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{{short description|Indian mountaineer}}
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| birth_date = 1941
| birth_place = [[Bassi Pathana]], [[Fatehgarh district]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India
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| occupation = Mountaineer<br>writer<br>Army personnel
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| known for = [[Mount Everest|Everest]] ascent
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Darshan Kumar Khullar''' is an Indian mountaineer, writer and a former [[brigadier]] of the [[Indian Army]].<ref name="Bachendri and brigadier join hands over book">{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060201/asp/ranchi/story_5789057.asp | title=Bachendri and brigadier join hands over book | publisher=The Telegraph | date=1 February 2006 | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> He led the [[Mount Everest|Everest]] expedition which included [[Bachendri Pal]] and [[Phu Dorjee]] that summitted the peak in May 1984.<ref name="Bachendri Pal">{{cite web | url=http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/bachendri-pal.html | title=Bachendri Pal | publisher=iLove India | date=2015 | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="Sherpas who has Summited Everest">{{cite web|url=http://www.everesthistory.com/everestsummits/sherpa.htm |title=Sherpas who has Summited Everest |publisher=Everest History |date=2015 |access-date=14 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905083513/http://www.everesthistory.com/everestsummits/sherpa.htm |archive-date=5 September 2015 }}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1984.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=18 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

==Biography==
Born in 1941<ref name="WorldCat profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89262436/ | title=WorldCat profile | publisher=WorldCat | date=2015 | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> at [[Bassi Pathana]] in [[Fatehgarh Sahib district]] in the Indian state of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], Khullar did his education at the [[Rashtriya Indian Military College]], [[Dehradun]] and was commissioned in 1961.<ref name="Bachendri and brigadier join hands over book" /> He participated in the [[Sino-Indian War]] of 1962 and rose in ranks to become a brigadier and the principal of the [[Himalayan Mountaineering Institute]] (HMI), [[Darjeeling]] (1981–85).<ref name="Bachendri and brigadier join hands over book" /><ref name="Former Principals">{{cite web | url=http://www.hmi-darjeeling.com/history.html#our_luminaries | title=Former Principals | publisher=Himalayan Mountaineering Institute | date=2015 | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> He was chosen as the leader of the 1984 Everest expedition team composed of eleven men and six women which summitted the peak in May 1984 through the South East Ridge route.<ref name="Everest summits 151 - 300">{{cite web | url=http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/esum151-300.htm | title=Everest summits 151 - 300 | publisher=Adventure Stats | date=2015 | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> The team included [[Bachendri Pal]], the first Indian woman to scale [[Mount Everest]] and [[Phu Dorjee]], the first Indian to climb the peak without oxygen.<ref name="First Man to Climb Mount Everest Without Oxygen">{{cite web | url=http://www.thecolorsofindia.com/interesting-facts/adventure/first-man-to-climb-everest-without-oxygen.html | title=First Man to Climb Mount Everest Without Oxygen | publisher=Colours of India | date=2015 | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> He took voluntary retirement from the army in 1993.<ref name="Bachendri and brigadier join hands over book" />

Khullar is a member of the Expedition Commission of the [[International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation]], Berne, Swtizerland.<ref name="Expedition Commission">{{cite web | url=http://www.theuiaa.org/upload_area/files/1/members_of_expedition_commission.pdf | title=Expedition Commission | publisher=International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation | date=2015 | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> He is the author of several books on mountaineering and international politics<ref name="DK Agencies profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.dkagencies.com/doc/from/1023/to/21330/Author/Khullar,%20D.%20K.%20(Darshan%20Kumar),%201941-/Books-By-Indian-Author.html | title=DK Agencies profile | publisher=DK Agencies | date=2015 | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> and has co-authored the second book written by [[Bachendri Pal]] in 2006 about the Trans-Himalayan all-women expedition of 1997.<ref name="Bachendri and brigadier join hands over book" /> Some of his other publications are:
* ''The Call of Everest: First Ascent by an Indian Woman''<ref name="The Call of Everest : first ascent by an Indian woman">{{cite book | title=The Call of Everest : first ascent by an Indian woman | publisher=Vision Books | author=D K Khullar | year=1992 | pages=200 | isbn=9788170940883}}</ref>
* ''A Mountain of Happiness''<ref name="A mountain of happiness">{{cite book | title=A mountain of happiness | publisher=Interprint | author=D K Khullar | year=1995 | pages=118 | isbn=9788185017761|oclc = 315344825}}</ref>
* ''When Generals Failed: The Chinese Invasion: Abdiction from Battle, Tawang, Sela, and Bomdila, 1962''<ref name="When generals failed : the chinese invasion : abdiction from battle, Tawang, Sela, and Bomdila, 1962">{{cite book | title=When generals failed : the chinese invasion : abdiction from battle, Tawang, Sela, and Bomdila, 1962 | publisher=Manas Publications | author=D K Khullar | year=1999 | pages=267 | isbn=9788170490982|oclc = 42719474}}</ref>
* ''Security, Peace and Honour''<ref name="Security, peace and honour">{{cite book | title=Security, peace and honour | publisher=Manas Publications | author=D K Khullar; B K Nehru | year=2000 | pages=232 | isbn=9788170490845|oclc = 51591756}}</ref>
* ''Pakistan, Our Difficult Neighbour and Allied Issues''<ref name="Pakistan, our difficult neighbour and allied issues">{{cite book | title=Pakistan, our difficult neighbour and allied issues | publisher=Pushpa Books | year=2009 | pages=111 | isbn=9788188039869|oclc = 421152460}}</ref>
* ''Pakistan our Difficult Neighbour and India's Islamic Dimensions''<ref name="Pakistan our difficult neighbour and India's Islamic dimensions">{{cite book | title=Pakistan our difficult neighbour and India's Islamic dimensions | publisher=Vij Books | author=D K Khullar | year=2014 | pages=224 | isbn=9789382652755|oclc = 890952784}}</ref>

The [[Government of India]] awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1984.<ref name="Padma Awards" /> Khullar lives a retired life in [[Ambala]] in Haryana.<ref name="Bachendri and brigadier join hands over book" />

==See also==
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* [[Bachendri Pal]]
* [[Phu Dorjee]]
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{{portal|India}}
*[[Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise]]
*[[List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit]]
*[[List of Mount Everest records of India]]
*[[List of Mount Everest records]]

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