Sonam Wangyal

Sonam Wangyal (born 1942) is a former Indian para military personnel and mountaineer who climbed Mt Everest in 1965 at the age 23, making him the youngest summiter[1],[2].He was one of the 9 summiters of the first successful Indian Everest Expeditions that climbed Mount Everest on May 1965 led by Captain M S Kohli[3], [4],[5],[6], [7][8].He is the third Indian man and eighteenth man in world that climbed Mount Everest .On May 22 -1965 first time that the Oldest Sonam Gyatso at 42 and the Youngest Sonam Wangyal at 23 climbed Everest together

Sonam Wangyal
Born1942
Sikkim, India
AllegianceIndia
Awards
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meets the members of Indian Everest Expedition 1965 on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of this on May 20 , 2015
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meets the members of Indian Everest Expedition 1965 on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of this on May 20 , 2015
1965 Indian stamp dedicated to the 1965 Everest Expedition

Honors and Awards

He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1965 [9],[10] followed by the Arjuna Award in 1965 [11] . He served as the Principal of the Sonam Mountaineering Institute in Gangtok (Sikkim) from 1976 to 1990. He retired as Assistant Director of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in 1993, and now lives in Leh.[12]


References
  1. "Sonam Wangyal -". www.everesthistory.com.
  2. M.S. Kohli (2000). Nine Atop Everest: Spectacular Indian Ascent. Indus Publishing. pp. 228–. ISBN 978-81-7387-111-5.
  3. "First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-". www.istampgallery.com.
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  7. "The first Indians on Everest-First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-". www.livemint.com.
  8. "The first Indians on Everest-First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-". www.himalayanclub.org.
  9. "Padma Shree for The first Indians on Everest on 1965-". www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in.
  10. "Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs.
  11. "Arjuna Award for The first Indians on Everest on 1965-". www.sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in.
  12. M.P. Nathanael (7 July 2002). "He has lived a hero's life". The Sunday Tribune. Retrieved 19 March 2014.

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