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The first 2004 Indian Navy Mount Everest North Face Expedition by Indian Navy led by Satyabrata Dam recorded a total of 12 persons reaching the summit - 5 of them were Indians and 7 sherpas. Lieutenant Amit Pande was the deputy leader.
Indian Navy undertook a momentary expedition to Mount Everest in 2017 specially termed "Sagartal se Sagarmatha" meaning "Seabed to Summit" where in the ceremonial ice-axe was taken underwater to the lowest sea-bed in Karwar and was successfully taken atop the World's Highest Point. The Expedition was also inline with honouring the India's first ...
Sonam Gyatso (1923–1968) was an Indian mountaineer. [1] He was the 2nd Indian man, the 17th man in world and first person from Sikkim to summit Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. [2] [3] He was one of the nine summiters of the first successful Indian Everest Expeditions that climbed Mount Everest in May 1965 led by Captain M S Kohli.
Kumar was the deputy leader of a nine-member Indian Everest Expedition in 1965, that successfully summited the mountain. [ 7 ] [ 10 ] In 1970 he led the first recognised ascent of [23,997 feet (7,314 m)] Jomolhari (Chomo Lhari), the highest mountain in Bhutan . [ 19 ]
Wing Commander Nirupama Pandey is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first person from Bihar to have scaled Mount Everest on 25 May 2011 at 1015 hrs (IST). [1] Nirupama was part of the first-ever all-woman IAF team comprising flight lieutenant Nivedita Choudhary and flight lieutenant Rajika Sharma.
She summited Mount Everest in 2013 in the 2013 North East India Everest Expedition led by Surjit Singh Leishangthem. [7] [8] In 2017, Jamsenpa became the first woman in the world to scale the summit of Mount Everest twice in a season and the first to do so within 5 days. It is the fastest double ascent of the tallest crest by a woman.
Mount Everest 1965 Indian stamp dedicated to the 1965 Everest Expedition The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meets the members of 1965 expedition in New Delhi on 20 May 2015, the 50th anniversary of the ascent. The 1965 Indian Everest Expedition reached the summit of Mount Everest on 20 May 1965. It was the first successful scaling of the ...
Choudhary is a trained mountaineer and polar explorer. Among his notable achievements are: Mount Everest (8,848.86 m): Neeraj successfully summited the world's highest peak in 31 May 2021 as part of an expedition organized by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, under the aegis of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt of India, shortly after recovering from COVID-19.