“bill aitken footloose in himalaya summary”

The Himalayan Journal (HJ), published since 1929, had a series ofleading editors over the years and it is an authoritative and exhaustive recordon the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindukush, for exploration, mountaineering andsport. Ofthe several leading authors who have contributed articles in the HJ t... More

Away from over-used tourist trails and trekking routes, Bill Aitken wanders through the Himalaya. His inclination is to enter disused colonial dak bungalows and ruined temples, meander in wild glades above the treeline carpeted with wild flowers, filling his water bottle from mountain springs and wa... More

Himalayan Quiz covers the entire spectrum of the Himalayas from the East to the West and deals with history, geography, life style, religion, ecology and sports of the region.Bill Aitken came to India from Britain as a student of Comparative Religion in 1959. The moment he set eyes on the Himalayas ... More

‘This biography bears testimony to the enduring relevance of the sacred in our times' — Afternoon Despatch Born into a poor family in the village of Puttaparthi in southern Andhra Pradesh, Sathyanarayan Raju was a bright, talented and confident boy whose charitable nature and religiosity belied ... More

Zanskar must be India’s most unlikely landscape. It is certainly India’s least known province, totally locked within a ring of mountains, north of the Great Himalayan crest. Zanskar is emphatically gompa country where a dozen monasteries, great and small, play a crucial societal role; in... More

The part one of the volume pertains to general geology and tectonics onregional basis in various sectors of the Himalaya. It is said that the geologyof the Himalaya can be better understood if you also know the geology of theother surrounding ranges. Such types of research articles form the contents... More