By Andrew Hepworth , Head of Outdoor Education [caption id="attachment_6943" align="aligncenter" width="760"] Photo by 'Bex'[/caption] As the third annual Trek Leader Course comes to an end and the students begin their travel back home to remote rural areas of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, we begin to reflect on the impression that the...
By Zachary Conrad, Teacher [caption id="attachment_6896" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] Photo by Zachary Conrad[/caption] There is a small, nag temple just outside the campsite at Deosari. It sits in a forest of Deodar trees, thick and green, with trunks like pillars for the sky. We found all this out later, though. We got there...
Remember that time spent on a rock climb isn't subtracted from your life span -Will Niccolls ...
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away - Marcus Aurelius [caption id="attachment_6838" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Photo by Geeta Washington[/caption] ...
[caption id="attachment_19137" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Trek Leader's Course[/caption] Hanifl Centre Is Proud To Announce Its Third Trek Leader Course. Once again, the course has attracted young, potential trek leaders - 17 participants (2 women and 15 men) from remote areas of Uttarakhand, Spiti (Himachal), Mumbai (Maharashtra) and even Nepal. The course is subsidized by Hanifl Centre and...
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." -T.S.Eliot ...
[gallery ids="6411,6400,6402,6404,6403,6405,6399,6409,6410,6406,6407,6408"] After a successful semester that had rigorous classroom curriculum and many field trips, students of 'Pitt in the Himalayas' semester graduate with flying colours. Local children gave a Garhwali dance performance which was followed by a graduation dinner for all. K Krishnan Kutty, Director, says that this has been a landmark...
Woodstock School and Hanifl Centre get great publicity thanks to the article written by Stephen Alter about the Advanced trek to Baraadsar Lake during Activity Week. "In 2003, Woodstock opened a special facility dedicated to Outdoor Learning. The Hanifl Centre for Outdoor and Environmental Education promotes an interest in the outdoors...
...Climate change. Not far, as the crow flies from Hanifl Centre, ( Woodstock School ) are a team of biologists who have studied several bee species at high altitude and are addressing how these pollinators have shaped flower evolution accounting for distinctive bee-friendly colours. "While ‘bee colours’ were prevalent at all elevations, flower colours in high altitude zones were...
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. When it is dark enough, you can see the...
