Mr Ian P Johnson

Ian P Johnson is a trekker, mountaineer and author who has visited the Himalayas four times. The first visit was as a member of the 1989 British Langtang Lirung Expedition. The second time was to trek the Annapurna Circuit, taking photos and making watercolour sketches along the way. On day one, seeing that the trekking guidebook he had was useless, he threw it away, and as he trekked, wrote and illustrated his first guidebook "Trekking the Annapurna Circuit and Annapurna Sanctuary".

Ian followed this book with "The Langtang and Helambu Trek" which satisfied his ambition to start a trek in the Kathmandu Valley itself. Finally Ian wrote and researched "The Everest Trek" guidebook, also filming the DVD guidebook along the way.

Ian has also co-written "The Secret Diary of a Backpacker" based upon a series of humorous newspaper columns he wrote in Bondi, satirizing the tourist lifestyle in Bondi Beach, Australia.