Mountaineering in India
| Country | India |
|---|---|
| Governing body | Indian Mountaineering Foundation |
| National team(s) | - |
Rock climbing practice on artificial rock wall at the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, Delhi
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.
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 (NIMAS), Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (ABVIMAS), Manali
Indian mountaineers
- Ashish Mane
- Krushnaa Patil
- Asim Mukhopadhyay
- Mohan Singh Kohli
- Narendra Dhar Jayal
- Mandip Singh Soin
- Gurdial Singh
- Narendra Kumar
- Sudipta Sengupta
- Bachendri Pal
- Nirupama Pandey
- Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru
- Malavath Purna
- Chandra Prakash Vohra[1]
- Sonam Gyatso
- Mohan Singh Gunjyal
- Santosh Yadav
- Colonel Ajay Kothiyal
- Colonel Saurabh Singh Shekhawat
- Brigadier Krishan Kumar
- Lt. Colonel Ranveer Singh Jamwal [2]
- Satal Singh Panwar
- Soumitra Ganguli
- Yogendar Garbiyal
See also
References
- ↑ "Ecelluiet". Ecelluiet. 2015. Archived from the original on February 2, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Army officer Ranveer Jamwal scales Mt Everest for a third time". the times of india. the times of india. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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