Make wilderness skill and good maps available to every hiker in India.
Hikex is an outdoor-education and mapping organization. We want a generation of Indians who can plan, navigate and travel through wild country on their own — safely, responsibly, and for the love of it.
India has extraordinary terrain and almost no open infrastructure for the independent hiker — few reliable maps, little structured education, and a culture that treats the outdoors as something you must be taken into rather than something you can learn to enter on your own.
We’re changing that. Hikex publishes free trail data, builds open maps, and offers serious paid instruction for people who want to go further. The Epic Sahyadri Trail is our first flagship dataset; an open mapping platform is next.
Self-sufficiency over dependence
We don’t sell guided tours. We teach you to read terrain, plan, and stay safe so you never need to be guided again.
Open where it counts
Core trail data and maps are free. We charge only for deep instruction and community — never for the right to be outdoors.
Safety is a skill, not luck
Risk management, navigation and decision-making are learnable. We make them teachable and repeatable.
Leave no trace
Everything we publish promotes low-impact, responsible travel through fragile landscapes.
Want to build this with us?
We’re a young organization looking for surveyors, writers, mappers and educators who know the hills.