Phu Dorjee
Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji)[1] was a Sherpa and the first Indian to summit Mt. Everest without oxygen. He did so on 09 May 1984 on a solitary ascent from the South East Ridge. Dorjee died in 1987 on the Kanchanjunga Expedition of the Assam Rifles. [2]
Another Phu Dorjee had had summited Everest in the 1965, but this person died in 1969. [3]
References
See also
- List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
- List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
- List of Mount Everest records of India
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