Phu Dorjee
Indian Mountaineer
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| Intro | Indian Mountaineer | |
| Places | India | |
| is | Mountaineer | |
| Work field | Sports | |
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| Death | 1987 |
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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.