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| category = [[Climbing]], [[mountaineering]]<br />
| website = {{URL|https://www.himalayanclub.org/the-himalayan-journal|himalayanclub.org/journal}}<br />
| publisher = [[Himalayan Club]]<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| founded = 1929<br />
| frequency = Annual<br />
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|title=The Himalayan Journal|editor=Nandini Purandare|logo=}}<br />
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The '''''Himalayan Journal''''' is the annual [[magazine]] of the [[Himalayan Club]] in India.<br />
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==History and profile==<br />
The magazine was established in 1929. The first [[editor-in-chief]] was the English geographer [[Kenneth Mason (geographer)|Kenneth Mason]]. He was a surveyor operating from [[Shimla]]. Mason later continued editing from England. Subsequent editors were C.W.F. Noyce, H.W. Tobin, and [[Trevor Braham]]. In 1960, K. Biswas took over as the first Indian editor. From 1969 to 1979 and from 1987 to 1989 Soli S. Mehta was editor. [[Harish Kapadia]] was editor from 1980 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 2010.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lorna Siggins|title=Himalayan climber to give lecture|work=The Irish Times|date=24 November 2011|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/himalayan-climber-to-give-lecture-1.15670|accessdate=24 March 2015}}<br>- Jurgalski, Eberhard (2008). [http://www.8000ers.com/cms/en/history-of-chronicles-mainmenu-183.html "History of chronicles"], ''8000ers.com''. Retrieved 24 March 2015.<br>- [http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198071501.do The Himalayan Journal, Volume 66], Himalayan Club, OUP India. [[Oxford University Press]] (2011). Retrieved 24 March 2015.</ref> Since 2014, Nandini Purandare has been the editor, the first woman to hold this post.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=The Himalayan Journal |url=https://www.himalayanclub.org/publications/the-himalayan-journal/ |access-date=5 November 2023 |website=[[Himalayan Club]]}}</ref><br />
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== Editors ==<br />
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the magazine:<br />
* Kenneth Mason (1929–1940)<br />
* C.W.F. Noyce (1946)<br />
* H.W. Tobin (1947–1957)<br />
* Trevor H. Braham (1958–1959)<br />
* Dr. K. Biswas (1960–1968)<br />
* Soli S. Mehta (1969–1979 and 1987–1989)<br />
* Harish Kapadia (1980–1986, 1990–2014)<br />
* Nandini Purandare (2014-present)<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Official website|https://www.himalayanclub.org/the-himalayan-journal/about-the-journal/}}<br />
* [http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/hi/index.htm Himalayan Index (The Alpine Club)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140622192212/http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/hi/index.htm |date=2014-06-22 }}<br />
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