This Is Why I Stopped Hiking Conventional Trails
Trekking infrastructure hasn’t kept pace with population growth leading to all kinds of issues on the trail.
India is no stranger to trekking, what with hundreds of square kilometers of massive untouched wilderness lying in plain sight just waiting to be discovered and explored.
Non-profit volunteer based trekking groups have been venturing into the jungles for years together much before the arrival of navigation tech or profit based trekking companies. I was myself a part of one for more than a decade before it ultimately shut down due to various issues we’d started encountering with the law. Due to the phenomenal rise in tourist trekkers over the years, the number of volunteer based trekking groups has drastically fallen following a simultaneous rise in the number of profit based trekking organizations. The prime reason being safety and trust. People want someone they can trust to safely lead them into the forest and get them back to the city in one piece, and someone whom they can hold accountable in case anything goes wrong. Since trekking companies are legal entities, this warrants them abiding to all laws governing adventure activities in the country and forces them to take utmost precautions while doing so. For the most part, profit based trekking companies can and do offer that bit of expertise.
