
How Indian mountaineering came of age with a historic ascent of Mount Everest in 1965
On 29 May 1965, Ahluwalia, H.C.S. Rawat and Phu Dorji climbed the highest mountain in the world. It was the first time three mountaineers had stood together on Everest’s summit. This was another feather in the Third Indian Everest Expedition’s hat. Over …