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

• 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.

Important Takeaways

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.