Mountaineering in India
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A mountaineer on the southern crest of Changabang in Uttarakhand | |
| Country | India |
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| Governing body | Indian Mountaineering Foundation |
| National team | - |
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.
Mountaineering institutes in India
India has several premier mountaineering institutes, such as:
- Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
- Nehru Institute of Mountaineering<http://www.nimindia.net/>
- Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering
- Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering<http://www.jawaharinstitutepahalgam.com/>
- National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports<>
- Atal Behari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports
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
- Satyabrata Dam<http://satyabratadam.com/>
- Sandeep Arya
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