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H. P. S. Ahluwalia S. Ahluwalia H. PP.. S. Ahluwalia Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia is an Indian mountaineer. He climbed the Mount EvereEverestst on 29 May 1965 along with his friends Rawat and Phu Dorji. In the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965, he was injured and confined to a wheelchair wheelchair .. He set up Indian Spinal Injury Society in 1993. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan award in 2002. Major Ahluwalia is also the chairman of the Rehabilitation CounCouncilcil of India and is a recipient of several awards like Padma SriSri,,ArjunaArjuna award, the National Award for the best work donedone in the field of Disability, the Order of the Khalsa (Nissan A Khalsa). He has written several books like Higher than Everest ,, Beyond the Himalayas,, Everest is within you.. He won the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award for lifetime achievement on August 29, 2009 Harish Kapadia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation ,, searchsearch Harish Kapadia 11 July 1945 (age 67) Born Mumbai, India Spouse(s) Geeta Kapadia Sonam Kapadia (son) Children (Deceased) Lt. Nawang Kapadia (son) Harish Kapadia (Born 11 July 1945) is a distinguished Himalayan Mountaineer Mountaineer fromfrom IndiaIndia.. He has been awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal GeoGeographicgraphic SocietySociety,, UK and the Life Time Achievement Award for Adventure by the President of India and the King Albert Mountain Award presented by The King Albert I Memorial FoundFoundation.ation. He has written numerous books and articles on the Indian HimalayaHimalaya.. He began climbing and trekking in the range around BBombay,ombay, the Western GhatsGhats.. His first visit to the Himalaya was almost 40 years ago[[when?]]. His main contribution to Himalayan climbing has been to explore unknown areas and, in number of cases, to open up climbing possibilities. Some of his major ascents have been of Devtoli (6788 m), Bandarpunch West (6102 m), Parilungbi (6166 m), in 1995, Lungser Kangri (6666 m) the highest peak of of RupshuRupshu inin LadakhLadakh.. He led five international joint expeditions, four with the BritiBritishsh and two with the French, to high peaks, such asas Rimo I (7385 m), Chong Kumdan Kangri I (7071 m), SudSudarshanarshan Parbat, and the Panch ChuliChuli and Rangrik Rang groups. Earlier, in 1974 he fell in a crevasse at 6200 m, ddeepeep inside the formidable Nanda Devi Sanctuary. He was carried by his companions for 13 days to the base camp where a helicopter helicopter rescued him. He was operated for a dislocated hip-jhip-jointoint and had to spend two years walwalkingking on crutches. But that did not keep him out for too lonlongg and he has climbed for three decades after the injury. Kapadia has a degree in Commerce, Law and Management from Bombay University and he is a cloth merchant by profession. He has published twelve books. His Trek The Sahyadris has now become a standard reference for all trekkers in the Western GhatsGhats.. His other books, Exploring the Hidden Himalaya (with Soli Mehta) and High Himalaya Unknown Valleys and Meeting The Mountains cover his various trips to the Himalaya, while Spiti Adventures in the Trans- Himalaya, covers climbing and trekking in that region. He hhasas been the editor of the Himalayan Journal for the past 28 years, bringing the journal to inteinternationalrnational standards and continuing it as a major authentic reference on the range. Kapadia has been elected an Honorary Member of the (British) Alpine ClubClub.. He was a Vice President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (19971997–1999).–1999). He was awarded the IMF Gold Medal by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation in 1993. In 2003, the Queen approved the award of the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographic Society to him. He has been invited to many countries to lecture on his Himalayan exploitsexploits,, and is a member of several organisations. He is married, and lives in Bombay. His son Lt.Lt. Nawang Nawang KapadiaKapadia,, who was commissioned on September 2, 2000 in the Fourth Battalion the Third Gorkha Rifles, died while fighting Pakistan based terrorists in the jungles of Rajwar in Kupwara district of of Srinagar Srinagar onon 11 November 2000. Since then Harish KapKapadiaadia has taken to lecturing about this conflict, particularly in the Siachen Glacier. He has been discussing a proposal for a peace park for Siachen and cleaning up the environmental damage there. Harish Kapadia has donated a substantial number of photographs and maps to the American American CollectionCollection.Alpine Club. This and isto in the addition Swiss Nationalto the Lt. MuseumMuseum, Nawang, Kapadiawhich are LibLibrary settingrary already up the Lt.in existenceNawang Kapadiaat the Himalayan ClubClub.. His book, "Meeting The Mountains" is also seen whilwhilee standing in line at Disney's Animal Kingdom for Expedition Everest. While passing through the line you pass through many glass cases displaying the history of mountains and at ononee point, you come across something that is supposed to look like an office and his book can be seen on the top bookshelf of this section. Mohan Singh Kohli From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from M.S. KohliKohli)) Jump to: navigation,, searchsearch This article includes a list of references, related reading or or externalexternal links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (February 2013) Captain Manmohan Singh Kohli (b. December 11, 1931 at Haripur Haripur )) is an internationally renowned Indian mountaineer mountaineer .. An officer in the Indian Navy who joined the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, he led the 1965 Indian expedition whiwhichch put nine menmen on the summit of of EverestEverest, a, a world record which lasted for 17 years. He may be mmostost famous though for revealing 1960s' Himalayan expeditions for the CIA that placed equipment to monitor nuclear sites in CChina.hina. Mohan Kohli was President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation from 1989 to 1993. In 1989, he co-founded the Himalayan Environment Trust. He has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan and Arjuna AwardAward.. Bachendri Pal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation ,,searchsearch This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (December 2011) This articarticlele includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline ccitationsitations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2011) Bachendri Pal is an Indian mountaineer, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest. Conten ts Early life Bachendri Pal belonged to a family of very moderate means. She was born on 24 May 1954 in a village named Nakuri in Uttarakashi District of Garhwal. In 1982, Hari.K.Govind hill at NIM, she climbed Gangotri(21,900 ft) and Rudugaria (19,091 ft). In that time, she got employment as an instructor at the National Adventure Foundation(NAF), which had set up an adventure school for training women to learn mountaineering. Ascent In 1984, India had scheduscheduledled its fourth expedition, christened “Everest ‘84’”,‘84’”, to the MounttMoun Everest. Bachendri was selected as one of the membersmembers of the elite group of six Indian women and eleven men who were privileged to attempt an ascent to the Mount Everest, Sagarmatha in thethe Nepali Nepali languagelanguage[Nepalese][Nepalese] The news filled them witwithh a sense of eecscstasytasy and excitement. The team was flown to Kathmandu, the ccapitalapital of Nepal iinn March 1984; anandd from there the tteameam moved onwards. Recalling her first glimpse of the Mount Everest, Bachendri once reminisced: “We the hill people have always worshipped the mountainsmountains … my overpowering eemotionmotion at this awe-inspiring spectacle was, therefore, devotional.” The team commenced its ascent in May, 1984. On the night of 15–16 May 1984, Bachendri and her tent mate were sleeping in one of the tents at Camp III at an altitude of about 24,000 feet. At around 00:30 hours (IST), at around 24,000 feet, she was jolted awake; something had hit her hard and she also heard a deafening sound; and at the same time she found herself being enveloped within a very cold mamassss of material. On 22 May 1984, some other climbers joined the team to ascent the ssummitummit of the Mount Everest. Bachendri was the only woman in this group. They continued the ascent climbing “vertical sheets of frozen ice”, cold winds sometimes blowing at the speed of about 100 km per hour, temperatures touching minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. On 23 May 1984, Bachendri reached the summit of Mount Everest, and at 1:07 PM ISTIST.. Later life She continued to be active after ascending the highest peak in the world. In 1985, she led an Indo-Nepalese Everest Expedition team comprising only women. The expedition created seven world records and set benchmarks for Indian mountaineering. Nine years later, in 1994, she led an all women team of rafters. She is also a good singer. Arunima Sinha From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation ,,searchsearch Arunima Sinha Born 1988 Nationality Indian First Female ampute e toto climb Mount Everest .. First Indian ampute e to climb Mount Known f Everest oror .. Arunima "Sonu" Sinha (born 1988) is the first female amputee
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