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Tiger Badge
The Tiger Badge was awarded to experienced climbing porters by the Himalayan Club so that "the better Sherpas should be in some way distinguished and rewarded by higher rates of pay". Each bronze badge displays a Tiger’s head in relief with a peak in the background, the legend around the edge reads "Himalayan Club", on the reverse the porter's name and Himalayan Club Number are engraved. History During the mid-1930s the Himalayan Club set about compiling a register of porters based in Darjeeling, those on the register were issued with a 'chit book' which would be used to record their mountaineering resume so that subsequent expeditions had a reliable record of the experience of those they might employ. The Himalayan Club published a list of those on the register with their date of birth and a brief summary of high-altitude experience, along with their number on the register (the 'Himalayan Club Number' which was assigned to each because so many had similar names). Expedition repor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Himalayan Club
The Himalayan Club is an organization founded in India in 1928 along the lines of the Alpine Club (UK), Alpine Club. The stated mission of the organization was "to encourage and assist Himalayan travel and exploration, and to extend knowledge of the Himalaya and adjoining mountain ranges through science, art, literature and sport." The Club publishes a journal, the Himalayan Journal and has a library. Nandini Purandare from Mumbai is the current president of The Himalayan Club. History The idea to start such an organization was proposed in 1866 by Mr. F. Drew and Mr. W. H. Johnson to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Douglas Freshfield, active member of the Royal Geographical Society, Royal Geographic Society wrote in the Alpine Journal in 1884, "The formation at Calcutta or Simla," he said, "of (a) Himalayan Club, prepared to publish Narratives of Science and Adventure' concerning the mountains, would be the most serviceable means to this end." The organization was finally establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Mason (geographer)
Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC (10 September 1887 – 2 June 1976) was a British soldier and explorer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Himalayas was rewarded in 1927 with a Royal Geographical Society Founder's Medal, the citation reading ''for his connection between the surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and his leadership of the Shaksgam Expedition''. Personal life Kenneth Mason was born at Sutton, Surrey, the son of Ellen Martin (née Turner) and Stanley Engledue Mason, a timber broker. He was educated first at Homefield Preparatory School, where he was savagely beaten, but regarded such treatment with equanimity, offering the opinion that "If every silly ass that grows a beard and sits down in the London roads to demonstrate had been well and truly beaten when young, he too might have learned sense!". Mason went on to Cheltenham College, where he excelled in Mathematics and prepared for exams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Himalayan Journal
The ''Himalayan Journal'' is the annual magazine of the Himalayan Club in India. History and profile The magazine was established in 1929. The first editor-in-chief was the English geographer Kenneth Mason. He was a surveyor operating from Shimla Shimla, also known as Simla ( the official name until 1972), is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of British India. After independence, the city .... Mason later continued editing from England. Subsequent editors were C.W.F. Noyce, H.W. Tobin, and Trevor Braham. In 1960, K. Biswas took over as the first Indian editor. From 1969 to 1979 and from 1987 to 1989 Soli S. Mehta was editor. Harish Kapadia was editor from 1980 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 2010. Since 2014, Nandini Purandare has been the editor, the first woman to hold this post. Editors The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the magazine: * Kenneth Mason (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Indian Everest Expedition
The 1965 Indian Everest Expedition reached the summit of Mount Everest on 20 May 1965. It was the first successful scaling of the mountain by an Indian climbing expedition. After the first conquest of Mount Everest in 1953 by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Indian military forces made several attempts to conquer the summit. The first expedition by the Indian Army, which was led by Brigadier Gyan Singh in 1960, failed. Climbers Colonel Narendra Kumar, Sonam Gyatso, and Sherpa Nawang Gombu reached , just from the summit, but had to turn back due to extremely bad weather. The second expedition by the Indian Army, led by Major John Diaz in 1962, also failed. Captain Mohan Singh Kohli, Sonam Gyatso, and Hari Dang got to almost below the summit at , but also had to give up due to bad weather. Mohan Singh Kohli was a member of both these expeditions. Preparation In 1965, the third Indian expedition, which was led by Mohan Singh Kohli and his deput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
