Alex celebrated his 18th birthday in India on the river Ganges, where he worked for a period of seven months as a trip leader and safety kayaker on a number of rivers. He says that one of his favourite places in the world is the Golden Temple in the city of Amristar, also the home to the Sihk Gurus who invented Kundalini Yoga.
At the age of 18, Alex arrived in Kenya, East Africa to work as a trip leader on the many rivers arround the country. While here, Alex made the first descent of Mission Falls on the river Tana.
Over the years Alex returned to Kenya various times to run expedition trips and guide courses for the company, Savage Wilderness Safaris.
The River Orchy in Scotland is Alex´s home river. Alex grew up in Saudi Arabia for 8 years and on his return to Scotland his father sent him on a kayak course and this is how it all started. by the age of 11 years old, Alex had already trained up to be a raft guide, he was not only one of the first guides from Scotland but also the youngst. In the first years most rafting trips were run on the river Tay, until one day Alex convinced the boss to let him run trips on the river Orchy, now clasified as the best commercial rafting trip in the U.K.
Alex M Aitken, also known as Gurupal Singh, A Master of Kundalini Yoga, an extreme kayaker, an extrordinary expedition leader, photographer and explorer of rivers all over the globe. Father of a beutiful little girl named Padme Nam, Husband to a beutiful wife called Fabiola or Datta Kuar, simply just a nice guy, looking for adventures arround the globe.