David Jardine
*) Southeast Asia-based writer.

“And sooner than part from the mountains/ I think I’d rather be dead”
— The Manchester Rambler by Ewan McColl

DANIEL Patrick Quinn is a young man with a mission, a fellow in a hurry. The English-language teacher from Port Carlisle in the United Kingdom may only have been in Indonesia some nine months but he has already scaled more mountain peaks in the country than anybody, Indonesian or e