There is a need to promote the Himalayan range in India as a mountaineering destination as it is being done by Nepal, said Brigadier (retired) Ashok Abbey, who served as the former president of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) on Tuesday in Chennai.
Releasing the book, Mountains of our destiny, The Himalayas - an expedition to the Indian range, brought out by the special publications division of The Hindu, he said the book had come at the right time when the adventure tour operators in India were looking for maximum number of Indians and foreigners to carry out expeditions in the Indian Himalayas post COVID-19.
The book was released in the presence of N. Ravi, Chairman, Kasturi and Sons Ltd., and Malini Parthasarathy, Chairperson, THG Publishing Pvt. Ltd., at a function organised at the office of The Hindu.
