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Maj. '''Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna''' (1939 &ndash; April 18, 1971) was a leading mountaineer of [[India]] and a military officer. He was an instructor of skiing and mountaineering at the [[High Altitude Warfare School]], [[Gulmarg]] and had successfully climbed many mountains.<ref name=him>{{cite book|title=The Himalayan Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IE9DAAAAYAAJ|year=1971|page=325|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
He died as part of the international expedition on [[Mount Everest]] on April 18, 1971. That was his second attempt. He had to abort his first expedition in 1965 just 400 feet short of the summit.<br />
Fourteen years later, in October 1985 his younger brother, Major [[Jai Vardhan Bahuguna]], also lost his life in a Mount Everest expedition of the [[Indian Army]], along with four other army officers. Neither of the brothers would summit Mount Everest and both died near the same area in their second attempts.<ref>{{cite web | title = Dehra Dun and Mt Everest; Some Sad Memories |publisher= Hill Post| url = http://hillpost.in/2013/03/dehra-dun-and-mt-everest-some-sad-memories/62045/ |date=March 9, 2013| access-date = 2014-03-18}}</ref><ref><br />
{{cite web| title = Not eyeing records, says youngest Everest challenger |publisher=The Hindu| url = http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/youth/not-eyeing-records-says-youngest-everest-challenger/article305336.ece | date=March 26, 2010|access-date = 2014-03-18 }}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
He was posthumously awarded the [[Padma Shri]] by [[Government of India]] in 1972.<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013)|publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]]|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf}}<br />
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