Nepal honours Indian who climbed Everest for record 6 times

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Let us compliment Love Raj Singh Dharmashaktu for surmounting several obstacles & reaching the peak of Mt Everest not once but 6 times!!

[h=1]Nepal honours Indian who climbed Everest for record 6 times[/h] PTI Kathmandu:, June 09, 2017 17:21 IST






Nepal has felicitated an Indian who became the first person from the country to summit Mount Everest for a record six times.
Love Raj Singh Dharmashaktu, a Padma Shri recipient who hails from Uttarakhand, was honoured at a function organised by Adventure Sports Tourism Society in Lalitpur Metropolitan City near here on Thursday.
Mr. Dharmashaktu was appointed a Tourism Ambassador of Nepal to north India during the function.
The veteran mountaineer climbed the 8,848-metre high mountain peak, the world’s tallest, for the sixth time on May 27, according to Nepal’s Tourism Department.
Mr. Dharmashaktu, who works with India’s border-guarding force —— Border Security Force, received a felicitation letter from the Department of Tourism and Adventure Sports Tourism Society.
He first scaled Mount Everest, locally known as Sagarmatha, in 1998 and received India’s prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2003.
More than 4,000 people have so far climbed Mount Everest.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...ord-6-times/article18924024.ece?homepage=true

 

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Yes, it is great that an Indian received this award from a foreign government.
But let us not forget his achievements, and accolades he received in India.

Dharmshaktu is from Bona village, Kumaon Himalaya. He worked at Uttar Pradesh Tourism office on Special Duty and took his adventure course. Later he completed Basic Mountaineering and Advanced Mountaineering courses from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering(NIM) in 1990. He earned a specialisation in Search and Rescue.
His wife, Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu from Delhi, is also a mountaineer and holds the record as the first woman from India to ski to reach the South Pole from the coast of the Antarctica, in 2009 as a part of 8-women Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctica Expedition.
Mountaineering experience

In 1989, Dharmashaktu climbed Nanda Kot (6861 meters), accompanying as a part of a mountaineering team from Lucknow. He reached the peak. He was part of mountaineering teams that attempted Mamostong Kangri (7516 mt) in Ladakh and Nanda Bhaner (6236 mt) during 1992. He was liaison officer for a British team that attempted Nanda Ghunti (6309mt) in 1997. In 2008, he reached the summit of Kanchenjunga (8586 mt) along with a BSF team. As of June 2012, he has climbed about 38 peaks.
Everest ascents

• In 1998, he summited Mt. Everest as a part of the first Indian civilian expedition.
• In 2006, he climbed Mt. Everest for the second time with a team of BSF.
• In 2009, he led a team of NIM to Everest and reached the summit.
• In May 2012, summit Everest again, as a member of Eco Everest Expedition, which also focussed on cleaning the mountain.
• On 21, May 2013, he reached the summit of Everest for the fifth time.
• On 27, May 2017, he summited for the sixth time while leading a team of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC, India's National Oil Company) officers - 6 of whom also accomplished the feat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Raj_Singh_Dharmshaktu