Mussoorie a tourist destination, until last year had but little to offer to the new age travellers when it came to adventure. Today, the hill-station is slowly but surely making its way on to the adventure map. Cycling; rappling; quad bikes, see-ways on rent and adding to this is ‘Zipline.’
Situated at the Mussoorie Lake, is the town’s much – sort after Zipline, 600 mtrs of sheer adrenalin rush! The zipline operates 365 days a year, from 9:00 am to 7:00 p.m at night, with special offers for larger groups.
On any given day, you will find a queue of enthusiasts patiently awaiting their turn as they zip through secured by a full body harness and a double layer braking system, leaving no place for error.
Our guide for the day, Dev tells us, ‘We are a total of 6 people who took a crash course in the month of March and since April 8th we have been operating commercially. Meant only for people over the age of 4 and under 90 kgs we have been sending people down the line to get a real high on adventure.’
Sudhanshu Rawat, the person behind the thrill tells us, ‘it took us close to a year 3 months to get this thing off the ground. And it’s been running really awesome as of now. We have people zipping from every background, the oldest man who zipped with us was 75 yrs of age and the youngest one was this 5 and a half year old girl. It is quite interesting that we have more women clients rather than men.’
We meet Nilanajana Singhroy from Hyderabad, a 11 year old, hesitant yet excited as she is all belted up for her first zipline experience, she says, ‘I am excited as I heard so much about it from my cousin, but am a bit scared too as it is my first time on the zipline.’ When we meet at the end of the line, she is thrilled and proud of her achievement, its not always that you get to travel 600 mts in a blink of an eye!
