Jozef Psotka, (12 February 1934,
Košice
Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...
,
Czechoslovakia – ,
Mount Everest,
Himalayas,
Nepal) was a
Slovak mountaineer, at that time the oldest person in the world who reached the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen.
Biography
He attended a high school in Košice,
Czechoslovakia, and graduated in 1953. He had a lifetime passion for mountaineering, climbing
Matterhorn and
Kangchenjunga, among other peaks. On October 15, 1984, he reached the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen with
Zoltán Demján Zoltán () is a Hungarian masculine given name. The name days for this name are 8 March and 23 June in Hungary, and 7 April in Slovakia.
Zoltána is the feminine version.
Notable people
* Zoltán of Hungary
* Zoltan Bathory, guitarist of hea ...
and
Sherpa Ang Rita
Ang Rita Sherpa ( ne, आङरिता शेर्पा; 27 July 194821 September 2020) was a Nepalis, Nepali mountain climber, mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest ten times without the use of supplemental oxygen between 1983 and 1996. H ...
. Together with Zoltan Demján, he was the first Slovak climber who reached the summit of Mount Everest.
During the return, they separated and Psotka accidentally fell 1,000 meters to his death.
See also
*
List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
Notes
External links
Everest Summits in the 1980-1985List of Slovak ascensionists of the eight-thousanders
Sportsmen from Košice - Jozef Psotka
1934 births
1984 deaths
Sportspeople from Košice
Slovak mountain climbers
Mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest
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