In 2007, an Expedition organized by the Kolkata section of the Himalayan Club claimed to have climbed Neelkanth (Nilkanth 6596m) in Garwal Himalaya. Some indepentdent montaineers had raised doubts about their reaching the true summit of Neelkanth as they had failed to produce convincing summits shots.
Kudos to the Managing Committe of the Himalayan Club (www.himalayanclub.org) for their bold decision and fairness in judgement! It is re assuring indeed! For some independent mountaineers in India has serious doubts about Himalayan Club Kolkata's ascent on Kamet and Tinchinkhang as well!
Recently the Mangaing Committe had this to say:
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1. After studying all the material made available to it in the Ombudsman's Report, the independent opinions of experienced and respected mountaineers consulted by the President, as well as all the arguments made in response to the Ombudsman's Report by the Expedition Leader and other members of Kolkata Section, the MC would like to record its agreement with the conclusion of the Ombudsman's Report, which is that the 2007 Himalayan Club expedition to Nilkanth, operating in challenging topography, did not reach the highest point on the mountain. Therefore HC will not record this as an ascent of Nilkanth. .."
one can find more details on this extra ordinary report by Sri Jagdish Nanavati and the MC of Himalayan Club in the follwoing links:
http://himalayanclub.org/Nilkanth/1.%20Nilkanth_Expedition_2007-REPORT.pdf
I am tempted to quote the Miners ten commandents in this regard. No offence meant to anyone. Some independent mountaineers do believe in good humour and good ethics in mountaineering!
The miners ten commandments from Park City Ridge, Utah, USA is one of there most popular work:
Miners Ten Comandments
Thou shalt have no other claim but one.
Thou shalt not take unto thyself any false claims, nor shalt thou jump one.
Thou shalt not go prospecting again before thy claim gives out nor shalt thou take thy hard-earned dust to the gaming tables in vain for the more thou shalt put down, the less thou will take up.
Thou shalt dig or pick only six days for on the seventh thou shalt washeth thy dirty clothes and darneth thy socks and choppeth the whole weeks wood.
Thou shalt not think more of the gold than thy father's blessings or thy mother's love.
Thou shalt not kill thy body by working in the rain nor by getting stewed or three sheets to the wind from drinking down whiskey punches, rum toddies or brandy slings.
Thou shalt not grow discouraged nor go home before thou strikes it rich lest in going home thou will work for fifty cents a day while thou might strike lead and make fifty dollars a day by staying.
Thou shalt not steal a pick or shovel nor take thy neighbor's tools nor borrow those he cannot spare and return them broken nor remove his stakes to enlarge thy own claim.
Thou shalt not tell false tales about thy diggings in the hills nor salt thy claim to deceive thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife nor trifle with the affections of his daughter but if thou truly love and covet each other, thou shalt pop the question like a man.
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