Nepal felicitates 1st Indian who scaled Everest 6 times

Kathmandu June 9 (IANS) The first Indian man who scaled Mount Everest for a record six times was felicitated in Nepal.

Adventure Sports Tourism Society felicitated Love Raj Singh Dharmashaktu of Uttarakhand during a programme at Lalitpur district on Thursday.

The mountaineer a Padma Shri awardee achieved the feat on May 27 the Kathmandu Post reported.

Dharmashaktu who works with Indian Border Security Force received a felicitation letter from the Tourism Department s officiating Director General Durga Datta Baral and the Society s trustee Bikram Pandey.

The Society also made Dharmashaktu a Tourism Ambassador of Nepal to north India.

He had first scaled Mount Everest (known as Sagarmatha in Nepal) in 1998 and had received India s prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2003.

--IANS
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