c u on top - satyabrata dam

As a kid I was really young, restless, full of wild ideas and curious to the point of being ridiculous. To seek what lies within, I broke, smashed, untangled, unscrewed and decimated every piece of gadget that my father owned, be it a camera, watch, radio, fridge. Just about anything that ticked or tocked or purred mysteriously. Then at the impressionable age of four (my renaissance), my father did two things that changed my life forever. He bought me a gigantic globe and he took me to the Himalaya. I quite liked kicking and gnawing the plastic ball till he showed me how it was not meant for kicking around the house but it depicted the earth on which we all lived and traveled. He showed me India and some of the main cities. Of course, my birthplace did not find mention on that ball. Then he showed me the oceans and the seas and the continents and told me about the people who lived in those places. Suddenly my curiosity about the world around leaped quantumly from the household gadgets ...

Hi, I am a globe trotting thrill seeker. I specialize in vertical traveling. I prefer going to places that have mountains, higher the better and attempt to climb the highest spot of any place I visit. This strange quest has taken me to the summit of some of the highest peaks in the seven continents and more than 100 countries. Since I am not Superman, I travel over land, sea and through air using any means of transportation known and unknown to civilized man. If nothing else, my legs carry me across peaks and passes through some of the remotest and least known points on Earth. In my early forties, I have been global-gallivanting for three decades now and I am only now beginning to discover how vast, how amazing and how beautiful our world is. My travels across boundaries have shown me that it is indeed one planet and we all should ideally be one big happy family. I want to reach out to all the happy and go-lucky people out there, either active travelers or armchair enthusiasts, who sha...