Trekking is the first step to mountaineering and other related adventure sports. You are introduced to mountains through trekking, similar to the concept by which you learn to walk slowly in the beginning of your life. Trekking is the pinnacle to develop a deep relation with the mountains. The first lesson for all the adventurous sports like mountaineering, rock climbing and skiing, etc., for which the playfield is the mountains, starts with trekking. Trekking teaches you how to act on mountains, how to walk on them, and how to make your trip enjoyable and easy.
Trekking brings to light the latent talents in a person and helps him to be a better citizen. It develops leadership qualities in him. It provides the necessary ground for the germination of attributes of mutual help and compassion. Trekking makes you bold, courageous and independent: It instills a strong will power to achieve the set goal.
It is universally accepted that you are not the same per-son once you come back from a trekking trip. The changes in the attitude and attributes are amazing. When a person oozing with self-confidence returns from a trekking trip, his enthusiasm is worth seeing. He may feel exhausted for an initial day or two after returning from the trip, but after that the treasure of sweet-sour memories of the trip guide him on every point of life.
In spite of being a country with the highest mountain ranges in India, the interest of our youth has not been very encouraging. Till 1960s, we were unaware of sports like trekking and mountaineering. The people who knew about them considered trekking as an expensive and uselessly dangerous game. Later on when the students of schools and colleges started going for trekking, to some extent then we learnt that, like other games, trekking too is a complete game and our ancestors were not ignorant of its attributes, though the modern form of trekking was not known to them. Soon after the Indian youth started taking interest in this game, trekking clubs started forming and this was also encouraged by the government and society. Even when people started going for trekking in large numbers, no one ever noticed the paucity of literature on this sport. For years, no Indian author noticed it. Foreign writers did not have complete knowledge about the Indian traditions, climate and geographical conditions. As a result, the literature authored by them did not prove to be very useful. With the increase in the numbers going for trekking, the rate of accidents also increased.
Because of the lack of knowledge of the right techniques for trekking, many people lost their lives also.
First of all Shri Gyanchand thought about this subject. Apart from being a world-renowned mountaineer, he has also been the instructor at Manali Mountaineering Institute.
He attempted to fill the void due to paucity of literature by penning a book Trekking in India. But this book had more information about the trekking routes than techniques. At times, you can see some write-ups on this sport in some magazines and newspapers. In such a scenario, National Book Trust has taken a commendable step to make provisions to publish this book. This book by answering many questions of the youth on trekking will help them to be successful mountaineers. With the wish that this book guides the future citizens of the country to reach the heights of the Himalayas...
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