Mountaineer and broadcaster Dermot Somers will launch his new book, Uncommon Ground: Adventures with Outsiders in Remarkable Terrain in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway on Friday, November 22.
The book will deal with themes such as nomadic journeys in Siberia, the Sahara, and the hazards of climbing the north faces of the European alps. The collection is grounded in the author’s personal experience of extreme landscape, ranging from the Arctic tundra to the Tibetan plateau.
Somers has presented many travel and adventure programmes for TG4 and RTÉ with Crossing the Line Films, including a series on nomadic journeys of the world, which took him to Siberia, the Sahara, Iran, Nepal and Tibet.
His work has been published and awarded in both English and Irish, some of his previous work including Mountains and Other Ghosts, 1990, Rince ar na Ballaí, 2002 (Duaisleabhar Oireachtais ) and Ar Muir is ar Sliabh, 2009.
