A team of four Indian army personnel – Kunchok Tenda, Kelshang Dorjee Bhutia, Kalden Panjur and Sonam Phuntsok – are the first team to climb the world’s highest peak Mt Everest without using supplementary oxygen.
We had formed a team of ten people with the aim to scale the Everest without using oxygen cylinders, and succeeded in sending four members to the top of the world without oxygen. [...] Our aim is to climb the Everest without carrying oxygen cylinder and create history.Colonel Vishal Dubey, Leader, Snow Lion Everest Expedition 2017
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More than 4,000 people have climbed Mt Everest, which stands at a height of 8,848 metre. But among these people, only 187 people have climbed the peak without using individual oxygen cylinders.
Six sherpa guides also climbed Mt Everest with this team, but they used oxygen cylinders for their safety. This team scaled the Mt Everest on 21 May and returned to Kathmandu on Friday.
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