With his documentary film Fighting on Ice, Mithun L Bajaj aims to spread awareness about the Winter Olympic sport and highlight the men and women playing the game.
Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust, a Mumbai-based NGO is planning to organise a camp in Ladakh next year to donate prosthetic legs, callipers, crutches, wheelchairs, and hearing aids to people with disabilities.
Kumaran M, a paddler who is also a geologist by profession, recently set a new national record by paddling at a location where no person has paddled before -- Tsoltak lake in Leh, located at a height of 16,618 feet near Chang La pass.
FarmStays Ladakh is an interesting initiative involving mothers in Ladakhi villages who are renting out rooms in their houses to tourists. This is how it works.
The Indian Army conducts an annual trek to Siachen glacier for civilians, between August to September every year. The expedition for civilians was started for the first time in 2007 and is organised by the Army Adventure Wing. About 30-40 civilians are selected.
Even as 100 eager children in one of the remotest schools in Ladakh waited, she came bearing gifts – 1500 kg of school equipment carried by 25 horses in -20 degree C temperatures over 3 mountain passes. Meet Sujata Sahu, who took education from New Delhi to Leh, and much beyond.