Ang dorje everest movie

Before Mt Everest turned into a “tourist peak”, before hundreds of people began lining up on a fixed rope nose-to-butt in a “traffic jam” up to the summit every climbing season, it was the final frontier in adventure, and mountaineering.

This is a story from that time.

A time when Everest was uncrowded and unpolluted, when only three expeditions had succeeded in putting men on its summit, when attempts at climbing the peak were an undertaking at the very limits of human endeavour.

In 1965, the first Indian climbers stood on top of Everest: nine of them, a record for any expedition till then. It was a team effort: 15 core members of the expedition, and as many climbing sherpas.

We spoke to the last living members of that team, eight men aged 73 to 92, still as excited about their Everest triumph as if they were telling the story for the first time. This is their story. ​

Everest, 1965

For H.P.S.

Ahluwalia, now 78, the first of these w