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. He has also cycled more than twenty five thousand kilometers across diverse geographies of the 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 multiple self-supported cycling tours, often solo. He has cycled across the Sahyādris of Karnātaka and Mahārāshtra; through the Kathiyavād peninsula and the Rann of Kutch in Gujarāt, across the Thār desert in Rājasthan; to the mountains of Uttarakhand; through the Gangetic plains, following the Gangā from its source in Uttarākhand upto its delta in the Bay of Bengal, via Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jhārkhand; across Odisha via Chilika Lagoon and Mahendragiri ranges; across the eastern ghats of Andhra Pradesh between Krishna and Suvarnamukhi rivers; to parts of Nīlagiri hills in Tamil Nādu and across the coast of Kerala from Kanyakumārī to Kasargod. He has also done pioneering winter cycling tours in Ladakh and Spiti Valley.
Sharath holds a Masters degree in Indian Philosophy from MAHE, Manipal and is an ardent student of Madhvācārya’s Tatvavāda. He is also a student of Indian Classical Music and has briefly learnt the Bānsuri and the Tabala.
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