Sikkim (Articles)

• 1978 North Sikkim

  IT ALL began on a Sunday morning. Zerksis Boga and I were asking each other. Where to this year? Suddenly Sikkim was thrown open to Indian mountaineers. By a coincidence, I was reading a book on Sikkim and that helped us to make up our minds on a long trek  to North Sikkim.   more details…

• 2000 Chasing Circular Rainbows-Sandakhpu Trek

  “Have you trekked to Sandakphu ? Yangdu asked me. “It is one of the best treks in the world, uncle”. She had been calling me ‘uncle’, a title you receive as you age in India. Yangdu has a long experience of trekking, particularly around Darjeeling, having been born there. She has lived there for half her life.   more details…

• 2000 The Kangchenjunga Massif – A Brief History

  No visitor to Darjeeling can fail to notice the mighty range of mountains on the horizon. Whether moving on the mall or sitting at Chaurasta, one would certainly notice this great range of mountains. more details…

• 2000 In the Land of Five Treasures of Snow

  The Sikkim region of the Himalaya is so small that originally it was classified as part of Nepal Himalaya in the 1860s in a study conducted by Sir Sydney Burrard, the Surveyor-General of India from 1910 to 1919. more details…

• 2018 In Shadow on Kangchenjunga

  Kangchenjunga is the third highest peak in the world. It rises almost 12000 ft (3700 m) from Zemu glacier to its 28,165 ft (8585 m) summit. more details…

• 2012 The Plateau Sikkim

  This was my fifth visit to the mountains of Sikkim. As a young student I was part of the training course of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in 1964. The mountains of west Sikkim, like Kabru, Rathong, Pandim and host of others were attractive to my young eyes.   more details…

• 2015 An Autumn Trek to Tholung Monastery

  Lepchas, the original inhabitants of the valleys in North Sikkim, are known by different names; Rong (tribe name), Rongkup (children of Rong) and Mutanchi Rong (beloved people of God), and their land was called Mayal Lang (hidden Land or the land blessed by God). more details…

• 2020 Memories

  It seems like ages ago. Yes, I went there for my Basic Course in Mountaineering, in 1964! It was course no.43, I think. If you know the history of HMI (Himalayan Mountaineering Institute), this was the beginning decade. more details…