Apaar Mahajan, Founder of Gipfel, owes his line of work to the immense passion that he inculcated for mountains and outdoors during countless vacations that he spent throughout his childhood at his ancestral home in a Himalayan valley town of Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India. A precocious child, he was deeply intrigued and inspired by the mightiness of the peaks of Dhauladhar and Pir Panjal mountain ranges that were visible from the terrace of his ancestral home. Having spent many afternoons on the roof of the house, which was a loosely held arrangement of slippery, sloping, fluted tin sheets fastened together with screws, where no one else went except for occasionally visiting families of monkeys, Apaar developed solid interest in the mountains and outdoors. Because he was always told that the ‘jotein (in local dialect, pronounced – joh-tain)’ were too far to reach and no one ever went there those mysterious snowy mountains intrigued him even more and fueled his imagination. He never did actually step foot on those high peaks until the next decade. He grew up, earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering and his Masters at University of Oxford, UK.