Dipankar Ghosh

Dipankar Ghosh was an Indian mountaineer from West Bengal. He is the first Bengali to climb Mount Everest and had successfully climbed five other eight-thousand-meter peaks besides Mount Everest. In 2019, the Government of India posthumously honored him with the Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award for the year 2018, the highest adventure sports honor in India. In 2018, he successfully summited Cho Oyu, the world's sixth-highest peak on the China-Nepal border, 20 kilometers west of Mount Everest.

Death In May 2019, Dipankar Ghosh went missing during his descent from Makalu in Nepal. His mortal remains were discovered by the rescue team after 8 days of his being missing.

Awards and recognition In 2019, he was posthumously honored with the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award for the year 2018 by the Government of India. He also received the Radhanath Sikdar Tenzing Norgay State Award for State Climbers, awarded by the Government of West Bengal and the Bharat Gaurav Award given by the Chief Minister of Haryana.