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generated interest in mountaineering in India which led to the establishment of Indian mountaineering Foundation. IMF was formed in 1957 as the Sponsoring Committee of the Cho Oyu Expedition. The foundation was registered on 3 November 1961 and the new building was inaugurated by
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The IMF Mountain Film Festival is a mountain film festival organized by Indian Mountaineering Foundation, India. This competitive event showcases adventure films shot in the Himalayas. The film festival takes place at the campus of Indian Mountaineering Foundation in
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is an apex national body which organize and support, mountaineering and rock climbing expeditions at high altitudes in the
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List of National Sports award recipients in Mountaineering, showing the year, award, and gender
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The festival is directed by Maninder Kohli, son of the legendary Himalayan mountaineer, Capt.
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who was a member of India's first expedition to the summit of Everest in 1965. Capt.
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1983 stamp dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation
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was the President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation from 1989 to 1993.
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Joint Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt of India
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Climbing walls at the Indian Mountaineering Foundation center in
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Climbing walls at the Indian Mountaineering Foundation center in
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Shri Sukhinder S Sandhu, IDAS (Retd), Shri M R Vijayaraghavan
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Apex, the newsletter of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation
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Sponsoring Committee for Mountaineering Expeditions
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Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Govt of India
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Mountaineering
India
Delhi
Board of directors
www.indmount.org/IMF/welcome
India
Himalayas
Indian Himalayas
Mount Everest
Mount Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary
Tenzing Norgay
Indira Gandhi
Mumbai
New Delhi
Mohan Singh Kohli
Mohan Kohli
Climbing walls at the Indian Mountaineering Foundation center in New Delhi
New Delhi
Climbing walls at the Indian Mountaineering Foundation center in New Delhi
New Delhi
1983 stamp dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation
H. P. S. Ahluwalia
Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna
C. Balakrishanan
Avtar Singh Cheema
Nawang Gombu
Sonam Gyatso
Ang Kami

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