Vivasvat Chauhan
Vivasvat’s love for the outdoors started early. The boarding school encouraged excursions and treks into the Himalayas, which fascinated him. After completing higher education he joined a National Outdoor Leadership program (NOLS, USA) on a month-long backpacking course in the Himalayas and then went on to get a diploma in outdoor education from NOLS, USA. Soon after returning to India he got a chance to work with a large outdoor adventure company in Delhi. Later his childhood interest in wildlife grew and this lead him towards the wildlife tourism industry. Here his job entailed designing itineraries and guiding nature-lovers in the forests of Central India and Corbett. Anthill Adventures gives him a chance to explore the mountains and other wild areas of India as a profession. What more can one want – a passion becomes a career! Vivasvat, leads guiding operations and customer engagement. He also runs two homestays in Kashmir and Himachal.
Vivasvat leads wildlife operations at AntHill
Aman Sood
Aman grew up in Chandigarh, a city in the foothills of the Himalayas. A passion for the mountains developed at an early age while exploring the hills around. So even while he worked in the corporate sector for over 8 years, he kept returning to the mountains every chance he got. Aman has trekked extensively in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and has undertaken several solo bicycle expeditions in the Indian himalaya. His exposure to unattended piles of waste in otherwise pristine locations sparked the need to build a company with ethical hiking as an integral part of its ethos. At AntHill Adventures, in addition to leading trekking, mountaineering and skiing operations, Aman takes care of marketing. Aman is a certified mountaineer from the Atal Bihari Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports and an intermediate skier from the Indian Institute of Skiing & Mountaineering, Gulmarg. He is qualified as a Paragliding Pilot as well from the Paragliding Gurukul school. He is also trained as a Wilderness First Responder under instruction from the Aerie Backcountry, Montana, USA.
Aman leads trekking, climbing and skiing operations at AntHill
OPERATIONS AND GUIDING TEAM
Dinesh Thakur
Deshu, as he is more fondly called, is from Solang in the state of Himachal Pradesh. A certified mountaineer, Dinesh has been guiding groups since a decade. Always polite and patient, he has successfully led several groups to Hanuman Tibba, Friendship Peak and Dev Tibba in the Kullu region. Deshu leads treks for AntHill Adventures in the Kullu, Lahaul and Spiti regions of the Indian Himalayas.
Suman Panwar
Suman is from Agoda, a village near Uttarkashi in the Garhwal region of the Indian Himalayas. Affable by nature, Suman leads treks for AntHill in this region. A certified mountaineer (Advance Mountaineering Course, NIM, Uttarkashi), Suman also completed the Search and Rescue Course from the same institute. He trained as a Wilderness First Responder from the Hanifl Centre, Mussoorie. When not on the mountains he spends time with his family, farms. He is also an avid fisherman!
