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Mountaineering in India

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India

Mountaineering in India

Governing body
  
Indian Mountaineering Foundation

Mountaineering is quite popular in India, since the entire northern and north-eastern borders are the Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world. The apex body in India is the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, which is affiliated to the International Federation of Sport Climbing.

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Mountaineering institutes in India

India has several premier mountaineering institutes, such as:

  • Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling
  • Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi
  • Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering, Gulmarg
  • Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports. Pahalgam
  • National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports
  • Atal Behari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali

    • Indian mountaineers

  • Krushnaa Patil
  • Asim Mukhopadhyay
  • Mohan Singh Kohli
  • Narendra Dhar Jayal
  • Mandip Singh Soin
  • Gurdial Singh
  • Colonel Narendra Kumar
  • Sudipta Sengupta
  • Bachendri Pal
  • Nirupama Pandey
  • Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru
  • Malavath Purna
  • Satyabrata Dam
  • Sandeep Arya
  • Chandra Prakash Vohra
  • Sonam Gyatso

    • References

    Mountaineering in India Wikipedia
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