Himalayas, streching across the northern borders of India, from west to east with its hundreds of peaks offers unlimited opportunities for mountaineering in the Himalayas.

Mountaineering as a sport is said to to have begun in the Himalayas in 1883 when W.W. Graham, an European came to Himalayas for the purpose of climbing.

The Indian Mountaineering Foundation was born in 1957 as a non profit organisation, to organise support & provide a base for mountaineering expeditions like skiing, rock climbling, trekking at high altitude & to promote, encourage, support & execute schemes of all kinds of adventre.

Today, as many as 100 mountaineering expeditions venture into the himalayas every year. Inproved road communications, reliable weather forecasting & well - organised search & research facilities make Himalayas most challenging as well as among the safest mountains in the world.