ABOUT

I am passionate about urging people to step out of their comfort zones.

Not just adults, but children too. I feel it's very very important for us all to be tired, wet, and hungry. One of the best ways to learn resilience - and the wilderness is a fantastic teacher!

I aim to inspire people. To motivate them to think beyond their self-imposed limitations. So what do I talk about? I talk about grit and determination. I urge people to step out of their comfort zones and into the wilderness to understand success and failure, leadership and responsibility, teamwork and personal growth, aspirations and ambitions.

I tell people to take that leap of faith, to be bold, to not let age, or your friends,  family and doctors put limits on what you can achieve. I show them how the magnificence of nature and the wilderness will help them reach their true potential. 
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Because that's where I truly found mine.

My life is a bit like a thrilling novel.

With several unexpected twists and turns.

I was Head of Operations for STAR Plus and STAR News TV channels. Planning and strategy was in my DNA. From the beginning, my life  was driven by a "T minus one" excel sheet.

So just when I thought I knew where I was headed, I got hit by a bus. Literally. A head on collision that sent me in and out of hospital for two years with seven surgeries to help patch me up. My then-boss called me the bionic woman.

Head of Programming and Marketing at National Geographic Channel, Senior Vice President at The History Channel, COO of UTV Entertainment...a seemingly stratospheric corporate career with no glass ceiling.

Until cancer found me.

I think you get the drift now. The plot continued to develop even as I fought the Big C and emerged on the other side.

I quit it all. At the top of my corporate career, I just closed that chapter.

The mountains came calling and I had this strong urge to head out into the unknown. Life was forcing me to challenge my own self-imposed limitations.

...And so I did​

I hated what the cancer had done to me - to my spirit. Two years, three major surgeries and several naysayers later, I was ready to change the graph of my story.

I disliked trekking, never understood why people chose to amble in the mountains. Besides, I never had the stamina for it. So I chose Everest Base Camp as my first trek. Grade 5 rapids terrified me, and so I picked the wild Zanskar river in Ladakh, skiing was never on my list - until my 5 year-old whizzed past me on the slopes clucking "Mamma chicken!" 

​​It's been a while since then. I have led multiple treks to Everest Base Camp and across the high-altitude terrains of India and Nepal, learnt to ski at 50, led ski groups down the slopes of Gulmarg and am the first and only female to ever lead a civilian trek to the Siachen Glacier.

My storyline kept changing. But the one solid truth that stayed right through it all, was my husband Akshay. The adventurer, explorer, professional skier and rafting guide - the one person with an unshakeable belief in me and my moments of madness.

Until he decided to explore the higher ski slopes of the blue yonder.

...And so now, yet another chapter writes itself.