KOLKATA: Arijit Dey, a Kolkata based civil engineer, has achieved a rare feat after he made it to the summit of Mount Manaslu (8,163 meter) -- the eighth highest mountain in the world without a Sherpa on Sunday evening. On Tuesday, Dey claimed that he made it to the summit without supplemental oxygen. Dey is also the first climber from Bengal to have made it to the “true summit” of Mount Manaslu after the controversy over the summit surfaced and a new summit was demarcated for the mountain.
“He has reached the summit by 6 pm on Sunday and came down to camp III by night. He did not have any Sherpa and carried his stuff himself. This is definitely a rare feat,” said Da Dendi Sherpa, owner of Glacier Himalaya Treks & Expeditions. “Dey called me after he reached camp III. He had planned to reach the summit without supplemental oxygen, but I am not sure if he managed to do that,” he added. Da Dendi Sherpa, who helped Dey in getting necessary permission for the climb, has made it to the Manaslu summit 12 times so far.
