The Indian Mountaineering Foundation has awarded Nainital mountaineer Tusi Anit Sah with a gold medal. Commemorating her achievement the Nainital mountaineering club organised a programme in the lake city to felicitate the local mountaineer. At a function held in the mountaineering club situated on the campus of the CRST inter college, the head of the club Anup Sah felicited Tusi for her latest achievement. She was awarded a gold medal, a letter of honour and `50,000 cash award at a function organised by the Indian Mountaineering Federation in Delhi on November 11. The function in Delhi was attended by the leading members of the Indian mountaineering fraternity known across the globe for their accomplishments.
Basically, hailing from Kolkata in West Bengal, Tusi is married to Nainital based mountaineer Anit Sah. She had started her mountaineering activities in 2002, scaling mount Everest in 2013, mount Kunchenjunga in 2014, Thalay Sagar and about a dozen high peaks of the Himalaya mountain range. She is also stated to be the the only person to have climbed the Thalay Sagar situated in Gangotri. Expressing her views on the occasion Tusi Anit Sah said that her next aim is to climb the summit of the K-2 peak situated in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. Opining that mountaineering is a very good professional choice for the youth, the lady mountaineer said that there is need to encourage the youth towards the field of mountaineering.
Addressing the gathering on the occasion, the local mountaineering club head Anup Sah said that the Nainital mountaineering club will be commemorating its golden jubilee in the year 2017. This will be marked by events like the north zone wall climbing national championship which will be organised in Nainital. The climbing wall located in Nainital is also being upgraded, it was stated on the occasion attended by various members of the local mountaineering fraternity and local residents.