Indian Mountaineering Foundation

India

Sikkim tourism bodies oppose IMF’s plan to become the single contact for mountaineering permits.

The Indian Mountaineering Foundation‘s (IMF) intention to take sole authority over the approval, regulation, and coordination of all mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayan State has been strongly opposed by Sikkim’s tourism and mountaineering players. The tourism stakeholders expressed their grave concerns about the IMF’s written request to the Sikkim government that all mountaineering expeditions to scale Sikkim’s peaks be directed…