<P> Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji) was a Sherpa and the first Indian to summit Mt . Everest without oxygen . He did so on 9 May 1984 on a solitary ascent from the South East Ridge . Dorjee died in 1987 on the Kanchanjunga Expedition of the Assam Rifles . </P> <P> Another Phu Dorjee had summited Everest in the 1965, but this person died in 1969 . </P>

Who was the first indian to climb mount everest without carrying an oxygen cylinder