By Marta Lofesser It has been a year of change and growth at the Hanifl Centre. 2015 kicked off with a new partnership with Aerie Backcountry Medicine, a leading provider of wilderness-medicine courses based out of Missoula, USA. Through this partnership, selected Hanifl Centre and Woodstock School staff members attended a...
It's that time of year again when plans are made and remade, gear, tents, rations, medical supplies, logistics and laments are all sorted out and resolved one by one. There's this sense of anticipation lingering over campus, but not for long. Activity week starts as early as tomorrow for advanced treks and later in...
How the right skills at the right time can save a life and reduce environmental impact Adventure tourism is a growing industry in Uttarakhand. Along with generous commissions for the tour operators, it provides local and rural youth with job opportunities. Becoming guides, cooks or porters allows them continue to be...
Environmentalist and WWF India Programme Director, Sejal Worah, and her local team have spent the last two years attempting to revive a 400 acres area situated in the Garwhal Himalayas, in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. From being a degraded and over grazed territory, within two years of conservation efforts the protected area...
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. -Theodore Roethke ...
"Never give children the chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very start that all things living is relationship. Show them the relationship in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams in the village and the country around it." - Aldous Huxley We...
See The Latest Photos Of Wilderness First Aid and Trek Leaders' Courses Here http://bit.ly/Hanifl_Centre_courses_outreach...
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Robert W. Service ...
Hanifl Centre puts to paper the footprints of Woodstockers in the last 160 + years in a map for all seasons. If you love exploring the hillside around Woodstock, wanted a map that didn't require you to have any special map reading skills; a map that you'd love to keep or gift because it's...
A Collection Of Photos Of Woodstock School, Landour and Mussoorie. The whole story behind the collection as told to Anne McGregor Click here to see the album In case you're interested, here is the background to why I started taking lots of photos around Mussoorie. Dan Jantzen, a fellow Woodstock alumnus, has visited Mussoorie...
