Ashis Das met Abhik in college in Kolkata and thereafter the two drifted in various directions. His occasional disappearance in the midst of work to surface hours later in a remote hamlet in Darjeeling or Sikkim (and even Bangladesh, a fact he rarely admits!) baffled his bosses and family alike.

Chucked the rigours of the nine to five job for his first love – the mountains, he dived headlong into forming The Wanderers. Today, he is the backbone of the firm and is the ‘figures’ guy and work takes him to some incredible places in search of wilderness lodges & quality ‘chhang.’ He has forayed into off beat locales across the Himalayas, as well as places in Tasmania, Indonesia, China, Borneo, South Africa, Ireland, Italy, Finland, the Rockies etc and just ONE quality snap to establish his reputation as a photographer! (Of late, digital technlogy has come to his aid and he has come up with snaps that have finally met with critical acclaim!)