Mountaineering for Nature Knights is mother of all adventures and for a good reason. It is one sport that involves all principles of life and if one were to live their life along the principles mountaineering they would be on their way to achieve a life of self actualization.
It is one sport / hobby where the motive and objective are well defined. It requires serious planning and preparation for the event. After several iterations and rehearsals on preparation it is finally time for the moment of truth.
The primary responsibility of facilitators at Nature Knights is safety of all members in the team from beginning till the end; second most important responsibility is being eco-sensitive and causing minimum damage to the precious environment; third most important is execution of the event to attain the end objective i.e. scale the summit and finally have loads of fun.
We facilitate following activities in mountaineering:
Orientation to Fundamentals of Mountaineering
Rappelling
Rock Face Climbing
Valley / River Crossing
Rope Balancing
Jumaring
BurmaBridge
Trust fall
Mavla (The Maratha Way of Climbing Rock Surface)
Smearing on Steep Rock surface
Moderate mountain climbing treks
Small Expedition
Etc.
Learning’s out of a mountaineering event:
Leadership
Team work
Decision making
Communication
Going beyond your comfort zone
Understanding delicate balance between safety and adventure
Endurance
Handling Crises
Conflict management
Learning to focus at task at-hand
Etc.
What is Mountaineering?
Mountaineering as a sport combines climbing & hiking up mountains; done on regular terrain, rocky areas, and ice or snow slopes, mountaineering merges a series of techniques and requires a highly technical approach.
A Climbers use a variety of equipment when mountaineering. This may include anything from ropes, carabineers, jumars, specialized shoes, summit bags, pitons, harnesses etc. They also require some type of shelter, as mountaineering often requires them to spend nights as well as days up in the mountains. A sleeping bag may be enough in summer, but tents are the shelter of choice in windy winter conditions.
Mountaineering is an out door sport with exposure to many hazards of Nature and hence requires proper preparation and execution. A mountaineer has to be aware of nature of mountains, environment condition, capabilities of their team etc and hence prepare themselves accordingly. Very few hazards faced by a mountaineering team are due to equipment failure
It is any mountaineers dream to scale summit of Mt.Everest; this is not the main objective at Nature Knights. But knowing our team you never know; we can definitely set a target to reach base camp of Mt.Everest in next five years.
