This book will be of interest to many – enthusiasts of Uttarakhand and the Himalayas, those of a scientific bent who might be curious about how pioneering scientists of BARC lived their lives, and also young minds who can learn from him to shine through hardships without fussing. The book also doubles up as a travel book with the varied details he gives about all the places he has travelled across India and the world either for reasons of science or just because he and his wife Kamla had the travel bug! By the end of the book, the readers will have developed a huge respect for the man who could write this book at the age of 90, for his memory, for his perseverance, for his sincerity and his disciplined life. It is a simple life which has achieved what it has, not with sudden luck or prosperity, but slowly and surely one step at a time.