Bill Aitken

William McKay Aitken (Bill Aitken) is a Scottish born, naturalized Indian travel writer and mountaineer. He is the author of a number of books about India, its mountains and its spiritual core.

Born in Stirling in Clackmannanshire in 1934, Aitken studied comparative theology at the University of Leeds and hitch-hiked to India in 1959.[4] Ever since, he has undertaken various trips around and across India, on motorbikes and steam railway, through India's Deccan and around Nanda Devi. Bill Aitken's writings are characterized by a free-wheeling description of his travels, interspersed with intimate details of the land and its people, and their religious beliefs. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was a regular contributor to Outlook Traveller, India's leading travel magazine. As to his love of the mountains, of which he has written much, he was an office bearer of the Himalayan Club (founded in 1928) in for several decades, and remains involved in the Club's activities especially as a curator of its collections. He was elected an Honorary Life Member of the Club, a rare honour accorded only to individuals such as Edmund Hillary and Chris Bonington.

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