Harshwanti Bisht appointed as first women President of Indian Mountaineering Foundation

Noted mountaineer Harshwanti Bisht has been elected as the first woman president of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF).
The 62-year-old Bisht won 60 out of a total of 107 votes to get elected to the coveted post on November 20.
In 1981, Bisht scaled the Nanda Devi peak for which she was honored with the Arjuna award.
The IMF was founded in the year 1958.
It is an apex national body to organize and support, mountaineering and rock climbing expeditions at high altitudes in the Himalayas.