Phu Dorjee
Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji)[1] was a Sherpa and the first Indian to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.[2] He did so on May 5, 1984 on a solo ascent from the South East Ridge. Dorjee died in 1987 on the Kanchanjunga Expedition of the Assam Rifles.[3]
Another Phu Dorjee had summited Everest in the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition 1965; he died in a fall on Everest on 18 October 1969.[4]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Phu Dorjee". www.everesthistory.com.
- ↑ "The first Indian man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen-Phu Dorjee". www.indianbookofrecords.com.
- ↑ "The first Indian man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen-Phu Dorjee". www.thecolorsofindia.com.
- ↑ "Phu Dorjee Sherpa". www.everesthistory.com.