Walk With Shiva by Giresh Vasudev Kulkarni is part spiritual memoir, part practical handbook for the Mount Kailash yatra—a mountain millions of Bhagwan Shiva devotees spend their entire lives hoping to see once.
About Walk With Shiva
Mount Kailash, rising at 6638 metres on the Tibetan plateau, is not merely a place. It is a reckoning with the body, with faith, and with everything the self has been quietly avoiding. Giresh Vasudev Kulkarni made the journey at 87 kilograms, with a heart condition and no mountaineering experience. Walk With Shiva takes the reader from the first inner stirring of the call through the sankalp, the Mansarovar bath, the three-day parikrama and the crossing of Dolma La, to the forty days of transformed living that follow the return.
Published under the India Penguin Ananda imprint of Penguin Random House India, this 240-page hardback (ISBN 9789377307295) is scheduled for November 2026 with an India MRP of ₹499. For those planning the yatra, waiting for the call, or returned and still naming what changed, Mount Kailash asks the same question: are you ready to find out who you are when everything unnecessary is removed? For Mount Kailash does not wait for the convenient moment. Neither should you.
