Mohan Singh Kohli

Captain Mohan Singh Kohli (b. December 11, 1931 at Haripur) is an internationally renowned Indian mountaineer. An officer in the Indian Navy who joined the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, he led the 1965 Indian expedition which put nine men on the summit of Everest, a world record which lasted for 17 years. He may be most famous though for revealing 1960s' Himalayan expeditions for the CIA that placed equipment to monitor nuclear sites in China.

Mohan Kohli was President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation from 1989 to 1993. In 1989, he co-founded the Himalayan Environment Trust. He has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan and Arjuna Award.

Books and Magazine

• Incredible Himalayas, Indus Publishing (2005) ISBN 8173871795
• Mountains of India, Indus Publishing (2004) ISBN 8173871353
• Spies in the Snow, How CIA and the Indian Intelligence Lost a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas, http://www.caravanmagazine.in/Story.aspx?Storyid=628&StoryStyle=FullStory
• Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs, University Press of Kansas (2003) ISBN 0700612238
• The Himalayas: Playground of the Gods: Trekking, Climbing, Adventure (2000) ISBN 8173871078
• Mountaineering in India (1989)

External links

• Bio details on publisher's website
• History of mountaineering in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police
• The missing radioactive sensor, Deccan Herald, April 25, 2004
• CIA nuclear device atop Himalayas, Times of India, June 5, 2003
• profile of Captain M.S. Kohli on geocities