Legendary climber Gurdial dies at 99 : vimarsana.com

Gurdial Singh, the pioneering climber who led independent India’s first mountaineering expedition in 1951 and was a member of the country’s first successful expedition to Mount Everest in 1965, died today at age 99.

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