city, there are enough places to buy adventure equipment, though most are not well known.
Mountain Sports Academy
Nandu is this good friend with great passion for creating change and awareness of safety and quality in the outdoor professions. He also sells equipment, and gives it out on rent, (if he trusts you with it). Some of the best climbing harnesses we have used have come from him, and they are also some of the cheapest. They also offer adventure services, and Nandu’s partner Kaivalya is beginning to facilitate experiential learning groups in the outdoors.
Phone numbers: +91-98920 42704 and +91- 98693 31490
Address: 3/45, Chandan Mansion, Gokhale Road (North), Dadar West, Mumbai – 400 028.
Adventure18
Possibly the only real network of adventure stores in India. Their main office is in Delhi. You can find a wide variety of brands and equipment under one roof here.
Phone number: 022-23803102
4 Wallace Apartments 9/140 Sparka Center, (Behind Bhatia Hospital) Grant Road West, Mumbai-400007.
Avi Industries
Avinash and Ravi Kamat offer quite a select range of adventure gear from this Matunga based shop. We have found excellent sleeping bags and shoes here, though they do sell all kinds of equipment.
Phone numbers: +91 22 2414 3810 or +91 22 6577 9787
Address: 13, Shriji Sadan, Chandavarkar Road, Matunga (E), Mumbai 400 019.
Great Outdoors
Sunil Joshi’s shops. Originally, he began as a manufacturer and retailer of bags, and his passion for mountaineering quickly led him to manufacture rucksacks, sleeping bags and other mountaineering related items. Possibly the one place in Mumbai to head to, if you need a kid size sleeping bag, or something off-beat, which doesn’t fit the regular sales traffic. Another of his products we have been very happy with are his excellently made toilet tents. A true enthusiast, if he doesn’t have it, he will go to reasonable extents to see if he can create it.
His main shop is in Thane, but he has started another in Dadar in recent years.
Phone numbers – Thane: 022 – 2542 2072, 6529 7654
Address – Thane Office: Shop No. 3, Gautam Villa Soc., Ghantali Devi Rd., Thane (W) – 400 602.
Phone Numbers – Dadar Shop: 022 65178100
Address – Dadar Shop: Shop No. 10, Sunshine Hights, Gyan Mandir Road., Opp Jain Health Centre, Dadar (W), Mumbai – 400028.
These are the resources we regularly use, that occur to me. Will add more as I recall them. Feel free to suggest any resources you know of which may be missing here.
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