News & Events

  • On 24th June 2023 at 12:45 pm, a team of SCTA, comprising of Rajsekhar Maity, Pradip Bar, Phurba Sherpa, Lopsang Sherpa, Dawa Sherpa and Bire Sherpa, reached the summit of Kulu Makalu (6350m), thereby achieving the First Indian Ascent of the peak.
  • Another team from SCTA comprising of Subhajit Banerjee and Dawa Sherpa, reached the summit of Rubal Kang at 9:30 am on 23rd June, 2023.
  • South Calcutta Trekkers Association is going to organize its 37th BASIC ROCK CLIMBING course at Susunia Hills from 17 Nov to 20 Nov 2023.
  • South Calcutta Trekkers Association is going to organise 35th Adventure & Nature Study Camp from 24 to 28 December 2023 at Khairabera, Purulia.

What We Do

Adventure & Nature Study Camping

Camping in the wilderness is an excellent medium for interaction between man and nature. Adventure in natural... >   Read More

Expedition

SCTA has successfully completed many expeditions since it's inception... >   Read More

Rock Climbing

South Calcutta Trekkers Association has been organizing the Basic Rock Climbing Course every year since 1985... >   Read More

Trekking

The members of SCTA have participated in many trekking in the highlands of Himalayas... >   Read More

about us

Many years ago, George Mallory, one of the pioneers of modern-day mountaineering, was asked that what inspired him to keep returning to the Himalayas. Mallory gave a simple answer. He said, "Because it's there".

South Calcutta Trekkers Association, a tiny initiative of a group of friends, started walking on the same terrain roughly from the year 1983. Today, when we look back at those footprints left on the face of time, Mallory's words and the question that he was asked become very important for us. In all our modest activities of climbing peaks, trekking in the mountains, camping in the jungles, we have always felt an irresistible urge to come back. We have felt it almost as a compulsion, as an intoxicant, as the point of fulfillment of our lives. And in all these years, many more have joined us. Young minds with fresh enthusiasm have got involved in this endless voyage, in this carnival of joy, sorrow and unrestrained vigor.

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