These designed projects aimed their trajectories towards Meaning, and Truth, which drive the essence of a contemporary human being's life. The idea was to explore and create the felt presence of direct experience during the process.
A Big mountain Project that happened in the Nanda Devi National Park, Sponsored by Indian Union Ministry of youth affairs and sports, The IMF and Nehru Institute of Mountaineering; it was aimed as ascending an Ultra Prominent mountain in the Garhwal Himalayas, namely Mt. Trishul 7,120 m
Kesar (meaning saffron, native flora of Kashmir) was a combined Big mountain Project that happened in the Kashmir Valley, Sponsored by The Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering, Pahalgam; it was aimed as ascending two major mountains of Kashmir namely Mt. Tuliyan and Mt. Kolahoi.
The idea was to build a structured understanding about the psycho-somatic actions in high tension, catastrophe prone setups, with very high possibilities of brutal outcomes, white magic was a Hybrid Winter Speed Ascent of Mt. Stok, Ladakh.
An International Expedition headed to Zanskar, with a dream to ascend (33.9817° N, 76.0231° E) Mt. Nun. It just wasn't about hitting geographical coordinates or climbing up contour lines. Top Dog was about arriving at absolutes and destroying them; becoming a witness to the dissolution of the sense of self, an agglomeration of civilisational ideas. hanging in crevasses, suspended in space.
A mountain massif in the Garhwal Himalayas called the Bandar Punch massif, encompassing three major big mountains in the Gharwal Himalayas namely The White Peak, The Black Peak and The Bandarpunch. The project was designed and dedicated to achieving a hybrid alpine speed ascent on this Himalayan Giant, and so happened.
The Cold Monk was an exploratory Ultra project, trekking through the complete trad rout over the frozen Zanskar river from Leh to Padum for some 63 odd Miles. On extremes it was surviving in -40 dipped in the Celcius scale. The idea behind was to experience human behaviour under extreme conditions.
Swisschutney was an international big mountain expedition in Indian Himalayas, aimed at (30.8450° N, 79.2125° E) ascending a height of 7075 m on Mt. Satopanth with transnational climbing members, organised by K&P, Switzerland, Lead under the guidance of (IFMGA) Mr. Andreas Neuchmid.
The Shangri la as a project was born out of disruptive absurdity; designed and inspired by the flow of life, there was no plan, there was no idea, the complete expedition was conducted over a firm lively aggression to reach (33.7659° N, 77.5550°, Mt. Khang Yatse). The purity of motion experienced was such that the self withered away in the performance of the act.
A National Geographic Expedition in association with The North Face, Peak of Evil was a project Designed by Ms Hilaree Nelson, a world-class steep slope backcountry ski mountaineer. Culminated by a successful ski descent of (32.2130° N, 77.5521° E) Mt. Papsura.