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The 3rd Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Oration- A brief report

The 3rd Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture was held in Rotary Sadan, Kolkata on 19th December, 2015. Those of you who attended the programme may have noticed that we had already started to call this event an 'oration' and not a 'lecture'. Both 'lecture' and 'oration' being synonymous, some of us preferred the latter better. Here is hoping we will stick to 'oration' for the future events and not give in to further caprice. We were delighted and honoured to have the Himalayan Club (https://www.himalayanclub.org/) as our associates for this evening. Surely Sujal Mukherjee's spirit of the outdoors united us and it was a lovely resonance in the end. We sincerely hope that this association would continue in the years to come. We were also happy to have Dream Wanderlust (http://www.dreamwanderlust.com/) as our Web Media Partner for the event. It was a new experience for us, and I must say that all of us who get together to organize this event we...

A Little History of Some Big Peaks: the 3rd Sujal Memorial Lecture

It gives us immense pleasure to announce that the 3rd Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture will be held in Kolkata on 19th December, 2015. We are pleased to be able to continue our effort on bringing in an academic environment to the widely popular field of Himalayan mountaineering and trekking in Kolkata, West Bengal. We want to encourage our fellow mountain travelers to approach the high Himalaya not only with courage, but also with knowledge and humility.The Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture series is therefore an instrument through which we want to achieve this goal. Dr. George W Rodway during one of his expeditions of Mt. Everest We are indeed honored to have Dr. George W Rodway as our guest speaker for the 3rd Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture. The title of his talk is : " A Little History of Some Big Peaks: The Saga of Medical Science associated with the Struggle for the Heights " George W. Rodway, PhD, b. 3 March 1959, represents a combination of scientifi...