Our People
Lived out ofa suitcase.
Planet Trotter's programmes are led by people who have researched, explored, written and filmed in the field for most of their lives.
Founder
NikhilPratap Singh.
The person behind Planet Trotter has practically lived out of a suitcase: researching, exploring, writing and filming. The credentials below are the ones documented in the project material. Nothing more is claimed.
Adventurer & mountaineerKayaker & white-water rafting expertSurfer & climberWilderness expertScout trainerResuscitation, First Aid & Lifeguard qualified
The person
Born in 1992 in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, and an alumnus of Kendriya Vidyalaya, he graduated in 2015, held a job for four months, and left it for the field. A social entrepreneur made by the outdoors.
The adventurer
Mountains, rivers and oceans first: mountaineering, kayaking, white-water rafting, surfing and climbing, practised for years before any of it had a name like Planet Trotter.
The field work
A 2019 recce to open a rafting route found the Ladhiya Valley instead. Then came the 70-kilometre trek in, the adoption of three villages, and the interventions that followed: solar, water, medicine and education, documented in the Project Dawn reports.
Project Dawn
Dawn is his framework: adventure as the connection between travellers and the communities who host them, with the SDGs as the measure of what the connection achieves.
The mission
To prove that responsible exploration can fund and sustain rural development, and to train the next generation of village children in the outdoor sports that changed his own life.
The organisation is larger than one person. The field team below, and the communities themselves, carry the work.
Experts & field team
The people inthe field.
Full bios for the field team are being gathered and verified before publication. No qualifications are invented in the meantime.
Nikhil Pratap Singh
Founder · Expedition Leader
Raj Garkoti
Field team
Bio pending verification