CLUB PROCEEDINGS

THE HIMALAYAN CLUB COMMITTEE,2005 (Founded on 17th Febreuary, 1928)


OFFICERS President Vice Presidents

Dr. M. S. Gill

Tanil Kilachand Meher Mehta Col. Ashok Abbey

Hon. Treasurer Hon. Secretary

Rajendra Wani Divyesh Muni Members of the Committee

Vijay Crishna

AVM (Retd) A. K. Bhattacharyya Harish Kapadia M. S. Soin Dr. Ravi Mariwala

Motup Chewang Ravi Singh Cdr. K. B. Singh Rishad Naoroji S.P.Mahadevia

Additional Members of Balloting Committee

Monesh Devjani Maninder Singh Kohli

Wing Cdr V. K. Sashindran (Dr)

President Emeritus

Hon. Local Secretaries:

India

Almora

Bangalore

Darjeeling

Delhi

J. C. Nanavati

Himanshu Pandey Deepak Arya Doijee Lhatoo Mandip Singh Soin

Dehra Dun	Sandeep Dutt
Jammu & Kashmir	Sat Paul Sahni
Manali	Mahavir Thakur
Mumbai	Ms. Jasmine Hegde
Kolkata	Priyadarshi Gupta
Shimla	Deepak Sanan
Leh	Motup Chewang
Pune	Dr. Raghunath Godbole
Ranikhet	Krishnan Kutty
Nepal	Ms. Elizabeth Hawley
Pakistan	Nazir Sabir
Australia	Jim Dorington
France	Claude Gardien
New Zealand	John Nankervis
Great Britain	R. G. Pettigrew
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
	Dr. Ravi Mariwala
	Rajesh Gadgil
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

Web Master E-Letter Compilers

E-Group Moderator

Sanjay Khatau Ms. Jasmine Hegde Maninder Kohli

Cdr. K. B. Singh

Patrons of The Himalayan Club

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, Dorjee

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 an active year, with many Sectional Meetings at Mumbai, Kolkatta, Delhi and London. The Himalayan Journal Vol. 61 was published in November 2005 while The Himalayan Club Newsletter 59 was published in March 2005.

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 CENTRE 314, Turf Estate, Shakti Mills Lane off E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai 400 011, India E-mail: info@himalayanclub.com Website: www.himalayanclub.com Phone 91-22 2491 2829

(Full details of the club activities in 2005 and the celebrations organised by the Himalayan Club and at its sections are available in the

Himalayan Club Newsletter 59).

For Purchase of the Himalayan Journal and Trade Inquiries contact Oxford University Press 67, C.S.T. Road Vidyanagari PO Kalina, Santacruz (E) Mumbai 400 098 Phone: 91-22-2697 3891/92, 2652 1034/35 Fax: 91-22-2652 1133 www.oupin.com
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by Divyesh Muni, Hon. Secretary for the Himalayan Club, 314, Turf Estate, Shakti Mills Lane off E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai 400 011, India.

THE HIMALAYAN JOURNAL

Volume 62 (2006)

(incorporating the years 2005-2006)

Honorary Editor

HARISH KAPADIA

Honorary Assistant Editors

Nandini Purandare Ravi Mariwala Rajesh Gadgil

Assistance Business Rishad Naoroji S. P. Mahadevia

Designer Aparna Joshi