Breaking Rocks and Barriers : Memoirs of a Geologist and Mountaineer
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9362137216
ISBN-13
9789362137210
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers India
Imprint
HarperCollins Publishers India
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 5th, 2024
Print length
288 Pages
Product Classification:
Memoirs
Ksh 3,150.00
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A pioneering geologist and a mountaineer trained by Tenzing Norgay, Sudipta Sengupta is one of the first Indian women to set foot on Antarctica and one of only nineteen women so far to be awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (1991).
In Breaking Rocks and Barriers, she narrates her many adventures as a geologist studying and doing fieldwork in remote areas around the world--from unexpected encounters with snakes in the Jaduguda mines of Bihar and trekking across a ''black glacier'' in Norway to being engulfed by a thundercloud in Sweden and being greeted by a flock of penguins in Antarctica. In between are memorable mountaineering experiences, whether it is the first women''s expedition to Ronti peak in the Himalayas in 1967 or the all-women expedition to an unexplored peak, which they were the first to climb and name.
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