Romesh Bhattacharji has been trekking in Kashmir since his yearsin Delhi's St Stephen's College in the 1960s. His last trek was in 2012,forty-eight years after the first one. He continued his trysts with this fabledbut tormented land even after he became a bureaucrat. His last posting as ChiefCommissioner Customs, Amritsar, included Kashmir in his beat.
Bhattacharji is well known as a high-altitude trekker who hasdiscovered trekking routes for mountaineers, and is said to be a phenomenal, ‘walking-talkingencyclopaedia' on the Himalayas. He is also an avid photographer and has overthe decades amassed a vast cache of photographs. He has previously authoredbooks on Ladakh and India's Northeast.
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