CORRESPONDENCE

The Editor,

The Himalayan Journal,

c/o  The Himalayan Club,

P.O. Box 1905,

Mumbai – 400001.

Sir,

I read with keen interest, your article entitled ‘A Trek  in Tawang Tract’ based on your walk along the Indian portion of the Bailey Trail which appeared in the well produced 75^th anniversary issue, HJ Vol.60. My congratulations. 

Reading it, I was reminded of my own climbs, walks and exploration in the Arunachal Himalaya along the McMahon Line. I had  written extensive notes on the natural history and travels along the McMahon Line which included an account of exploration of Kangto and the first ascents in the Gorichen group of peaks. These are recorded in published articles in the Himalayan Journal Vol. 50 entitled ‘Travels in the Arunachal Himalaya’. (Page 84). H.J.  Vol 51 page 181 records ‘Exploration and climbs in the East Kameng, 1994’. These H.J’s may be referred to by the interested mountaineers.

A photograph of Kangto was also sent but was not published and is probably with your ‘editor’s papers’ and there is a video film-recording of my team’s exploratory work done from this approach which should be available in H.M.I. Darjeeling.

Yours etc.

Dr P.M. Das

Camp Faridkot

* Only line drawings were received, which are printed in the article. No photographs were  received with the above articles and there are none available  in the records of the  Himalayan Club. – ed