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Aberdonian Alexander Kellas: The greatest Himalayan mountaineer of his day


Aberdonian Alexander Kellas: The greatest Himalayan mountaineer of his day
By Ian R Mitchell
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A century ago (June 5 1921), a man died on a bleak Tibetan plateau. He was on the First, 1921, Expedition aiming to conquer Mount Everest; indeed he was the very first “martyr” to Chomolungma (to give the mountain its proper name).
That man was, at that time, recognised as the greatest Himalayan mountaineer of his day, and after his death two memorials in Tibet were raised to him and two mountains, one in Sikkim and one in Tibet, named after him. ....

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The world's most beautiful mountain?


Siniolchu overlooks the Zemu glacier and is in the shadow of Kanchenjunga
Listed among the latest publications in the weekly “Browser” strip of
The Hindu Magazine (Sunday, February 28) was the HarperCollins title
Raj and Norah.
The name Rajendra Kohli and his image on the dust jacket of the book at once lit up my memory of a mid-morning at Gangtok in May 1964. I was the junior-most staff officer, a captain with less than eight years in uniform, on active field service at Headquarters 17 Infantry Division. My makeshift office had a broad window, as though cut out on purpose to frame the Kanchenjunga summit to perfection. ....

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