Indian Mountaineering Foundation
A commemorative postage stamp on the 25th Anniversary of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF), apex national body for mountaineering and allied sports in India :
Issued by India
Issued on Aug 27, 1983
Type : Stamp, Postal Used
Colour : Multi colour
Denomination : 200 Paise
About :
- Though instituted in 1957 in the form of a Sponsoring Committee for the Cho Oyu Expedition, the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) dates its birth on May 15, 1958 – the day on which the expedition gained its objective and the Indian National Flag flew over the 8,155-metre-high summit of Cho Oyu.
- This spectacular success encouraged the committee to sponsor more expeditions, including the first Indian Everest Expedition, in 1960. On January 15, 1961 a permanent organisation was set up taking its present nomenclature with its headquarters at New Delhi. It was registered on November 3, 1961.
- The main objectives of the Foundation are to organise, support and provide a base for mountaineering expeditions, skiing, rock-climbing, trekking at high altitudes and to promote, encourage, support and execute schemes for all other kinds of adventures.
- Since its inception, the Foundation has organised and sponsored 32 expeditions, supported financially as well as technically some 500 Indian expeditions. It has been giving scholarships for training in mountaineering, holding special training camps for selected mountaineers, arranging mountaineering equipment and maintaining stores for Indian expeditions, extending financial help to encourage treks and adventure at high altitudes, assisting in maintenance and improvement of environment and wildlife aspects of the Himalayas.
- The IMF registers peaks for climbs for foreign expeditions, helps them to get governmental clearances and finds liaison officers for them. It arranges weather broadcasts where required and liaises with the Air Force for helicopter rescue work and for land rescue or search through appropriate agencies.
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