04 June,2017 09:25 AM IST | Kathmandu | Agencies
A team of four Indian Army personnel - Kunchok Tenda, Kelshang Dorjee Bhutia, Kalden Panjur and Sonam Phuntsok — successfully climbed Mt Everest without using oxygen cylinders
A team of four Indian Army personnel - Kunchok Tenda, Kelshang Dorjee Bhutia, Kalden Panjur and Sonam Phuntsok - successfully climbed Mt Everest without using oxygen cylinders, becoming the first team to scale the summit without supplementary oxygen.
Of the 14 team members, three mountaineers - Urgyen Topgye, Ngwang Gelek and Karma Zopa - climbed Mt Everest with the support of supplementary oxygen.
"We had formed a team of 10 people with the aim to scale the Everest without using oxygen cylinder, and succeeded in sending four members to the top of the world without oxygen," said Col Vishal Dubey, leader of the Snow Lion Everest Expedition 2017.
This was the first time that any team had made an attempt to climb the Everest without supplementary oxygen.
