In Memoriam

• Aamir Ali

  Aamir Ali was truly an international man who kept his Indian roots firmly
  entrenched. He was from an illustrious Muslim Bohra family with Salim Ali and
  Zafar Futehali, great Ornithologist and Naturalist as his first cousins.
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• Ang Kami – a tribute

  At a very young age Ang Kami, born in a Sherpa family, lost his father who
  died on an expedition in Nepal. Though Kami family had migrated to Darjeeling
  some time ago, But many went back to work in Nepal. Hence Ang Kami (AK for
  short) started working as a Sherpa porter from a young age, same story for
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• Arun Samant

  Arun was good friend and we trekked together many years in late 1960s. He was
  an engineer and IIT graduate.
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• Ashwin Popat

  Ashwin Popat was a Life Member of the Himalayan Club. In a close-knit trekking community loss of a companion is always sad.
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• Dr P A Naik

  It was in late 1960s that I first met Dr. Prabhakar A. Naik. We were sleeping
  on a ledge on the fort of Chanderi in the Western Ghats.
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• Dr Parvin Shah

  We were young and boisterous. After a day of hard trekking in the local hills
  of the Western Ghats, we slept in the veranda of a local school.more details…

• Dr Vasant N. Desai

  We gathered around a warm campfire. The only person who spoke till the fire
  turned into ambers, was Vasant Desai.more details…

• Hukam Singh

  I first met Hukam Singh when he was already a well-known mountaineer. We
  exchanged several letters, notes and ideas about expeditions.more details…

• Jagdish Chandulal Nanavati

  He climbed no high peaks, for that matter, not even a small peak. He did not
  explore major ranges or undertake heroic adventures.
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• Jagdish Nanavati for Alpine Journal

  What was said about Beethoven was also true for Jagdish Chandulal Nanavati
  (JCN); ‘Talent is what a man possesses, Genius is what possesses a man !’more details…

• Kaivan Mistry

  It was the summer of 1990 and along with Harish Kapadia I was trekking in the
  Gangotri region.
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• Kunj Trivedi

  I met Kunjbhai, as we called him,  rather late in his long illustrious life.  As they say, it was long enough .more details…

• Martin Moran

  The death of Martin Moran in an avalanche alongwith 7 others is one of the
  most tragic events to have occurred in the Indian Himalaya.more details…

• Mavis Heath

  The letters suddenly stopped arriving. When I last heard from Mrs. Mavis
  Heath, she was in a hospital in Kenya. Finally, a brief fax message informed
  me that she had passed away in August 1994.more details…

• Nawang Gombu

  I am just back from the funeral of late Nawang Gombu, who was cremated at
  Darjeeling on Thursday, 28th April 2011.more details…

• Nawang Kapadia

  Nawang Kapadia was not an extraordinary person. But he dreamt. His dream was
  to serve India, and in doing so he reached from ordinary to extraordinary.
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• Ryuji Hayashibara

  Ryuji san was a member of the Himalayan Club for several years. He had a deep
  interest in the Karakoram glaciers.
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• S P Godrej

  I knew S.P. Godrej, or Spji as he was sometimes called with honour, as some
  one who was interested in mountains and mountaineers.
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• Susan Band

  Most of the events in the life of Mrs Susan George Band, revolved around her
  husband. George Band, a leading mountaineer of his time and the youngest
  member of the 1953 Everest expedition, who made the first ascent of
  Kangchenjunga in 1955.more details…

• T H Braham

  Memories march on, memories also stay on. This is true in the case of a legend
  such as Mr Trevor Braham. Luckily, he has left a good record of his memories-
  three books, several articles in the Himalayan Journal and about two hours of
  recording of “Oral History”.
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• Thrity Birdy

  THRITY and I were together in the University for six yearn but I hardly
  remember her except as ‘just another’ girl in my class, But in 1969 she was
  introduced to the mountain:, and after a quiet start with training courses at
  Darjeeling, she took the climbing world by storm. In 1972, we trekked together
  to Kalla Pathar and the Everest Base Camp. In 1974, she led an expedition to
  Deo Tibba and climbed her first Himalayan peak;
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