Tips to avoid climbing injuries: Kakani Adventure Camp

If you are someone who enjoys climbing, you must be aware of the various injuries that might occur while climbing. Climbing is bound to give you a rough and tough experience and may lead to injuries in different body parts like knee, elbow, fingers and head.

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Using right climbing gears such as knee pads, elbow pads, climbing shoes, compass, and ropes is very essential. However, injuries may discourage in your experience so it’s important to avoid such injuries as much as possible. Here are some tips you can follow to have safe and secure climbing.

Most of the injuries are caused due to over use of your body parts, so make sure you get enough rest. Repeatedly climbing on can cause stress on your tendons and joints, thus it is important to know the limitation of your body.

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One of the mistakes that beginners often make while climbing is over gripping. Over gripping puts more force than it is actually required, which makes you easily tired and may have much chances of injuries. Therefore, using less amount of energy while climbing is better for joints and tendons.

Use balm on your fingers while climbing so that you can avoid bad blisters caused by discomfort. This is the best way to avoid injuries specially if you climb regularly and need frequent healing of blisters. Balm keeps your fingers    nourished and helps to recover blisters.

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Always consider cross training by doing some weights, cycling, running and other physical workouts to stay fit for climbing. Cross training helps you to build your muscles as well as in maintaining your balance while climbing. Balancing yourself in the rocky cliffs is very important coz it is the key point on keeping yourself away from possible injuries.

Make sure you warm up well before you start your climbing. Some stretches, push-ups, and jogging are the best way to warm up your body to boost up your confidence level. It is true not only for climbing but for any other sports and physical activities. Warming up reduces the risk of injuries by stretching out your shoulders and fingers and makes your climbing experience comfortable and reliable.

Using these tips and tricks you will be able to experience your climbing comfortably and even save your life.    

Falling in love with the Earth: Kakani Adventure Camp

Yes, we agree this is the age of technology, and it has its significance in the modern world. But, are we forgetting our mother nature? Are we responsible towards the Earth? Or, are we just pretending to love the Earth, as we get lost in the age of technology? Let’s talk about how we get responsible towards it and how we pass the knowledge to our future generation about conserving and connecting to the Earth.

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 Increasing number of depressions, anxiety is enough proof that we are not able to pass and teach young generation the real essence of life. Studies shows that engaging children in outdoor education is far better than just teaching them inside the classroom, theoretically. Children are making paper frogs, reading about parts of the tree, learning about endangered animals, but are they experiencing them in real? Not so much, most of the children are even afraid to go near them. Physical connection with the nature is important to let them experience the real world.

According to the studies, following outdoor lessons is the inexpensive and convenient way to improve youth’s engagement in education. Nowadays, parents or teachers avoid children from playing in the dirt, but they have forgotten that dirt is our real mother apart from our biological mother. We are born out of it, so just by feeling it we feel the very existence of ourselves. We need to act as a gardener so our children can bloom into the better human being, and fall in love with the Earth again.

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Exploring outdoor, youths are at one with the mountains, the rivers, and the forests, where they truly belong. Sleeping under the stars once in a while, experiencing sunrise and sunset gives us the taste of the real life. Nature is not a place to visit, this is our home.

As an Adventure camp we always promote these outdoor lessons which can be valuable for youths, as well as adults in their life ahead. These lessons help to increase motivation and reduce stress which is much needed in this age of technology. View of greenery have positive effects on youth’s attention and engagement in education process. Research shows that students are move attentive and engaged after each outdoor visit.

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Teachers are often worried that students might get overexcited but the case is just the opposite, they get even more enhanced and curious which is a very good thing in the learning process. We need to look at the whole learning environment and link different spaces together. It is very necessary to get students involved in the planning and management of the event from which they learn to be responsible and work as a team. Let them climb tress once in a while to let them know how far they can push themselves, let them keep relationship with animals so that they can understand empathy and behavior.

Therefore, blending technology with outdoor education can be very useful in the future of youths. Here at Kakani Adventure Camp we try our best to accommodate youths as well as adults to provide with above mentioned life skills and various activities with adventure and comfort.

  

Kakani - A truly hilltop Nepal

Kakani Meaning Hill Over the Hills. A truly hilltop occupied by Tamang Folks.  Standing North west from Kathmandu valley located on Nuwakot Nepal. After 23 kilometers drive through Pasang Lhamu Highway, you reach Nepal's beautiful hill top Kakani.

Kakani is a ultimate place for multiple adventure activities sports.  The hill is popular for educational tors and project works, like research of bio-diversity, nature resources, flora and fauna and the Tamang people village live-hood.

From Kakani, people can do hiking trips to Shivapuri National Park, Village walk and visit the Thai Memorial Park and various strawberry farms. There are Natural and Artificial climbing center and a general zip line service as well for alternative fun.

Kakani offer stunning view of mighty Himalayas including Annapurna from West to Jugal Himal on East. The hill at 2000 meters offer scenic view of Kathmandu and Green Farming paddy with dramatic Valley.

Kakani Hill is one of most popular place for Strawberry fruits, Radish, Potatoes and Rainbow Trout Fish (Japanese Trout Fish). The area known as Rainbow Trout Highway.