Asia, India, Kumaon, Peaks Southwest of Tirsuli

Publication Year: 1969.

Peaks Southwest of Tirsuli. Two unnamed peaks (20,300 and 19,900 feet) southwest of Tirsuli were scaled on May 29 and 31 respectively by a team sponsored by Bombay University.2 They attempted another unnamed peak of 22,940 feet but failed to climb it. They started trekking from Tejam on May 12. The professors and students were Professors A. R. Chandekar, R. G. Desai and M. M. Mogue, Dr. C. S. Kambli, H. B. Kapadia, B. B. Merchant, C. S. Borde and V. M. Moghpara.

KAMAL K. Guha, Himalayan Club

2. It is hard to know what peaks these are since from Tirsuli the main ridge runs at a very high elevation to Hardeol and the Editor is at a loss to know what 20,000-foot peaks lie there.