This is an excellent opportunity if you are looking to build a career in the outdoors.  

We have reopened Trek Leader recruitment at Indiahikes. Summer is nearly upon us, and monsoon treks are not too far away.

Not just that, with our new Summer Camps for children, Experiential learning programmes for schools, and Collaborative Leadership Programs for professional institutions, our work is increasing much beyond expectations.

With so many futuristic programmes, it’s an exciting time to be at Indiahikes. Our work is growing, and our recruitment is growing as well.

Which is why we are recruiting Trek Leaders again.

This has been a long-awaited vision at Indiahikes. Over the past decade, having taken over 8,000 children trekking in the Himalayas — in family groups and experiential learning programs with schools — we have seen that just one exposure to a trek can change a child’s entire outlook and approach to life. 

So we opened 300 slots for Summer Camp — spread over April, May and June 2023. They were divided between two age groups. Dayara Bugyal for the younger 8-11 year-olds. And Deoriatal-Chandrashila for the 12-15 year-olds. 

Although we were initially apprehensive about parents sending their children on this high-altitude adventure, all the 300 slots got completely filled up! 

The first group, starting on March 22nd, with 49 children from all over the country came together at the Delhi airport to start their journey towards the Dayara Bugyal and Deoriatal-Chandrashila treks. We've been waiting for this day for a long time! 

On Day 1, the children were welcomed by rain and snow. But soon the weather gods surprised them with brilliantly clear weather.

"The children are already going through things they've never experienced before. At the end of the summer camp, they're surely coming out with incredible resilience and confidence!" says Izzat Yaganagi, head of the Experiential Learning division at Indiahikes, emphasizing on the objective of the whole program — to create a transformative experience for children.

We received the latest updates from our treks in the Himalayas that it has been snowing. This gave a terrific feel of winter to the trekkers, even during peak winter.

This impromptu snowfall has also intensified the excitement on treks. Watch the video to see latest footage from Deoriatal-Chandrashila, Dayara Bugyal, Kedarkantha and Kuari Pass treks.

Last week, was special for us. We finally opened our new campus for the Kuari Pass trekkers! The team going to the trek in the 9th March batch was the first set of trekkers stepping inside our campus. It was a very emotional moment for our slope team present there. 🙂

Our co-founder Sandhya UC (@sandhyauc) was invited for a fireside chat by the Indian School of Business on the occasion of Women’s Day.

This was a fireside chat that happened online between Sandhya and another entrepreneur Saloni Sacheti who is working with tribal women of India to make products out of Bamboo. Sandhya shares: “In the conversation, we broadly covered topics like motherhood, challenges we face in entrepreneurship, working long distance, and how people perceive work-life balance.

We have officially opened new groups to our latest trek in Kumaon, Uttarakhand -- The Ranthan Kharak trek. 

Last year, we took two pilot groups on this trek to see how trekkers would react to such an unusual trek.

(1) For one, it is in an unusual region -- it is in the heart of Kumaon. While most of our other treks are in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, this is our first trek in Kumaon.

(2) Second reason why it is unusual is that the highlight of this trek is not a mountain top or a mountain pass or a summit. The "kharaks" (clearings) in the forests are the grandest highlight on this trek.

On 21st Feb we commenced our second group of Adventure Therapy Trek on the Dayara Bugyal trek. The trek was facilitated by Izzat Yaganagi , who is a Psychological Counselor with a practice of over 13 years. She heads the Experiential Learning division at Indiahikes.

Here’s what Izzat Yaganagi shared about this trek experience. “What an eventful and intense last 6 days it has been! 14 individuals came, some with hope and some with curiosity. They bared their hearts, untangled their thoughts and worked courageously towards healing, clarity, acceptance, understanding and lightness of spirit.

On March 3rd, 2023 we celebrated the second anniversary of our Sari Campus! 🥳 Here’s what Manisha Hegde, our chief architect of the Sari Campus had to share:

“Sari will always hold a special place at Indiahikes. It is not just a landmark (literally), it is also a pivotal landmark in Indiahikes history and the history of Sari as a slope.