Kuntal Joisher combines the distinction of being an avid and a passionate mountaineer as well as a high end computer science and engineering professional. He has scaled some of the toughest and tallest mountains of the world. Alumni of Vivekanand Institute of Technology - Mumbai, and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Los Angeles, today he juggles his career as a Software Engineer at CallFire Inc, and his passion for mountain exploration, becoming the first Indian Gujarati to summit Mt. Everest, and only the second Indian civilian to climb and summit Mt. Manaslu, the 8th highest mountain in the world. Joisher has completed several challenging and exciting mountain expeditions in the Himalaya of Nepal and India, Chilean Patagonia, and the Western Ghats in Maharashtra. Joisher is also an accomplished photographer and many of his photographic conquests have received international acclaim including National Geographic, Flickr Explore, BBC Earth, Space.com, EarthSky, Himalayan Journal, and the Indian Mountaineer magazine. Apart from mountaineering and photography, Joisher is passionate about two causes - a) raising awareness about the disease of Dementia, and b) spreading the message of Veganism and Vegetarianism, and prove to everyone that Vegetarians can achieve success in all fields including mountain climbing.