MAGAN BISSA – ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

April 28th, 2010

Thanks to everyone for the help , monetary and off course the wishes & prayers for Magan Bissa’s recovery, he is out of the hospital and back to Bikaner ( 28th April,2010 ), he was discharged from the hospital on 31st March , 2010 and has been recovering at the Indian Mountaineering Foundation campus since, right now on liquid diet only ( 1500 to 1700 ml only per day). He is walking around and doing his normal functions. His miraculous recovery is thanks to his own tremendous will power, his wife Sushma Bissa’s love and care who has been with him day and night for the past 8 months nursing him back to recovery, and off course the doctors at The  Liver and Biliary Hospital, Vasant Kunj Dr. Shivender and other Doctors and nursing staff of the hospital. AND  MOST  IMPORTANT OF ALL HIS FRIENDS AND WELL WISHERS WHO HAVE GIVEN HIM UN CONDITIONAL SUPPORT THROUGHOUT…..

Rgds,

Mohit

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Magan goes through a major Surgery

January 15th, 2010

Hi All,

A quick update on a successful surgery that took place today. It was held at the Institute of Liver and Binary Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. A team of surgeons operated upon him for 5 hours and were able to block the “leakage in his intestines”. The surgery was considered successful and hopefully Magan should be on a path to recovery now.

best regards,

-Sanjay

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Hindustan Times:Mountain rescuer, now waiting to be rescued

November 19th, 2009

Someone who has spent a lifetime rescuing people is now in need of a rescue act.

Attempting to scale Mount Everest for the fourth time, Magan Bissa has paid dearly for his ambition. The mountaineer suffered an injury during the expedition to Everest in May this year and is now in a critical condition. With family resources drained by months of hospitalisation, Bissa needs financial support to survive. read more.

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Magan’s accomplishments

October 22nd, 2009

 

   

Real Personalities of Bikaner

Shri Magan Bissa
Mountaineer

So what if there is less obstruction for water pouring clouds for Rajasthan, but the sand of Bikaner has given birth to this Great Mountaineer who had made the Highest Mountain peak “The Everest” diminutive. Born on December 8, 1954 Shri Magan Bissa, son of Late Sh. Panna Lal Bissa, had done Masters in Commerce of Business Administration from Univ. of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He has worked as Officer (Adventure Programmes) inTATA Steel, Jamshedpur. He did his Basic Mountaineering course from H.M.I. Darjeeling in 1978. And in the same year finished Advanced Mountaineering course from same place. In 1979 he attended the IMF Advanced Climbing Camp held at Goumukh. He did his basic Snow-Skiing and Water Skiing course at IIS&M Gulmarg in 1983. Learned Sky-Diving in 1982, from Indian Sky Diving Federation Agra. 
 

He was appointed as Liaison Officer with Spanish, Japanese Expedition to Mt. Bathartoli, Meru Mt. Chaturangi in 1979-80. In 1981 he was one of the member Japanese Rescue cum Search team to Mt. Nandakhat to search seven missing person of Japan.
From 1979 to 1986 he remained Camp Leader, Establishment Officer and Joint Director of National Himalayan Trekking Programme. He leaded the very First Expedition from Rajasthan, named as Desert to Snow, to Mt. Gangotri II and Mt. Rudragara in 1981. In 1982 he leaded the team for Pre-Everest Expedition to Mt. Gangotri I. He participated in Indian Everest Expedition to Mt Everest, opened route to South Co1,  reached South CI thrice reached upto 28,000 ft to support summit team in1984. Leaded Mt. Deo Tibba Expedition from Rajasthan 1985. Appointed Dy. Leader of Indo-Australian Expedition to Mt. Rimo (Karakoram Range) and opened the tough technical route (max) in 1985. Participated in Indo-British Army Mt. Saser Kangri Expedition (Karakoram Range) in 1987 and climbed the mountain directly from advance base camp in single 8 Hours push with 6,000 Ft. lead. Leaded Tata’s Mt. ShriKailash Expedition in 1988. Explored as Climbing Leader and Summiter Indo-Russian Mt. NandaDevi East Expedition 1991. 

 


Presently he is President of Rajasthan Adventure Foundation and Director of National Adventure Foundation (Rajasthan & Gujrat Chapter).
  

 

Address:
Chowkhunti Railway Crossing,
Gajner Road,
Bikaner
Phone: 523050

Awards honored to Shri Magan Bissa
  • SENA Medal by the President of India 1986
  • IMF Silver Medal 1985.
  • Rajasthan Meritorious Award 1987.
  • Rajasthan State JC’s outstanding young person award 1991.
  • IMF Gold Medal 1993.
  • Youth Hostel Asso. Gold Medal 1995.
  • Maharana Pratap Sports award Rajasthan Goverenment 1998.
  • Bharat Gaurav award at National Adventure Festival- Chandigarh 2000.

 

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List of contributors

October 15th, 2009
Total contribution more than Rs 12 lacs
Sonali Bhatia, Nagesh Sethi, Snow Leopard adventure Pvt Ltd, Mr Sudeep Jain/Shantesh, Mr Yusuf, Manjula Sridhar, Outdoor /Mohit Oberai, Arun/ R Jayshree, Kamlesh Venugopal, Kersi/Minnie/Daster, Shashank Gupta/Punit, Tejvir Khurana, Jasvir S Khurana, Kavitha Kanaparthi, Dinesh Mishra Bunt [Dyno window cleaning], Manish Verma, Madan, Kuldeep, Raju, Nagaraj
MNC Bullion Chennai, Akhil Sapru, Viviek Crishna, Himraj Dang, Atamjot Kaur, Mr Akash Mohan , Sonali Khalfe, Srikrishna Kaduskar, Anita Bhargava, Sanjay Suri, Himraj Dang, Karnataka Mountaineeting Association ( KMA ), Gurpreet Singh, Pamela Singh, Abhay Narayan Sapru, Deepak Jhalani
Ali Akbar Kazmi, Depinder Kapur, Luca Benedini, Tejbir Singh, Venkataraman Sridhar, Indo Journeys Pvt.Ltd.,  Ganeve Rajkotia, Raman Gupta, Dr. Soumya Das, Vivek Sawhney Territorial Army  BN 105 ( Raj Rif ).,  Chandra Kanta, Santosh Gupta, Prakash Amati, Sonali  Khalfe, Piyush Gelani, Shine Shivdasam, Vijay & Keshav Jilani, Flam gas – Bikaner, Xanders Ginni, Radha Vijayraghvan, Brig. D.K. Khullark
Dilip Lagu, Dharmesh Desai, Chintan Gandhi, Amardev Singh, Vivek Sawhney, K Saraswati,Col Balwant Sandhu,Harish Aure, Col. Ajit Dutt, Maj. Kulwant Dhami, Pedal Yatri Cyling group-Gurgaon, Ganesh Vaidyanathan, Mr Rajeev Sharma, Urvasi, K Sarswati, Chandraprabha Aitwal, Vasumati, Vishy Kuruganti-Banglore, DV Nair Goa, Bikaner Vyapar Mandal
Ashok Bedi, Sanjeev Roy, Mohit Mittal, Ravi Ayyalasomayajula, Vikas Varma, Ganesh Kumar, Mahirwan Bhagia, Arvind Kaushik, Amitabh Tewary, Mukil Sambandhamoorthy, Venkatesh Mahadevan, Anupam Thakur, Praphul Misra, Rajesh and Nirupama, Saurabh Soni
Sandeep Acharya Charity show, Bikaner.
Tata steel adventure foundation, Ms. Bachendri Pal, Mr. Adi Godrej, Phirojsha Godrej Foundation, Col. Vishal Thapa, Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.

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Pictures – before and after injury

October 14th, 2009

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coverage in Dainik Jagran – इस चमक-दमक में इनकी सुध कौन ले

October 14th, 2009


नई दिल्ली [उपेंद्र स्वामी]। कई जिंदगियां और महत्वाकांक्षाएं उनकी कर्जदार हैं लेकिन आज वह अपनी जिंदगी बचाने के लिए किसी कर्ज का मुंह ताक रहे हैं। ऐसा इसलिए कि भारत में हम उपलब्धियों की पूजा करते हैं लेकिन प्रतिभाओं की कद्र नहीं करते। मगन बिस्सा की गिनती देश के सबसे कुशल पर्वतारोहियों में होती है, लेकिन आज वह दिल्ली के एक गुमनाम से अस्पताल में जिंदगी के लिए जद्दोजहद कर रहे हैं, केवल पर्वतारोहण के लिए अपने जुनून की वजह से। मदद के अभाव में महंगा इलाज उनके दम पर भारी पड़ रहा है। read more.

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Climbing accident at Everest Camp III

October 13th, 2009

Our friend MAGAN BISSA, a leading mountaineer of the country and a veteran of 4 Everest Expeditions and summiter of mountains such as Nanda Devi , Saser Kangri and many more mountains, was looking forward to making his fourth attempt at summitting Mount Everest His first was in 1984 with the Sucessful IMF expedition which put the first Indian women Bachendri Pal on top of Everest.

He was a member of the team from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, India. Unfortunately on 07 May 2009, at camp 3 he fell ill and his serious condition needed immediate, invasive medical attention. He was promptly evacuated from the base camp to Kathmandu. An immediate surgery followed that led to the removal of 80% of his intestine! Sheer grit and determination helped him recover and return home.

However, post operative complications drove him to seek further medical help and is now admitted in the Institute of Liver and Binary Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, for the past 30 days. He has been in Intensive care unit and the treatment is being carried out under the guidance of the best doctors in the country.  The treatment at the hospital may take anytime from 2 weeks to 3 months depending upon the healing process. His situation is VERY CRITICAL.

Apart from the slow healing, the mounting cost of hospitalisation and medication – nearly Rs.25,000 per day- has taken its toll on his family. The IMF has lent its support by granting him Rs. 1.5 lacs. It is very evident that with no support from other similar organisations it would be extremely difficult to carry on with this medical  treatment. Mrs. Bissa and her family have been braving these hurdles with pride and dignity.
Here is our chance to reach out in the true spirit of mountaineering, seeking limits of the unknown and with a deep sense of respect for what nature has in store, to help a fellow man be healthy and live to tell tales of camaraderie that allows one to achieve the impossible.
We request all whom we know from within the climbing community and elsewhere, to kindly make a contribution towards his medical expenses and help our friend with an indomitable spirit to get back on his feet.
This little act of kindness is surely going to touch the lives of an entire family who have contributed a lot towards nurturing a young generation of climbers.
Please do send the details of the transfer to this email ID soo that we can track the payment details.
warm regards,
RK Sharma [09414139950]  / Mohit Oberoi [09810043029]

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Recent medical records

October 13th, 2009

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