July 31, 2009
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What is the difference betweent Wide Aware and the hundreds of sites out there about adventure travel? Purpose Every site about adventure will tell you about what they sell. Wide Aware sells things as a business, but the site is … Continue reading
July 12, 2009
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Just got a phone call from Raka. Like I said in my last post, he is attending the Girimitra Sammelan today. In fact, he’s been gone since last night, meeting his friends, many of whom are involved in organizing the … Continue reading
July 10, 2009
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Raka is so excited. Finally, after years of looking forward to it, he is going to the Girimitra Sammela on the 12th July 2009. He had been wanting to attend ever since it began some 7 years ago. Every time, … Continue reading
April 30, 2009
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To those who don’t know what this is about, Parag’s death on a trek to Triund took the mountaineering community by shock. An experienced mountaineer, climber and overall fit person of 42 years of age, falling of a track described … Continue reading
September 7, 2008
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Wide Aware is in the process of designing a three day training programme for training and certification of activity instructors in the outdoors. The current scenario with instructors is that there is no specific training that they undergo. Some instructors … Continue reading
August 30, 2008
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As I had mentioned earlier, we are doing a Training the Trainer Programme for facilitators in the outdoors. Add value to your outdoor programmes with these skills and tools for facilitating active learning. Empower Activity Camps and Wide Aware invite … Continue reading
August 13, 2008
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Roger Greenaway is an outdoor facilitator and the person behind the immensely useful site on the subject – reviewing.co.uk – a man whose writings I have read on and off for the last three years, and emailed a few times … Continue reading
June 22, 2008
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The Tourism ministry insists that they want to promote adventure tourism in India. Like cultural tourism, etc. Basically what they want is more tourists. There are fancy initiatives and Incredible India and what-nots. Yet, how much attention is paid to … Continue reading
June 16, 2008
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Ram and Kishore, who work with the authorized dealer for Petzel in India had invited me to join them for this programme on the 14th July. I was working officially with them for the first time, and hence excited. The … Continue reading
September 12, 2007
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Just as I was sad about how I missed the regional event and how it would be expensive to now go for a National event, I got the newsletter from ISABS that announces a new regional event that is IN … Continue reading