After discovering what I wanted to do and why I wanted to do it, then what to and what not to do, I started focusing on how to do it. From 2015 to mid-2017, PFF was a program for Discover SUP. Lots of RnD was going on to figure out all the logistics. If today an expedition can be planned and executed almost flawlessly, it is because of all the planning, grinding, and actually getting our hands dirty back then.

It was mid-September of 2016, and I had just completed the World’s Highest Stand Up Paddle Boarding Attempt at Lake Tsoltak a few days...

On July 23rd, 2016, along with a couple of friends, I travelled to Kumaon from Gurgaon, to paddle in the Sattal lakes. Sattal literally means Sat Tal or seven lakes. The lakes are an interconnected system of seven freshwater lakes. The waters were glassy, with a turquoise hue to it, adding to its mystic feel. I immediately inflated my paddleboard and entered the waters.

Chennai is the city that I grew up in, that grew up with me, and now, it grows up with my son. As we grow, parts of us change, and so does the city. Well, not all change is progress. The 2015 floods showed us the mirror of what an ecological disaster we were. Once I learnt Stand-Up Paddling in 2014, I started exploring the lakes of Chennai and today, parts of whatever I saw do not exist anymore. And that’s how I began by discovery of lakes in and around the city.