Canning Mountaineering Club

Canning Mountaineering Club (CMC) was founded in the year 1996. Since then it is working to promote adventure sports like trekking, rock climbing, mountaineering etc. among the youths of West Bengal and adjacent states. By these, we try to impart into them the qualities like leadership, team spirit and self-confidence. Starting with 12, the number of the members has grown into 55, all of whom are well-trained in different mountain related disciplines.

Throughout the year, we arrange classes on mountains and environment; starting from basic geography and geology to the recent threat of global warming and glacier melting.

The club takes part in various exhibitions in schools and colleges to motivate the youth to actively participate in our programmes and to protect the environment.

CMC also organizes some Nature Study camps at the outskirts of Kolkata to familiarize its members to the surrounding eco-system.

Since the first year, our club is organizing Rock Climbing Courses (Basic, Intermediate and Advance) in the hills of Bankura, Purulia and even Orissa. Over the past few years, the number of trainees has increased from 18 to 65. The age of the trainees varies from 12 to 35 years and they represent different parts of our state and different socio-economical background. Simultaneously, for trainees aged 4 to 12, we conduct a Nature Study camp.
This year CMC had organized a Summer Camp in the hills of Sikkim with the motto of “Save The Environment”. We also carried out three medical camps to help the victims of the cyclone “Aila” in the Sunderbans.

Apart from these, every year we organize High Altitude Trekking Programmes in different parts of the Himalayas, the last being Kharapatthar Expedition in the Gangotri region in October ’08.
In the past few years, we had organized two expeditions. The first was Mt. Chamser Kangri in Ladakh and the other was Mt. Yunam in Himachal Pradesh. Our members’ sumitted both peaks to make us proud.