Shillong, Oct 21: The Meghalaya Sport Climbing & Mountaineering Association announced today that Balawanhabor Rynjah, a student of Sankardev College in Shillong, has been nominated to attend the Basic Mountaineering Course at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling.
The course began today and will conclude on 17th November. Balawanhabor has been sponsored by Meghalaya’s Directorate of Sports & Youth Affairs to attend the course.
BMC is the foundation course in which men and women are initiated into mountaineering and its objectives are to teach the basic techniques of movement on rock, snow and ice; theoretical and practical aspects of mountaineering and its allied subjects, like map reading, navigation, weather, medicines, mountain hygiene, etc.
It also attempts to inculcate the right attitude amongst the trainees, enabling them to view mountaineering as an art and not just a physical or adventure activity. The course also makes available to the trainees suitable and relevant literature and reading material on mountaineering; teach them how to make themselves comfortable and manage their health in a mountain environment; introduces them to conservation of the Himalayan environment and toughen their bodies by increasing their resistance to cold, hunger and fatigue.
(Meghalaya Sport Climbing & Mountaineering Association photo)