Escapade Adventures and holidays Pvt. Ltd.

ESCAPADE
Redefining the spirit of adventure

Every soul wants to grow big and fly out of the bounds. Sighting this urge and the idea of outbound life full of fun and Adventures, has given birth to an organization with true adventure in its blood with combination of light and energy in the form of Escapade Adventures & Holidays Pvt. Ltd.

Launched in 1998 with a small home office, ESCAPADE has grown into into a permanent work force of 15 people, along with a no. of associates and business partners all across the country. Recently we have also added our own fleet of cars in our services which are dedicated to our guests only. Our own English Speaking drivers and guides are highlights of the bunch of services that we offer.

Today Escapade Adventures & Holidays Pvt. Ltd. Has diversified in various fields related to adventures and other travel related services. With the newest feather in our cap being the Charity Tourism. Escapade Adventures is the first company in India to have launched the tour programs in Indian Himalayas with a scope of Charity for the participants. Another big leap in our growth was taken in 2003 when Camp Hammock, the Luxury camp Resorts chain was launched. With that Escapade Adventures also started the third leg of our Operations in the field of Outbound Corporate Training. In the year 2005, we got into an operational Tie-up with camp River Wilds in Rishikesh, to start our White Water Rafting operations.

Presently we are operational in different regions of Himalayas and other parts of India Including Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand ( uttaranchal ), Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet amongst the Himalayan regions and Rajasthan, Goa, Kerala, West Bengal and Karnataka for cultural tours in India.

The Escapade Team

Sanjay Saini

DIRECTOR

Sanjay Saini, a hard core adventure professional, Mountain climber & wild life enthusiast by choice is also an electronics Engineer. Sanjay excelled in sports at National Level in Badminton. He is also pursuing his study trips to jungle for behavioral study on wild Asian Elephants.

All these adventures have helped him in evolving as a facilitator for understanding the need for team work and self belief. Started working on behavioral developmental programs for schools with Mayo College ( Ajmer ) and then Welham Girls High School ( Dehradun ) in 1999 and then got into corporate OBL workshops two years later. Picked up adventure sports as profession in 1995 and has evolved as an OBL trainer over last five years. Has been working with varied list of MNCs and various prestigious schools across north India.

Running his adventure company Escapade Adventures & Holidays Pvt. Ltd. As Director operations since 1998, Sanjay has to his credit the successful climb of Mt. Kedardome ( 21430 ft. ), Stok Kangri ( 20,205 ft ) and Mt. Rudra Gaira ( 19,091 ft ) in Indian Himalaya, a cycling expedition across North India for 2000 kms in 15 days and have extensively trekked over last 15 years in North Indian Himalayas of Ladakh, Himachal and Uttaranchal.

Have also handled the launch of “All Terrain Vehicles” in India for Hero motors, involved in trial and Demo runs of the vehicle for Indian Army in Jaiselmer and Ladakh region. Writing Urdu Poetry and photography are other two interests that make Sanjay’s profile complete as an adventurist.

Partha Pratim Saha ( Partho )

Partha Pratim Saha ( Partho )
One of the few who not only started white water rafting in India in late eighties, Partho has also spent more than twenty years of his prime youth in establishing rafting as the most popular adventure sport in the country. Being one of the Key figures in rafting circles Partho has runs on almost all the important rivers in the world as part of Indian rafting team under his belt and he is one of five most experienced rafters in the country. A great eco tourism enthusiast Partho will always be a delight to be with on the river expeditions with his stories told in his own style making it more entertaining.

NEETI BHALLA SAINI

NEETI BHALLA SAINI
The heart of the organization is also the sweetheart of Sanjay and keeps the team together. A Teacher by profession, Neeti is an integral part of the TEAM ESCAPADE. She has co-facilitated some of the OBL workshops along with Sanjay. The passion for the duo has been to pick up day to day life challenges and make connections to those in the professional lives of people. Neeti is also a great cook and takes pleasure in teaching our guests cooking the North Indian cuisine.

SUNIL AHUJA

SUNIL AHUJA (Manager operations camping )
MBA in Marketing. Sunil Ahuja is the driving force behind the Camping & domestic corporate business that Escapade does. Responsible for handling the operations and down line teams is his forte. Has been in the field for over 5 years and is also the integral part of all our planning.

Pinto Wangchuk

Pinto Wangchuk (Manager Resourcing & Info. processing)
Pinto the oldest member of our core team is a specialist in tours to Ladakh. Being born and brought up in Leh, Ladakh is the back yard for him and the Itineraries planned by him are actually there on most of the Indian web sites on Ladakh. An expert with designing and art on computer he is also responsible for most of our presentations.

Harpreet Singh

Harpreet Singh (Manager tours)
Harpreet is responsible for handling the operations of all adventure tours in mountains including Ladakh, Uttaranchal, Himachal & Sikkim.

Bhanu Pakhrin

Manager Operations Sikkim
Bhanu is a native of Sikkim and he is also our associate for operations in Sikkim.

Virender Singh

Manager Operations Himachal
Virender is a native of Manali ( Himamchal Pradesh ) and he is also our associate for operations in HImachal. Virender is an expert angler himself and loves to go for Himalayan trout fishing.

Vijyendra

Instructor Yoga & Meditation
Vijyendra is a native of Rishikesh and he is also our resident manager for Camp – Hammock at New Tehri in Uttarakhand. Vijyendra is an undergraduate in Yoga and meditation from University of Gurukul Kangri In Haridwar.

Udit Bhalla

Udit Bhalla (Portal Research and Website Development)
The newest member of the organization, Udit is responsible for the development of the Adventure travel portal and content development of the websites of the company. He works in tandem with the web developers to create and develop the websites.