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Climbing Ramabang: One Irish climber's explorations in the Himalaya and his overland trip home
Climbing Ramabang: One Irish climber's explorations in the Himalaya and his overland trip home
Climbing Ramabang: One Irish climber's explorations in the Himalaya and his overland trip home
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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.
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Release dateJul 17, 2013
ISBN9781909461048
Climbing Ramabang: One Irish climber's explorations in the Himalaya and his overland trip home

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