When you are born into suburbia, You are cast into a role. Acting out your life. When you grow up in suburbia, You are copied. Pasted next door. When you live in suburbia, You adapt to adequacy. Evolving to become “normal”. When you grow......Read More

Hello friends and families! Today we are embarking on our last and final trek through Markha Valley. This will be our most challenging and longest trek yet! The trek will be 7 days long  and we will not be able to have any Internet connection. We......Read More

Waking up at 4:35am is tough. Climbing a mountain at 5 am is tougher. The group woke up to climb SECMOL mountain in the wee hours of the morning. Although the hike up the towering mountain was not as hard as I thought, this treacherous mountain pass......Read More

About a week ago, we split up into teams and toured around Leh. My group was Pia and Cleo. The instructors gave us a list of places to visit. We went downhill first all the way to the Hospital and the boys school. Then, we went all the way uphill......Read More

Yesterday, July 12, our adventurous group ventured into the thriving metropolis of Leh, Ladakh. After completing our mid course surveys, we had time to explore the unknown in this historic city. Soon into our adventure, we stumbled across a dried......Read More

Dear Indus River, You inspire me to take photos. Whenever you are in the photo, it is a great photo. The other day I woke up very early, so I decided to watch the sunrise. I walked to where I saw the sun rising. This brought me to the edge of......Read More

Thank you SECMOL students for: 1. Teaching the beauty of making quick, lasting friends 2. Taking pride and ownership of the work you do 3. Having 3 tea times in a day (now a necessity for me) 4. Understanding the importance of having a sense of......Read More

I constantly gasp Ladakh’s thin air, searching for more oxygen, but it is in this place that I feel I can finally breathe. I’m without hoards of people in a glamorous city life, yet still come across glamor in the seasoned smiles of......Read More

Starting at 5:00 AM SECMOL time, 4:00 actual/Leh time, dragons grouped together with our water bottles filled and our headlights on and ready. SECMOL is one hour ahead of Leh time on account of the community’s reliance on sunlight to complete......Read More

Leh is filled with all types of people, from dried fruit vendors that each of us has visited multiple times and aggressive pashmina scarf salesmen to monks in all red outfits and tourists with sunglasses and a hand perched on their head to block out......Read More