Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports Manali (ABVIMAS)
was established in the natural geographic environs of Manali in the picturesque
Kullu valley, with the name “Western Himalayan Mountaineering Institute”, on
the 16th September 1961, under the dynamic leadership of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru,
the first Prime Minister of India as the Kullu valley, better known as the
valley of gods, came into limelight after his regular visits, resulting in a
big boost to adventure tourism.
Atal
Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali (ABVIMAS)
also has an up to date library, museum and lecture halls. All this is located
on this beautiful campus. Apart from this, the Directorate has various adventure
training centers all over Himachal.
Atal
Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali (ABVIMAS)
is one of the largest adventure training institutes in the world. It has been
doing yeoman’s service in the field of adventure training, especially adventure
sports like Mountaineering, Rock Climbing, Trekking, Skiing, Water Sports, Outbound
adventure and Mountain Rescue.
"The
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali
(ABVIMAS) today is the largest Adventure Sports training center in the country.
Spread over 20 acres of forested land on the banks of the river Beas, the
Directorate can boast of having a hostel that can accommodate 260 people at a
time, a dining hall that can cater to more than 200 people at once and an auditorium that has a seating capacity of 680 people.
The great
son of India, the former Prime Minister, and Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who as
a lover of nature and an adventure enthusiast has a special passion for Manali
and the Mountaineering Institute, always made it a point to visit the Institute
whenever he happened to be in Manali. He visited the Institute many times and
chaired number of conferences, seminars and poetry sessions. In the year 2008
Himachal Pradesh Government renamed the Institute as “Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali, Himachal Pradesh”.
Since its
inception, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied
Sports, Manali (ABVIMAS) has trained about 1, 60,000 youth, women & men
from India and abroad in different disciplines of adventure activities at its
Manali headquarters and the other Centre located at various places in Himachal
Pradesh.
The
Institute produced national and international level prominent mountaineers who
climbed Mount Everest and other many high peaks and participated in winter
Olympics and Asian winter sports championships. It is also proud to have
faculty of qualified and professional instructors and officers having a number of
prominent peaks, including Mount Everest, to their credit.
Scenic
beauty, sylvan surroundings, and salubrious climate are most conducive to the
training in the field of adventure activities and, therefore, the area is a paradise for adventure lovers.
Atal
Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali (ABVIMAS)
is around 2 kilometers from Mall Road Manali on Naggar Highway.
For more
details and training programs of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of
Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali (ABVIMAS) one can contact below
mentioned numbers and websites.
Telephone
numbers:
Director:
(01902) 253789,252206
Deputy
Director: (01902)250337
Superintendent:
(01902) 252342
Training
Wing: (01902) 253841
Telefax:
(01902)252137
E-mail:
dmas_manali@yahoo.com
abvimasmanali@gmail.com
Website:
www.adventurehimalaya.org
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