Notes on Resilience, Leadership and Purpose
"Success is not a single peak — it is a series of ascents."
On a freezing morning in January 1990, Avinash Kaul — seventeen — fled Srinagar with his family, carrying whatever they could. Displaced, he studied in makeshift refugee-camp schools, and persevered. In The Next Mountain, he tells his story in his own unfiltered voice — from a summer internship that paid ₹100 a day to becoming one of India's youngest CEOs, and building the country's largest news network.
Part memoir, part field guide: just as the right tools ensure a mountaineer's success, this book offers guiding principles, real-world insight and strategy for charting your own ascent.
By Avinash Kaul, as told to Priya Kumar · HarperCollins · Published 13 July 2026
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“Fear can push. It cannot pull.”
It carried me much further than confidence ever did — until, much higher up the mountain than I expected, the question quietly changed from what I was running from to what I was climbing for.
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