CLUB PROCEEDINGS

THE HIMALAYAN CLUB COMMITTEE, 2005

(Founded on 17th February, 1928)

OFFICERS
President	Dr. M. S. Gill
Vice-Presidents	Tanil Kilachand Meher H. Mehta Col. Ashok Abbey
Honorary Treasurer	Rajendra Wani
Honorary Secretary	Divyesh Muni
Members of Committee
Vijay Crishna	Motup Chewang
AVM (Retd) A. K. Bhattacharyya	Ravi Singh
Harish Kapadia	Cdr. K. B. Singh
M. S. Soin	Rishad Naoroji
Dr. Ravi Mariwala	S. P. Mahadevia
Additional Members of Balloting Committee
Monesh Devjani	Maninder Singh Kohli
Wing Cdr V. K. Sashindran (Dr)
President Emeritus
J. C. Nanavati
Honorary Local Secretaries
India:
Almora	Himanshu Pandey
Bangalore	Deepak Arya
Darjeeling	Dorjee Lhatoo
Delhi	Mandip Singh Soin
Dehra Dun	Sandeep Dutt
Jammu and 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
Honorary Editor	Harish Kapadia
Honorary Assistant Editor	Ms. Nandini Purandare Dr. Ravi Mariwala Rajesh Gadgil
Honorary Librarian	Sudhir Sahi
Hon. Asstt. Librarian
Bombay	Shyam Samant
Calcutta	Debajyoti Bhattacharya
Hon. Equipment Officer	Rajendra Wani
Hon. Asstt. Equipment Officer
Mumbai	Mangesh Chaudhary
Calcutta	Chandrashekhar Ghosh
Web Master	Sanjay Khatau
E-Letter Compilers	Ms. Jasmine Hegde Maninder Kohli
E-Group Moderator	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	McNaught-Davis, Ian
Ali, Aamir	Matsuda, Yuichi,
Band, G.C.	Moddie, A.D.
Bernhardt, Eric	Nakamura, Tamotsu
Bonington, Sir Christian, C.B.E.	Nangle, Col. F.E.
Braham, T. H.	Nyka, J.
Diemberger, Kurt	Ogata, Yoshio
Gombu, Nawang	Otsuka, Hiroyoshi
Guha, K. K.	Pettigrew, Robert
Herzog, Maurice	Ramchandani, Gulab
Hillary, Sir Edmund, K.B.E.	Scott, Doug
Houston, Dr. C.S.	Singh, Gurdial
Inada, Sadshige	Streather, Lt. Col. H.R.A., O.B.E.
Kohli, Capt., M.S.	Westmacott, M.H.
Lawford, R.	Wylie, Lt. Col. C.G.
Lhatoo, Dorjee	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
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Printed in India by Printpoint, 134, Pragati Industrial Estate, 316, N. M. Joshi Marg, Lower Parel (E), Mumbai - 400 011, Designed by Reflections and published 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 Editor
Nandini Purandare
Ravi Mariwala
Rajesh Gadgil

Assistance
Business

Rishad Naoroji
S. P. Mahadevia

Designer
Business

Aparna Joshi

THE HIMALAYAN CLUB ACTIVITIES

Publications

The Himalayan Journal

Published since 1929, it is the most authentic and authoritative reference on the activities in the Himalaya.

The Himalayan Club Newsletter

Published since 1951 the Newsletter covers the climbs, news and views about the Himalaya.

E Letter

Keeping with the modem trend the E Letter was started since 2005. It is sent electronically through E mails.

The Himalayan Club Website : www.himalayanclub.com

The exhaustive Web site covers various aspects related to the Club. The Himalayan Club Yahoo Group, is gathering of like minded members of HC on the Web, open for all to register and communicate.

Libraries

Himalayan Club Libraries at New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata

The Himalayan Club principle library of books is at the India International Center, Max Muller Road, Lodi Estate, New Delhi. Sub-libraries operate at Mumbai and Kolkata. Soli Mehta Library is located at Mumbai.

Events

Lecture Series; Arun Samant Memorial Lectures, Kaivan Mistry Memorial Lectures, Sarat Chandra Das Memorial Lectures are held annually.

Annual Seminars are held at Mumbai and Kolkata, London Re-unions are held annually, Annual Dinner held in Mumbai, Workshops and Lectures on various Himalayan subjects are held often.

Kekoo Naoroji Book Award

The award was started by the Naoroji family in memory of Kekoo Naoroji. It is given to an outsatnding on book on mountains publsihed during the year.

Sponsorships

Expedition Sponsorship is given to expeditions organised by HC members; Standard Chartered Bank Mountain Scholarship, Kesarbai Kilachand Scholarship and J. B. Waller Equipment Fund are offered to needy students
for training.

THE HIMALAYAN CLUB CENTRE

314, Turf Estate, Shakti Mills Lane,
Off Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi West, Mumbai - 400 OIl, India.
Phone (91 22) 2491 2829
Email: hc@himalayanclub.com Website: www.himalayanclub.com

The headquarters of the Club is situated in a central locality, in heart of Mumbai. All are invited to visit and take advantage of the facilities offered and view the displays. It is open every day from 11 a.m. to 6 pm and staff is available to help.

Displays

The Himalayan Club and its officers, Pictorial history of the Himalaya Club, The Himalayan Journal and its editors, from 1929. Himalayan Achievers Galley, map depicting all 8000 m peaks in the Himalaya, marking their locations on a large map and also showing the countries with the Himalayan Club representatives, display of Tiger Badge and Himalayan Club Logo, with its meaning and historical importance. Special exhibitions: at present on Nanda Devi

Reference Material

Lt. Nawang Kapadia Map Library- containing a large collection of maps. Lt. Nawang Kapadia Visual Library- contains videos, DVDs on mountains. The Himalayan Club library, Editor's Papers articles, photos, maps received for the Himalayan Journal. Archives of historical photos, papers and mementos.

Activities

Meetings and lectures organised by the Club, including meetings of the Managing Committee are held at HCC. The HCC is open to all and any member or others are welcome to visit.

Special Events

Special celebrations held by the Club: for the Golden Jubilee (1978) (50th year), 60th year (1988), the new Millennium(2000) and the 75th year (2003).

Special books were published by the Club and few of these titles were sent complimentary to entire membership: Exploring the Hidden Himalaya (Soli Mehta and Harish Kapadia), Garhwal (Jashbhai Patel), A Passage to Himalaya (Harish Kapadia, editor), The Himalayan Expedition Planning Book (Arun Samant) The Himalayan Club CD Rom (Harish Kapadia, editor) on history of the Club and collections from the Himalayan Journals. Himalayan Vignettes (K.N. Naoroji) Touching Upon the Himalaya (Bill Aitken)

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