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Trek the Himalayas : '''Trekking in the Himalayas was founded by Captain M.S. Kohli who has been climbing many Himalayan Peaks. It was his feeling that not many people in the world can climb Himalayan peaks but many can go to the basecamps of the mountains.'''

Captain Kohli is the first man in the world to conceive and personally promote worldwide the brand new segment of Trekking in the Himalayas in 1968 by visiting over 50 countries, appearing on world’s most popular T.V. Shows. In 1989, in the wake of large scale degradation of the Himalayas due to unprecedented rush of visitors, he established the Himalayan Environment Trust with Sir Edmund Hillary, Maurice Herzog, Sir Chris Bonington, Reinhold Messner and Junko Tabei as Founders and himself as Chairman. This timely initiative saved the Himalayas from the brink of disaster.

About Captain M.S. Kohli Mohan Kohli was born on 11 December, 1931 at Haripur Hazara situated on the banks of mighty Indus and junction of Himalayas and Karakorams in the turbulent northwest Frontier Province where one lives on the brink of eternity. His township was founded by none other than world’s greatest known General Hari Singh Nalwa, the only conqueror of NWFP and Afghanistan. For 16 years Mohan Kohli stood tall in front of the Haripur mountains on tops of which his ancestors, who had served with Nalwa, had been executed by the Afghan invaders. In 1947, during the Partition of India, he survived several close encounters with death including the massacre of over 5000 refugees.

Staggering into Delhi in tattered clothes, but fearless and brimming with the Nalwa spirit, he led daring climbs to Nanda Kot, Annapurna III and several other Himalayan giants. He is best known as leader of India’s first successful epoch-making expedition to Everest in 1965 which had electrified and rejuvenated a whole generation, opening floodgates of adventure in India. Immediately thereafter, at the height of the Cold War, he led seven death-defying India-USA expeditions to Nanda Devi and Nanda Kot - world’s greatest espionage cum mountaineering venture - to peek behind the Yellow Curtain. This James Bondian story will soon become the plot of a forthcoming Hollywood movie.