A team of four Indian Army jawans successfully climbed the Mt. Everest without using oxygen cylinders, the first team to scale the world’s highest peak without supplementary oxygen.
The four climbers are Kunchok Tenda, Kelshang Dorjee Bhutia, Kalden Panjur and Sonam Phuntsok.
Of the total of 14 members of the team, Urgyen Topgye, Ngwang Gelek and Karma Zopa successfully climbed the Mt. Everest with the support of supplementary oxygen.
“We had formed a team of 10 to scale the Everest without using oxygen cylinder, and succeeded in sending four members to the top of the world without oxygen,” Col. Vishal Dubey, leader of Snow Lion Everest Expedition 2017, told PTI.
This was for the first time that any team had attempted to climb the Everest without supplementary oxygen, he added.
More than 4,000 people have so far climbed the 8,848-metre peak, and only 187 of them have done this without oxygen on an individual basis. Six Sherpa guides of the expedition also reached the top with supplement oxygen.
