It was always about jumping off a cliff, water fall climbing or roaming in the woods for Aparajita Mukherjee. So when she won the Woodland Adventure campaign, her wildest dreams had come true. She went on a trip of a lifetime, to Nepal where she was asked to do a bungee jump from a height of 160 metres.
Born in Agra, this 28-year-old Bengaluru-based woman is a born adventure enthusiast.
She shares her love for adventure and exclaims, "I love the adrenaline rush that comes along with it, rather than gearing up for a party, I would prefer rock-climbing, and I guess that led to another adventure and I ended up doing a lot of outbound activities."
Being a writer, she moved onto become a branding expert and says that adventure sports was the easiest way to de-stress after a long and winding day.
"My profession and pastime are poles apart and I straddle both these worlds in peace. It is like a cocoon which I can move into when I am stressed with either of both." She is also a scuba diving and a rock-climbing certified expert and explores the hillocks around Bengaluru on bicycle and trekking.
About her two-day trip to Nepal and winning the adventure campaign she says, "A friend had liked the FB page of Woodland and I managed to check about the campaign. It involved submitting a video about my love for adventure sports and how many likes it garnered by the end of the campaign." She was placed first among 20,000 entries and says it was quite "overwhelming", to win something like that.
Talking about her trip to Nepal, she says it was "nerve racking." She adds, "I kept thinking through kept thinking through the whole trip whether I have bitten off more than I can chew. The weather was extremely cold and when I first saw the site from where I had to do the bungee jump, my heart sank." She reminisces, "It was a hanging bridge set on a deep gurgling river and is one of the world's highest natural bungee jumping site."
Apart from that, she had set up camp 10 km from the Nepal-China border, which she says was "quite intense." But by the end off it all she says, "It was an incredible experience and though I was petrified through the journey, it also tested my skills as a person."
