About Sharath Vishnu
Sharath Vishnu spent the last decade hiking over five thousand kilometers across various mountain ranges of India - primarily in the Himālaya and the Sahyādri - and cycling more than twenty five thousand kilometers across diverse geographies of the Indian sub-continent.
Sharath started his career as a mountain guide in Karnataka at the age of seventeen and completed his Basic & Advance Mountaineering Courses from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering before turning twenty. He then moved to the Himālaya where he has been working with White Magic Adventure Travel, which has given him an opportunity to go on multiple treks and climbing expeditions - across Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Nepal.
He is passionate about cycle-touring - as it gives an unparalleled immersive experience of the country and its people - and has undertaken over 10 self-supported cycle tours, along with pioneering winter cycling tours in Ladakh and Spiti Valley. His major accomplishment was a solo circumambulation of Bhārata on a cycle - spanning 13,810kms over 20 months between 2023-2025 - visiting all the kshetras mentioned in the text ‘Tīrtha Prabandha’ composed by Sri Vādiraja Tīrtha nearly 500 years ago.
Sharath holds a Masters degree in Indian Philosophy from MAHE, Manipal and is an ardent student of Madhvāchārya’s Tatvavāda. He is trained in wilderness medicine, paragliding and is also a student of Bānsuri.
