Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji) was a Sherpa and the first Indian to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. 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. Another Phu Dorjee had summited Everest in the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition 1965; he died in a fall on Everest on 18 October 1969. References 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 1987 deaths Indian mountain climbers Year of birth missing Mountaineering deaths Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports Indian summiters of Mount Everest Sherpa summiters of Mount Everest Mountain climbers from Sikkim Recipients of the Arjuna Award