The Last of the First. Biswadeb Biswas passes away

Dream Wanderlust | Sept 15 , 2019

The last surviving member from the epochal 1960 Nanda Ghunti Expedition, Shri Biswadeb Biswas, passed away on 14 September 2019.
He was 83, and he leaves behind his grieving wife, daughter, son, their families and generations of friends and hero-worshiping fans.

This successful landmark 1960 expedition was the first civilian Himalayan Mountaineering Expedition in India. He was a founder member of Parbat Abhijatri Sangha that had organised this path-breaking feat.

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One of the first batch of trainees at the newly opened Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling he learned the ropes from the legendary Tenzing Norgay who was then the Chief of field training at the institute. He went on to become a key member and moving spirit of many more climbs, the last in 1987 to the Lang Tang Himalayan in Nepal.

An author of the some extremely popular books, documenting his adventures, he was also the recipient of the Tenzing Norgay Award conferred by the Govt. of West Bengal.

Dream Wanderlust salutes this last pioneer and extends deepest sympathies to his family and friends.