Ace mountaineer from Uttarakhand becomes first woman president of Indian Mountaineering Foundation

Category : Miscellaneous Published on: November 29 2021

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Harshwanti Bisht, a well-known mountaineer from Uttarakhand, has been elected chairperson of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF), the country's largest mountaineering institute.
Harshwanti is the first woman to be elected president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which was founded sixty-three years ago. She received 60 votes out of 107 casts.
Bisht, who completed a mountaineering course at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in Uttarkashi in 1975, was awarded the Arjuna award for scaling the Nanda Devi peak in 1981.
She was also a member of an Everest expedition crew in 1984.

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About IMF

IMF: Indian Mountaineering Foundation
Headquarters: Delhi, India
The Indian Mountaineering Foundation is the apex national body that organises and supports high-altitude mountaineering and rock climbing expeditions in the Himalayas. The organisation also promotes and encourages schemes for related adventure activities and environmental protection work in the Indian Himalayas.