Tim Easton
Tim Easton
about the author
Tim Easton has been an adventurer most of his life, except perhaps for a twenty-year period of raising his three children in Brisbane, Australia. From the age of thirteen, he has hiked to some of the remotest parts of Lamington National Park and at nineteen he foregoes university studies to travel to Cape York Peninsula where he spent almost four months in remote places and three weeks of that time in Lockhart River Aboriginal Mission.
He has since traveled to England, Europe, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, China, United States, Canada and Zimbabwe. Brisbane has been his family base and where he has been an active member of the Brisbane Bushwalkers for nearly eight years.
He completed a Communication degree from Griffith University in 2000 and ran a radio program through Radio 4EB entitled Men’s and Women’s Stories for almost five years and 150 one-hour programs. These recordings have been saved with the intention of producing another book, telling these heartfelt stories of the men and women of that time.
Forthcoming publications include England, My Parents’ Birthplace and Australia, My Place.
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meet the author
If you would like to book
Tim Easton as a speaker at your
next event or for book signings or
media enquiries, please email him on
tjeaston3@gmail.com
PHOTO: Federation Peak, Eastern Arthurs, Tasmania
(The more significant Indigenous name: Luynikami country, Lutruwita)
21 days in the himalayas
This is the story of a twenty-one-day trek into some of the most extraordinary terrain on the planet. Tim trekked in November/December of 2017 to avoid the tens of thousands of visitors to this remarkable part of the world. With mountains soaring over 8,000 metres, and the largest frozen lake in the world for its almost 5,000 metre altitude, it is easy to see why people are drawn to this place.
However, it is not just this beautiful and still wild country that entices so many – but also the Nepalese people, who for over five thousand years have lived and thrived in this land known as Nepal and the Himalayas. Here the author spent all of the twenty-one days covering this book, then another nine days in Kathmandu, which is one of the most interesting cities the world over.
So be prepared for an adventure. Even with the ‘lumps and bumps’ that come with travel, nothing can take away from the sheer grandeur and beauty that are the Himalayan mountains, which continue to gain elevation every year due to the natural forces of the Earth’s tectonic plates.
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in the footsteps of the snow leopard
The Snow Leopard is Peter Matthiessen’s famous account of an unforgettable spiritual journey. Matthiessen, a student of Buddhism and at the time grieving the death of his wife, charted his deepening understanding of reality, suffering,
impermanence and beauty as he trekked through the Himalayas in search of the elusive snow leopard.
More than forty years later Tim Easton retraced Peter’s footsteps following the ancient trails on his own spiritual journey. Tim explores his samsara – the cycle of death and rebirth – his suffering, and his need for healing in this very special part of the world.
In the Footsteps of the Snow Leopard Tim follows Peter’s journey in the remote north-west Himalaya in the Dolpo region close to the Tibetan border, facing sub-zero temperatures and high altitude passes in the hope of spotting a snow leopard and hearing for himself the ‘silent heartbeat’ of Planet Earth.
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In the Footsteps of the Snow Leopard, Part II
In the latter part of 2025 Tim plans to return to Nepal when the weather is at its most stable to complete the journey of Peter Matthiessen in Upper Dolpo where a National Park has been declared for the protection of the Snow Leopard.
This national park is known as Shey Phoksundo and was the result of George Schaller’s work back in 1973 when he and Peter Matthiessen trekked to this region in search of the snow leopard. Schaller was a German biologist focussed on the study of the snow leopard whose near extinction was probably due to the excessive hunting of this most precious animal. It remains vulnerable to this day.
As part of this journey Tim plans to spend 21 days in Kopan Monastery and travel to five significant spiritual sites in Northern India; the birthplace of the Buddha, Lumbini, Varanasi, Bodh Gaya, Amritsar and Dharamsala.
In the Footsteps of the Snow Leopard, Part II will encapsulate this journey. Looking for publication in the latter part of 2026.
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contact
To book author talks, book signings or media enquiries contact Tim Easton at tjeaston3@gmail.com
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