Mountaineering

Mountaineering

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 that are not limited to:

• Orientation to Fundamentals of Mountaineering
• Rappelling
• Rock Face Climbing
• Valley / River Crossing
• Rope Balancing
• Jumaring
• Burma Bridge
• Trust fall
• Mavla (The Maratha Way of Climbing Rock Surface)
• Smearing on Steep Rock surface
• Moderate mountain climbing treks
• Small Expedition
  
  Few 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

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.