Andy Dean

Andy is a geographical information systems and remote sensing scientist who has worked and travelled in several countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Andy is currently Vice President of PT Hatfield Indonesia, an environmental, forestry and geomatics consulting company based in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.

Andy implemented gunungbagging.com using WordPress and by extensively customising an existing WordPress theme; Andy also completed the prominence analysis using software tools and elevation data to systematically identify the Ribus and calculate their elevation and prominence. When not working, Andy is usually planning and making trips around Indonesia.

Daniel Quinn

Dan is an English teacher, researcher and editor based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dan is also a composer and music producer. He is currently Artistic Director for a gamelan recording project in Solo, Central Java. Previous projects include London-based avant-rock ensemble One More Grain and Edinburgh-based innovative music label Suilven Recordings.

Dan is the lead writer for gunungbagging.com and the coordinator of the content development, including compiling and editing user-submitted routes and photographs. When not focused on gunungbagging.com, Dan also contributes regularly to various cultural magazines and websites on a broad range of topics.

Dan aims to be the first person to bag a hundred Ribus.