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Phu Dorjee Sherpa
Phu Dorjee Sherpa was the first Nepali man and twenty-third person in the world to climb Mount Everest. He was a member of the third Indian Everest Expedition 1965, led by Captain M S Kohli, which was the first successful Indian Everest Expedition. The group consisted of 21 major expedition members and 50 Sherpas. The initial attempt was at the end of April, when they returned to base camp due to bad weather and waited 2 weeks for better weather. On 29 May 1965, on the fourth and final attempt on the 12th anniversary of the first conquest of Mount Everest, together with H. P. S. Ahluwalia and Harish Chandra Singh Rawat, Phu Dorjee summited Mount Everest. This was the first time that these three climbers climbed the mountain together. He died in a fall on Mount Everest on 18 October 1969. Awards * Received the Padma Shri for being one of the first Indians to summit Mount Everest in 1965 See also *List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit *List of Mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phu Dorjee
Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji) was a Sherpa and the first Indian to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. 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. Another Phu Dorjee had summited Everest in the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition 1965; he died in a fall on Everest on 18 October 1969. References See also *Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise *List of Mount Everest records of India *List of Mount Everest records *List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit *List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest Mount Everest, at is currently the world's highest mountain and is a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Evere ... {{Indian mountaineers 1987 deaths Indian mountain climbers Year of birth missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mount Everest Summiters By Number Of Times To The Summit
The list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once. By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people. Despite two hard years of disaster (2014 and 2015), by the end of 2016 there were 7,646 summits by 4,469 people. In 2018 about 800 people summited, breaking the record for most in one year compared to 2013, in which 667 summited Mount Everest. As of July 2022, there have been approximately 11,346 summit ascents by 6,098 people. ''Note all information may not be completed/updated, it can take months and even years to update summit counts as confirmed by sources'' List of Mount Everest summitters Unclear sources additional ''Cases of possible confusion over names, sources, or unclear references'' Adventure Consultants report on summits and people by 2016: *Da Jangbu Sherpa, Nepal, 13 summits *Pemba Chhoti Sherpa, Nepal, 11 summit *Kami Rita Sherpa, Nepal, 14 summits *Purba Chhoter Sherpa (Ang Jangbu), 8 summits *Chhewang Dorji Sherpa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Deaths
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepalese Mountain Climbers
Nepali or Nepalese may refer to : Concerning Nepal * Anything of, from, or related to Nepal * Nepali people, citizens of Nepal * Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken in India * Nepal Bhasa, a Sino-Tibetan language found in Nepal, formerly the official national language * Nepalese literature * Nepalese cuisine * Nepalese culture * Nepali cinema * Nepali music Other uses * ''Nepali'' (film), a 2008 Indian Tamil-language film See also * Nepal (other) * * * Languages of Nepal * Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ... is a south Asian country with a population of nearly 30 million. {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa Summiters Of Mount Everest
Sherpa may refer to: Ethnography * Sherpa people, an ethnic group in north eastern Nepal * Sherpa language Organizations and companies * Sherpa (association), a French network of jurists dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility * Sherpa.ai, a Spanish artificial intelligence company * Sherpa Capital, an American venture capital firm * Sherpa (delivery service), an Australian courier company * SHERPA (organisation), a UK-based project team with expertise in open access and repositories ** SHERPA/RoMEO, a service to show copyright and policies of academic journals * Cloud Sherpas, an American cloud implementation and migration company, active 2008–2015 Transportation * Porter (carrier), often called a sherpa * Mountain guide, also sometimes called a sherpa * Leyland Sherpa, a light commercial vehicle produced from the 1970s until 2006 * Short C-23 Sherpa, a military variant of the Short 330 cargo aircraft, first flight was in 1982 * Short SB.4 Sherpa, an expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepalese Summiters Of Mount Everest
Nepali or Nepalese may refer to : Concerning Nepal * Anything of, from, or related to Nepal * Nepali people, citizens of Nepal * Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken in India * Nepal Bhasa, a Sino-Tibetan language found in Nepal, formerly the official national language * Nepalese literature * Nepalese cuisine * Nepalese culture * Nepali cinema * Nepali music Other uses * ''Nepali'' (film), a 2008 Indian Tamil-language film See also * Nepal (other) * * * Languages of Nepal * Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ... is a south Asian country with a population of nearly 30 million. {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of 20th-century Summiters Of Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at is currently the world's highest mountain and is a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 2000. After 2000, the number of summiters greatly increased when ascending the mountain became more accessible and more popular. By 2013, 6,871 summits had been recorded by 4,042 different people. 1950s Only six people summited Mount Everest in the 1950s: * Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953 (1953 British Mount Everest expedition) * Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet on May 23, 1956 * Dolf Reist and Hans-Rudolf von Gunten on May 24, 1956 1960s In total, 18 people summited in the 1960s. These are some of the ascents: *Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo Dorje, and Chu Ying-hua on May 25, 1960. The 1960 Chinese Mount Everest expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by the North Ridge. *Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mount Everest Records
This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest. Records Highest number of times to reach the summit Other number of times records Most times per nation First to summit a certain number of times Double summiting records Fastest ascents *Pemba Dorje's Everest record has now been rejected by the Nepal Supreme Court, the Nepal Ministry of Tourism, and ''Guinness World Records''. Deadliest accident Oldest summiters This table shows the progression of the record for oldest male summiter, as well as some additional examples of aged summiters for comparison Tenzing Norgay was older than his climbing partner Sir Edmund Hillary, as the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit, they became the modern-day starting point for the oldest and youngest climbers respectively. This table shows the progression of the record for oldest female su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mount Everest Records Of India
This is list of Mount Everest records of Indian nationals have achieved. Records * Chhanda Gayen became the first Indian to climb to the summit of any two Eight-thousanders - Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse in one go on 18 May 2013. She completed the traverse the summit of Mount Everest to the summit of Mount Lhotse in 22 hours. *Satish Gogineni is the fastest Indian to summit two 8000ers. He summited Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse within 20 Hours. * 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. * Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu is an Indian mountaineer who has climbed Mount Everest seven times. He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2014. Early life and background Dharmshaktu is from Bona village, Pithoragarh district, Utta ... - climbed Mount Everest seven times. * In 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to reach the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
''The Tribune'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and New Delhi. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore, Punjab (now in Pakistan), by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five persons as trustees. It is a major Indian newspaper with a worldwide circulation. In India, it is among the leading English daily for Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The present Editor-in-Chief of ''The Tribune'' is Rajesh Ramachandran. Previously he was editor-in-chief of ''Outlook'' magazine. Ramachandran succeeded Harish Khare, who was appointed editor-in-chief of the Tribune Group of newspapers on 1 June 2015, serving until 15 March 2018. ''The Tribune'' has two sister publications: ''Dainik Tribune'' (in Hindi) and ''Punjabi Tribune'' (in Punjabi). Naresh Kaushal, an eminent name in the field of Journalism in North India is the Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India in the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the largest city. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harish Chandra Singh Rawat
Harish Chandra Singh Rawat (3 July 1934 – 20 January 2008) was a mountaineer who climbed the Mt. Everest in 1965. He was one of the 9 summiters of the first successful Indian Everest Expeditions that climbed Mount Everest in May 1965 led by Captain M S Kohli.Rawat was a humble soul, dedicated to mountaineering: Kohli ''One India''. 21 January 2008 He is the seventh Indian man and twenty second man in world that climbed . On May 24, 1965 Vohra and Sherpa together rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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