Author: Harish Kapadia
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173870965
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya
Author: Harish Kapadia
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173870965
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173870965
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Across Peaks & Passes in Himachal Pradesh
Author: Harish Kapadia
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173870996
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Complete With Several Maps, Illustrated With Many Photographs, Tables Of Road Distances And Trek Routes. This Book Is An Exhaustive Reference Work On Himachal Pradesh.
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173870996
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Complete With Several Maps, Illustrated With Many Photographs, Tables Of Road Distances And Trek Routes. This Book Is An Exhaustive Reference Work On Himachal Pradesh.
Across Peaks & Passes in Garhwal Himalaya
Author: Harish Kapadia
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173870972
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The book contains articles covering the author's treks and climbs in the remote valleys of Garhwal during the past forty years, most pioneering explorations. There are stories of crossing passes and climbing peaks, accidents and deaths, personal injury and agony. These articles give an insight into the Himalayan areas, their history, its people and the period of development of Himalayan climbing in India during the last many decades.For a trekker there are various suggestions in this book, for discovering different passes, many unknown valleys, and the history of travel, people, culture and nomenclature of the area. There are invaluable references to hordes of peaks, both most challenging and easy, between 6000 m and 7000 m range. And for an armchair mountaineer there are personal stories, and interaction with climbers of different nationalities.With maps, line sketches, photographs and many references, the book will be an invaluable guide to all present and future mountaineers.
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173870972
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The book contains articles covering the author's treks and climbs in the remote valleys of Garhwal during the past forty years, most pioneering explorations. There are stories of crossing passes and climbing peaks, accidents and deaths, personal injury and agony. These articles give an insight into the Himalayan areas, their history, its people and the period of development of Himalayan climbing in India during the last many decades.For a trekker there are various suggestions in this book, for discovering different passes, many unknown valleys, and the history of travel, people, culture and nomenclature of the area. There are invaluable references to hordes of peaks, both most challenging and easy, between 6000 m and 7000 m range. And for an armchair mountaineer there are personal stories, and interaction with climbers of different nationalities.With maps, line sketches, photographs and many references, the book will be an invaluable guide to all present and future mountaineers.
Across Peaks & Passes in Ladakh, Zanskar & East Karakoram
Author: Harish Kapadia
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173871009
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173871009
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Across Peaks & Passes in Darjeeling & Sikkim
Author: Harish Kapadia
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173871269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173871269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An Eye at the Top of the World
Author: Pete Takeda
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786732873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects -- one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna -- plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped from its moorings by an avalanche, the jumbled apparatus slides down a funnel-shaped hourglass of hard snow and shoots over a black cliff band, careening a vertical distance six times the height of the Empire State building. The boxes come to rest on the glacier at the mountain's base. One, an olive-drab casing the size of a personal computer, begins to sink. Then, trailing a robotic dogtail of torn wires, it slowly burns through the snow, melting into solid blue glacial ice, eventually disappearing beneath the surface, and never seen again. No one actually witnessed this event. But as you read these words, nearly four pounds of plutonium -- locked in the glacier's dark unknowable heart -- are almost certainly moving ever closer to the source of the Ganges River. Eye at the Top of the World, provides a harrowing present-day account of Takeda's expedition to solve the mystery of Nanda Devi.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786732873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects -- one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna -- plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped from its moorings by an avalanche, the jumbled apparatus slides down a funnel-shaped hourglass of hard snow and shoots over a black cliff band, careening a vertical distance six times the height of the Empire State building. The boxes come to rest on the glacier at the mountain's base. One, an olive-drab casing the size of a personal computer, begins to sink. Then, trailing a robotic dogtail of torn wires, it slowly burns through the snow, melting into solid blue glacial ice, eventually disappearing beneath the surface, and never seen again. No one actually witnessed this event. But as you read these words, nearly four pounds of plutonium -- locked in the glacier's dark unknowable heart -- are almost certainly moving ever closer to the source of the Ganges River. Eye at the Top of the World, provides a harrowing present-day account of Takeda's expedition to solve the mystery of Nanda Devi.
A Grammar of Darma
Author: Christina Willis Oko
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004409491
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Grammar of Darma provides the first comprehensive description of this Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, India. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework and draws on a corpus of data gathered through elicitation, observation and recordings of natural discourse. Every effort has been made to describe day-to-day language, so whenever possible, illustrative examples are taken from extemporaneous speech and contextualized. Sections of the grammar should appeal widely to scholars interested in South Asia’s languages and cultures, including discussions of the socio-cultural setting, the sound system, morphosyntactic, clause and discourse structure. The grammar’s interlinearized texts and glossary provide a trove of useful information for comparative linguists working on Tibeto-Burman languages and anyone interested in the world’s less-commonly spoken languages.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004409491
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Grammar of Darma provides the first comprehensive description of this Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, India. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework and draws on a corpus of data gathered through elicitation, observation and recordings of natural discourse. Every effort has been made to describe day-to-day language, so whenever possible, illustrative examples are taken from extemporaneous speech and contextualized. Sections of the grammar should appeal widely to scholars interested in South Asia’s languages and cultures, including discussions of the socio-cultural setting, the sound system, morphosyntactic, clause and discourse structure. The grammar’s interlinearized texts and glossary provide a trove of useful information for comparative linguists working on Tibeto-Burman languages and anyone interested in the world’s less-commonly spoken languages.
The Himalayan Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A Passage to Himalaya
Author: Harish Kapadia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Exploring the Highlands of Himalaya
Author: Harish Kapadia
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description