Catriona Richards | January 30, 2012
For
anyone looking for a challenge in the New Year, here’s a record to
beat: British hiker Daniel Quinn climbed 14 mountains in Indonesia last
year, bringing his total number of conquered peaks to 49 since he
arrived here three years ago — and that’s not including the 21 hills,
volcanoes and other peaks he attempted along the way. His motivation? To
upload information on Indonesia’s lesser-known hiking spots to the Web
site Gunung Bagging (gunungbagging.com), started by Quinn and fellow
hiker Andy Dean in 2009.
The name comes from the century-old British tradition of “mountain bagging” (gunung is the Indonesian word for mountain), whereby hikers challenge one another to conquer a checklist of peaks categorized by topographic prominence. It is called “bagging” because each peak conquered is another one “in the bag” for the hiker.
The name comes from the century-old British tradition of “mountain bagging” (gunung is the Indonesian word for mountain), whereby hikers challenge one another to conquer a checklist of peaks categorized by topographic prominence. It is called “bagging” because each peak conquered is another one “in the bag” for the hiker.
