Phu Dorjee Sherpa

[3](pp.126-137) On 29 May 1965, on the fourth and final attempt on the 12th anniversary of the first conquest of Mount Everest, together with H. P. S. Ahluwalia and Harish Chandra Singh Rawat, Phu Dorjee summited Mount Everest.

[4][5][6][7] He was a porter on the approach march to the base camp for the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and was one of a small group who "showed promise" during the approach and were retained to carry loads to higher camps.

[8](p190) He was part of the "high level team" with Wilfrid Noyce which carried loads as far as the south col.[9] He was also recruited as a porter for the approach to Lhotse with the "The International Himalaya Expedition 1955" which was led by Norman Dyhrenfurth.

[8](p192) In 1963 he was part of the American Mount Everest expedition and he carried loads to the South Col.[10](p156 & 342)[3](pp.49) Phu Dorjee Sherpa was born in 1928 in Khumjung, Nepal.

[8](p179) He died in a fall on Mount Everest on 18 October 1969 whilst working with a Japanese expedition.