Flag Hill climbing : Woodstock's outdoor education, Mussoorie
  • 5 years ago
Flag Hill is located around five kilometers east of Mussoorie just off Tehri Road. The hill is littered with granite boulder formations, offering great opportunities for beginners of the sport right through to the more advanced climber. The boulders started to be climbed by Suman Mitra and students from Woodstock School early in 2010. Ben Windsor searched extensively over the hill later in the year and discovered the potential of cleaning and setting up a guide for the place. There are a variety of styles and something for every boulder-lover on the hill. There are four areas of the hill that are covered within this guide.

Source - http://www.woodstockschool.in/page.cfm?p=537

Landour lies far higher in a more rarified atmosphere, and consists of a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the "Queen of the Hills". The name Landour is drawn from Llanddowror, a village in Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales. During the Raj, it was common to give nostalgic English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish names to one's home (or even to British-founded towns), reflecting one's ethnicity. Names drawn from literary works were also common, as from those by Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others.

Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun District of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is located about 35 km from the state capital of Dehradun and 290 km north from the national capital of New Delhi. This hill station, situated in the foothills of the Garhwal Himalayan ranges, is also known as the Queen of the Hills. The adjoining town of Landour, which includes a military cantonment, is considered part of 'greater Mussoorie', as are the townships of Barlowganj and Jharipani.

Source - Wikipedia

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