On 3rd Jan 2011, in the presence of 76 mountaineers from across the mountaineering clubs in Pune, Giripremi announced its utmost ambitious expedition to world's highest mountain in 2012 . This meeting held in G. L Apate Hall, Pune. 76 members including senior mountaineers, upcoming mountaineers and supporters attended the meeting. Agenda of these meeting was to inform and involve the mountaineers from Pune in this mega project and seek suggestions, ideas and support required for the same.
In this informal meet, various aspects like fund raising, member training, coordination, decentralizing of work, equipment planning were discussed. The main challenge of this expedition is raising the huge funds. We discussed various ideas on fund raising and soon final plan will be out. Soon next meeting will be announced to update with the progress. Also, importaly President Mr Anand Palande declared that Senior Mountaineer and co-ordinator of Giripremi Mr Umesh Zirpe will be the leader for "Pune Everest -2012".
