Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji)^[1] was a Sherpa and the first Indian to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.^[2] 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.^[3]

Another Phu Dorjee had summited Everest in the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition 1965; he died in a fall on Everest on 18 October 1969.^[4]

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See also

• Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise
• List of Mount Everest records of India
• List of Mount Everest records
• List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
• List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest