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The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest. [2] 10 May 1993 Santosh Yadav: The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice. She climbed to the summit for the second time and became the first woman in the world to ever climb Mount Everest twice. Her first summit was in 1992 as part of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Expedition to Mount Everest [3]
First Gujarati sisters to climb Mount Everest, Aditi Vaidya (25 yrs.) and Anuja Vaidya (21 yrs.) Reached the top on 22 May 2019. They are from Surat. [8] Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu - climbed Mount Everest seven times. In 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest [9] [10]
India became the fourth country to scale Mount Everest. On 20 May 1965, Lt Col Avatar. S. Cheema and Nawang Gombu Sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the first Indians to do so. This was the second time that Nawang Gombu Sherpa had climbed Mount Everest. The first was with an American expedition in 1963.
Avtar Singh Cheema (1933–1989) was the first Indian man and the 16th person in world to climb Mount Everest. [1] Along with 8 others he was a part of the third mission undertaken by the Indian Army , in 1965, to climb Mount Everest after two failed attempts.
1965 Indian stamp dedicated to the 1965 Everest Expedition. C. Balakrishnan was an Indian Keralite mountaineer who was the member of the third Indian Everest expedition, led by Captain Mohan Singh Kohli in 1965 which was the first Indian successful Everest Expedition scaled the Mount Everest, consisted of 21 major expedition members and 50 Sherpas.
Many Mount Everest records are held by Nepali, especially those from the Sherpa region. On 11 May 2011, Apa Sherpa successfully reached the summit of Everest for the twenty-first time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents. [133] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29. [134] Phurba Tashi Sherpa (also 21 times)
Country Date Male climber Date Female climber References Afghanistan 2023-05-17: Samuel Dean Sidiqi [1] [2] [3] [4] Albania 2012-05-26: Gjergj Bojaxhi [5]: 2017-05-22 ...
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 5 May 1984 on a solo ascent from the South East Ridge. Dorjee died in 1987 on the Kanchanjunga Expedition of the Assam Rifles .