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Mohit Oberoi: How I swam the English Channel

Mohit Oberoi: How I swam the English Channel

Climber and triathlete Mohit Oberoi pens a riveting account of his first attempt at the English Channel swim. The first of this two-part series talks about his preparation and apprehension. Here I was in cold cold water in the middle of the English Channel, waves slapping me on the head

Paddle for the environment - Exploring the Gulf of Mannar on kayaks (part 2)

Paddle for the environment - Exploring the Gulf of Mannar on kayaks (part 2)

A group of kayakers explore the remote Gulf of Mannar with a mission to clean up the mess in the region. Read the second of the two-part series on ‘paddle for the environment.' In the first part of the series, we described the first two days of exploring the

Paddle for the environment – Exploring the Gulf of Mannar on kayaks

Paddle for the environment – Exploring the Gulf of Mannar on kayaks

A group of kayakers explore the remote Gulf of Mannar with a mission to clean up the mess in the region. Read the first of the two-part series on 'paddle for the environment' We go about our ordinary lives and every once in a while, we’re given

A winter trip to India's ice sheet --Ladakh (part 2)

A winter trip to India's ice sheet --Ladakh (part 2)

A 600-km road trip along the heavily militarized high-altitude desert region of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir during peak winter is the only way to see India's biggest frozen lakes and the life of the mountain folk dwelling by its picture perfect banks. Camouflage, guns dot the landscape

A winter trip to India's ice sheet -- Ladakh

A winter trip to India's ice sheet -- Ladakh

A 600-km road trip along the heavily militarized high-altitude desert region of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir during peak winter is the only way to see India's biggest frozen lakes and understand the life of the mountain folk dwelling by its picture perfect banks. Ladakh’s winter is

The making of a rock climber at Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering

The making of a rock climber at Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering

An economics student realises he needs to climb mountains as much as the corporate ladder and enrolls in the basic course in one of India's cardinal mountaineering schools, the Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering. For a very long time I had been craving to do something exciting. And the

Nepal shall overcome...

Nepal shall overcome...

Despite the Himalayan nation still recovering from recent events, there is hope for its trekking and tourism industry that has withstood everything from insurgencies to calamities, says travel writer and Nepal aficionado Shikha Tripathi Years ago, on my first solo trek, I sat nervously in a little 20-seater plane as