Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji) was a Sherpa and the first Indian to summit Mount

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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

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Expedition of the

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. Another Phu Dorjee had summited Everest in the 1965

Indian Everest Expedition 1965 The 1965 Indian Everest Expedition reached the summit of Mount Everest on 20 May 1965. It was the first successful scaling of the mountain by an Indian climbing expedition. After the first conquest of Mount Everest in 1953 by the New Zeal ...

; he died in a fall on Everest on 18 October 1969.

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