Mountaineering in India
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 UIAA.
India has several premier mountaineering institutes. The four National Institutes are:
- Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling
- Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi
- Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports, Pahalgam
- National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports, Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh
- Sonam Gyatso Mountaineering Institute, Gangtok
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali
- Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering, Gulmarg
- Swami Vivekanand Institute of Mountaineering, Mount Abu
- Guardian Giripremi Institute of Mountaineering, Pune, Maharashtra
- Giripremi, Pune
Indian mountaineers
- Umesh Zirpe
- Ashish Mane
- Krushnaa Patil
- Asim Mukhopadhyay
- Mohan Singh Kohli
- Narendra Dhar Jayal
- Mandip Singh Soin
- Gurdial Singh
- Dawa Thondup
- Narendra Kumar
- Sudipta Sengupta
- Bachendri Pal
- Kuntal Joisher
- Nirupama Pandey
- Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru
- Malavath Purna
- Chandra Prakash Vohra
- Sonam Gyatso
- Mohan Singh Gunjyal
- Santosh Yadav
- Colonel Ajay Kothiyal
- Colonel Saurabh Singh Shekhawat
- Lt. Colonel Ranveer Jamwal
- Malli Mastan Babu
- Bhushan Harshe
- Gurjot S. Kaler