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Junction of E Phunangma Glacier and South Argan Glacier with Sagtogpa Glacier

Against All Odds - A traverse across Glaciers and Mountains of the East Karakoram

When our six-member team of mountaineers from “The Himalayan Club”, accompanied ...

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Mountaineering - a forgotten Irish heritage

In 1922 Ireland’s bid for independence was ratified and as a result about four ...

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Siniolchu from the Zumthul Phuk glacier

The Exploration of Zumthul Phuk

Introduction This is the second of two articles describing exploration of the glaciers ...

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South Simvu: Kanchenjunga’s last kept Secret

“Maps, if caviare[1]  to the general, are, as Louis Stevenson has insisted, very ...

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Junction of E Phunangma Glacier and South Argan Glacier with Sagtogpa Glacier

When our six-member team of mountaineers from “The Himalayan Club”, accompanied by a cinematographer, set out from Rongdo, a quaint village in Ladakh, we had no idea of our final destination of where we would eventually land up. We had on a map, an audacious plan to traverse the Eastern […]

Against All Odds – A traverse across Glaciers and Mountains …

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In 1922 Ireland’s bid for independence was ratified and as a result about four fifths of the island of Ireland severed political ties with Great Britain. Up to that year any mountaineering  feat by an Irish man or woman could be legitimately claimed as a British achievement. As a result of this, […]

Mountaineering – a forgotten Irish heritage

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Siniolchu from the Zumthul Phuk glacier

Introduction This is the second of two articles describing exploration of the glaciers on the south-eastern flanks of Kanchenjunga. The previous article covers the South Simvu glacier, which was not even on maps until 1955; this is on the exploration of the Zumthul Phuk glacier and its legendary Rock Needles. […]

The Exploration of Zumthul Phuk

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“Maps, if caviare[1]  to the general, are, as Louis Stevenson has insisted, very suggestive to persons with proper imagination.” – Douglas Freshfield, Round Kangchenjunga, p-20 Story of maps and an invisible glacier For the last few years I have been trying to explore the valleys and glaciers of the south-eastern […]

South Simvu: Kanchenjunga’s last kept Secret

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Summary: During my first visit in 2001 to the Lepcha villages of north Sikkim and especially Dzongu1, I heard about a short, bipedal, hairy, shy creature living in the forest. They called it “Bon Manchi”, literally ‘man of forest’. This was enough to fuel my imagination and influenced my decision […]

Quest for the Bon Manchi: the Wildman of Sikkim

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Page 15 of the Times of India dated April 20, 2014 has a picture on the centre of the page. The caption reads “A Sherpa is comforted by a relative as she mourns the death of her father, one of the 13 Nepalese guides killed in the avalanche on Mount […]

Death on the Mountain

Life of ‘B’

Mid-November 2013. American Centre, New Delhi. Soon after a presentation by John Gans, Executive Director of the US-based National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), the floor was opened to a brief question and answer (Q&A) session. The former chief of an Indian mountaineering institute stood up and made an offer for […]

Life of ‘B’

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