Climbing Ramabang

One Irish climber's explorations in the Himalaya and his overland trip home

Gerry Galligan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2013
Vicarious Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-909461-03-1 (ISBN)

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Climbing Ramabang is Gerry Galligan's bold travel diary recounting his and a small team of Irish mountaineers' attempts on unclimbed mountains in the remote corners of the Indian Himalaya.

Gerry Galligan's first book is a bold and expansive travel diary recounting his assembling of a small team of Irish mountaineers and their attempts on unclimbed mountains and unexplored valleys in the remote corners of the Indian Himalaya.

Getting there, the team see the hardships of the sub-continent, while in the mountains they experience storms, dangers and failure before ultimately, success and contentment. But it is when Gerry returns to the mountains alone and his subsequent experiences overlanding across Asia and Europe back to Ireland that we start to get a glimpse of the big, wide world out there. A world of temples, festivals, holy cows, Kalashnikovs, donkey herders, corruption, opportunists, stoners and sages. Gerry gives us an insight into the day-to-day lives of mountain peoples, the dysfunctional functionality of India. He finds charm and tolerance in Pakistan and a surprising openness in today's Iran. We travel across rural Turkey and work our way back to the efficient and affluent West, where right on cue Gerry meets his first breakdown on a German train.

Climbing Ramabang; One man's understanding of mountains, myth and mayhem.

Gerard Patrick Galligan was born in Donegal in 1966. He has climbed extensively at home, in Britain and in the Alps, and developed numerous rock climbs around Ireland. Among them Chasing the Dragon (Wicklow), Karmic Retribution (Burren) and Blind Faith (Connemara). Further afield he has climbed in Norway, the Rockies, Andes and Garhwal Himalaya. His films, Ramabang; No Man Before Us and Sufi have been widely acclaimed at International Mountain Film Festivals. He holds an MBA from Henley, works in the IT industry in Dublin, and has served as Chairman of the Irish Mountaineering Club.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.7.2013
Zusatzinfo	2x 8pp colour plates; 44 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Sheffield
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-909461-03-2 / 1909461032
ISBN-13	978-1-909461-03-1 / 9781909461031
Zustand	Neuware