EverestHistory.com: H.C.S. Rawat

H.C.S. Rawat currently lives in New Delhi. He is still active in Mountaineering. In 1997, he was the technical adviser for a much needed clean up expedition on Kun peak (7,135 meters).

1965: Third Indian Expedition, with Commander M.S Kohli as leader. On May 20, 1965 they succeed when A.S. Cheema and Sherpa Nawang Gombu ascend the SE Ridge. Gombu becomes the first person to summit Everest twice (the 11th and 17th summit). Out of the first seventeen summits of Everest, Nawang had two of them! Additional summits were achieved by Sonam Gyatso, Sonam Wangyal, C.P. Vohra, Ang Kami, H.P.S. Ahluwalia, H.C.S. Rawat, and Phu Dorje.

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