CLUB PROCEEDINGS, 2004

THE HIMALAYAN CLUB COMMITTEE, 2004 (Founded on 17th Febreuary 1928)

OFFICERS


Dr. M. S. Gill

Suman Dubey Tanil Kilachand Meher Mehta

Ashwin Joglekar Divyesh Muni

Members of the Committee

Ravi Singh Ravi Mariwala Rishad Naoroji S.P.Mahadevia Vijay Crishna

Col. Ashok Abbey

AVM (Retd) A. K. Bhattacharyya

Harish Kapadia

Cdr. K. B. Singh

M. S. Soin

Additional Members of Balloting Committee

M. S. Soin

Kankan Ray

President Emeritus

J. C. Nanavati

Hon. Local Secretaries:

India Almora Bangalore Chandigarh Darjeeling Delhi

Dehera Dun Jammu & Kashmir Kolkata

Himanshu Pandey Deepak Arya Dr. P. M. Das Dorjee Lhatoo Mandip Singh Soin Sandeep Dutt Sat Paul Sahni Priyadarshi Gupta

Leh	Motup Chewang
Manali	Mahavir Thakur
Mumbai	Ms. Jasmine Hegde
Pune	Surendra Chauhan
Ranikhet	Krishnan Kutty
Shimla	Deepak Sanan
Nepal	Ms. Elizabeth Hawley
Pakistan	Nazir Sabir
Australia	Jim Dorington
France	Claude Gardien
New Zealand	John Nankervis
Great Britain	R. G. Pettegrew
Japan	Y. Matsuda
Spain	Jose Paytubi
South Africa	Dr. S. A Craven
Korea	Bae Seung Youl
Switzerland	Eric Bernhardt
Sweden	Ake Nilsson
U.S.A.	Donald Goodman
	Nicholas Clinch
	Paddy Iyer
Hon. Editor	Harish Kapadia
Hon. Asst. Editors	Ms. Nandini Purandare
	Ravi Mariwala
	Rajesh Gadgil (Production)
Hon. Librarian	Sudhir Sahi
Hon. Asst. Librarians
Mumbai	Shyam Samant
Kolkata	Debajyoti Bhattacharya
Hon. Equipment Officer	Rajendra Wani
Hon. Asst. Equipment Officers
Mumbai	Mangesh Chaudhury
Kolkata	Chandrashekhar Ghosh

Patrons of The Himalayan Club

General J.J. Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC

(Chief of Army Staff)

Ambani, Anil

Godrej, Adi

Mallya, Vijay

Trivedi, Kunj

Honorary Members of the Himalayan Club


Aitken, Bill Ali, Aamir Band, G.C. Bernhardt, Eric

Bonington, Sir Christian, C.B.E.

Braham, T. H.

Diemberger, Kurt

Gombu, Nawang

Guha, K. K.

Herzog, Maurice

Hillary, Sir Edmund, K.B.E.

Houston, Dr. C.S.

Inada, Sadashige

Kohli, Capt., M.S.

Lawford, R.

Lhatoo, Doijee

McNaught-Davis, Ian Matsuda, Yuichi, Moddie, A.D. Nakamura, Tamotsu Nangle, Col. F.E. Nyka, J. Ogata, Yoshio Otsuka, Hiroyoshi Pettigrew, Robert Ramchandani, Gulab Scott, Doug Singh, Gurdial

Streather, Lt. Col. H.R.A., O.B.E. Westmacott, M.H. Wylie, Lt. Col. C.G. Yoshida, Ko

CLUB NEWS

As usual it was active year, with many Sectional Meetings at Mumbai, Kolkatta, Delhi and London. The Himalayan Journal Vol. 60 was published in October 2004 while The Himalayan Club Newsletter 58 was published on 1 March 2004.

The Grindlays Bank Mountain Scholarships were awarded to various trainees. Many new books were added to the library.

The Club membership continues to grow beyond 800 members spread over various parts of the world and consisting of many leading mountaineers. The membership is open to all who are interested in any aspects of the Himalaya and are qualified to be members.

Full details and forms are available from Hon. Secretary, The Himalayan Club, Post Box No. 1905, Mumbai 400 001, India and on the website: www.himalayanclub.com
(Full details of the club activities in 2004 and the celebrations for the 50th Anniverssary of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga, organised by the Himalayan Club and at its sections are available in the Himalayan Club Newsletter 58).

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for the Himalayan Club, Post Box 1905, Mumbai 400 001 (India).

THE HIMALAYAN JOURNAL

Volume 61 (2005)

(incorporating the years 2003-2004)

Honorary Editor

HARISH KAPADIA

Honorary Assistant Editors

Nandini Purandare Ravi Mariwala Rajesh Gadgil (Production)

Assistance Business Rishad Naoroji S. P. Mahadevia