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Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture Series on Exploring Indian Himalaya


The 1st Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture will be held on the evening of Saturday,8th March, 2014. The venue is Rotary Sadan, Kolkata. The theme of this lecture series in its first year is 'Exploring the Indian Himalaya'. The duration of the evenings programmes will be from 5.45 pm to 8.30 pm. 

The first speaker this evening will be the distinguished mountaineer, explorer & author Sri Harish Kapadia.( http://www.harishkapadia.com/) Sri Kapadia will be speaking on " Exploration of all the major valleys of Arunachal Pradesh in the last 15 years". 



" Arunachal Forever"- The talk covers its turbulent history of the war with China, McMahon Line saga, people and ancient pilgrim trails, historical explorations, high unclimbed peaks , trails to Burma via Chaukan Pass and Pangsu pass, flying  the Burma Hump and Lake of No Return, Second World War in Burma and Arunachal Pradesh,  and the Journey and exploration of the Brahmaputra river. Talk is based  on nine trips to inner Arunachal Pradesh  by the Speaker. What a talk to begin the lecture series with! 

The second speaker this evening will be Sri Divyesh Muni. Divyesh Muni is a Chartered Accountant by profession. But instead of getting lost in numbers, he would rather prefer to loose himself in the deep ravines of the Himalayas. One month every year, Divyesh takes time off from his busy schedule and heads off to the Himalayas for a dose of trekking and mountain climbing. He has trekked extensively in Garhwal, Kumaon and Ladakh, even going further up north to the Siachen Glacier. Till date, Divyesh has participated in 19 Himalayan expeditions and climbed 25 peaks, several of them more than 20,000 feet above sea level. Not surprisingly, he is a winner of several awards, such as Best Mountaineering Expedition of the year 2005 and the Best Mountaineer of the Year 2009-10.
(Divyesh intro text credit: http://chandragupta-acharya.blogspot.in/2011/05/trekking-himalayas.html)

Sri Muni will be sharing his experience of his "First Ascent of Chamsen (7017m) - an exploratory climb in the Eastern Karakoram.

The third and final speaker of the 1st Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture will be Sri Rajesh Gadgil. Wanderings on the Unbroken Trails". 




His presentation would include some of histravels in the Himalaya. He would be covering his expeditions to Zanskar, Garhwal, Kumaon, Spiti, Ladakh and the Eastern Karakoram. He will also briefly share his introduction to new climbing techniques, trends / styles in the Alps and Canada.
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Unknown said…
My compliments for the lecture.
Very interesting.
Alberto Peruffo - Italy
January 16, 2014 at 9:04 PM
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