Biographies of Harish Kapadia

• A Cloth Merchant Who Knows His Ropes by Kanak Mani Dixit

When Harish Kapadia’s businessmen friends think he is attending a dealers’ conference in Kanpur, he may well be melting ice for tea on a pass up at 18,000 feet in Kashmir. more details….

• Climb Every Mountain by Salil Tripathi

  Imagine this scene-a slightly balding, Gujju businessman sitting on the gaddi near the galla in a dukaan in Bhuleshwar market and then walking down the streets and chewing away a meetha Banarasi paan and hatting away the cloth prices. more details ….

• An Indian Gentleman Mountaineer by Stephan Venables

  When I first went climbing it was the inanimate geology of the mountains that drew me. more details ….