We understand that the very life blood of our business is based on those that help us all to achieve our goals. For remote expeditions, our Porter team are irreplaceable, the vital ingredient for a successful expedition.
For most Porter, life revolves around their village and the city they end or start their expedition in. Their world view and experiences are restricted to these places and their skills and training are limited to what they have learnt at the village level and what travel companies teach them.
No Roads is about to change all this. We are starting the first ever Porter Exchange Program where we will send Porters from one country, to trek with us in another. They will not go as Porters, but as trekkers.
The objectives of the Program are 3 fold:
1/ To give Porters the opportunity to see and experience other cultures and other adventures in the world.
2/ To give the Porters an opportunity to meet other Porters and to speak with each other in an environment of brotherhood. For Porters to meet and understand that they are part of an enormously important group that should be respected and protected.
3/ To obtain new skills that can be passed onto other Porters and villagers back home.
This year we will be sending PNG and Indonesian Porters on the Program. With the success of this program we hope to expand it in 2009 with Corporate support to send Porters all over the world, including Nepal, Fiji, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
More information about this program will be posted on the website in May 2008.
If the direction of the prevailing wind is known it can be used for maintaining direction - there are consistent patterns throughout the world that dominates at some seasons, and often all seasons. Where a strong wind always comes from the same direction plants and trees may be bent in one direction, clear evidence of the wind's orientation. Thus, if the prevailing wing is a northerly then trees maybe bent towards the south.
Congratulation to Susanne Mc Entire from the UK who correctly told us that
