Harish Chandra Singh Rawat (3 July 1934 – 20 January 2008) was a mountaineer who climbed the Mt.

In 1962, he led a party, including Sonam Wangyal, another Everester of the 1965 expedition, to Kanglacha, 30 miles south of Leh.

In 1963, Rawat climbed Hathi Parbat and a year later he was part of the Tirsuli and Sunanda Devi expedition.

[8] Rawat had graduated from Lucknow University in 1952 and joined central government service in the same year, in Intelligence Bureau.

[10] In January 1970, he became the founder chief of the High Altitude Operations Training Centre, at Sandev, near Didihat.