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{{short description|Indian mountaineer}}
{{for|the politician|Harish Rawat}}

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[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meets the members of 1965 Everest Expedition on the golden jubilee of the occasion, in New Delhi on May 20, 2015.jpg|thumb|250px| Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meets the members of Indian Everest Expedition 1965 on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of this on May 20 , 2015 ]]
[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meets the members of 1965 Everest Expedition on the golden jubilee of the occasion, in New Delhi on May 20, 2015 (2).jpg|thumb|250px |Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meets the members of Indian Everest Expedition 1965 on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of this on May 20 , 2015]]
[[File:Everest Expedition 1965 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|1965 Indian stamp dedicated to the 1965 Everest Expedition]]

'''Harish Chandra Singh Rawat''' (3 July 1934 – 20 January 2008) was a [[mountaineer]] who climbed the [[Mount Everest|Mt. Everest]] in 1965.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.everesthistory.com/climbers/rawat.htm |title= Harish Chandra Singh Rawat -|website=www.everesthistory.com}}</ref> He was one of the 9 summiters of the first successful [[Indian Everest Expedition 1965| Indian Everest Expeditions]] that climbed [[Mount Everest]] on May 1965 led by [[Mohan Singh Kohli|Captain M S Kohli]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.istampgallery.com/indian-mount-everest-expedition/|title=First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website=www.istampgallery.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/25939/did-you-know-that-50-years-ago-9-indians-held-a-record-for-climbing-mount-everest/|title=First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website=www.thebetterindia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjF7ZzEJPhg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/UjF7ZzEJPhg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHkwqaXLmooC|title= Nine Atop Everest-First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website= books.google.com.sa|isbn= 9788173871115|last1= Kohli|first1= M. S.|date= December 2000}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/ZDIwIHEyFLl1y3lVvqtQ5J/The-first-Indians-on-Everest.html|title= The first Indians on Everest-First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website= www.livemint.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/26/2/nine-atop-everest/|title= The first Indians on Everest-First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website= www.himalayanclub.org}}</ref><ref name=r1>[https://www.oneindia.com/2008/01/20/rawat-was-a-humble-soul-dedicated-to-mountaineering-kohli-1200903774.html Rawat was a humble soul, dedicated to mountaineering: Kohli]. ''One India''. 21 January 2008</ref> He is the seventh Indian man and twenty second man in world that climbed [[Mount Everest]]. On May 24th 1965 ''' Vohra''' and [[Ang Kami]] Sherpa together reached the top of [[Mount Everest]]
On May 29, 12 years to the day from the first ascent of [[Mount Everest]] the fourth and last summit team with Major [[H. P. S. Ahluwalia]] and [[Phu Dorjee Sherpa]], '''Rawat''' reached on the summit. This was the first time three climbers stood on the summit together.

==Biography==
Rawat participated in a number of expeditions including [[Nanda Devi]], [[Sunanda Devi]], [[Kanglacha]], [[Hathi Parbat]], [[Tirsuli]], [[Rathong]], [[Nanda Khat]] and [[Nun Kun]].
In 1962, he led a party, including Sonam Wangyal, another Everester of the 1965 expedition, to Kanglacha, 30 miles south of Leh. In 1963, Rawat climbed Hathi Parbat and a year later he was part of the Tirsuli and Sunanda Devi expedition. In the pre-Everest preparations, he climbed Rathong.

Rawat also participated in a joint ascent by the Indian intelligence and the U.S. [[Central Intelligence Agency]] to the [[Nanda Devi]] peak to test the Chinese missile program development. At that time (1965), he was and later worked for social welfare in [[Uttarakhand]]. He died of a [[lung cancer]] in [[New Delhi]], aged 74. He was vice president of the [[Indian Mountaineering Foundation]].<ref name=r1/>

Rawat had graduated from Lucknow University in 1952 and joined central government service in the same year, in [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Intelligence Bureau]]. He was posted as Deputy Central Intelligence Officer, Gorakhpur, in October 1963.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.gazette.csl_extraordinary.1963-11-30.E-1853-1963-0000-83930/mode/2up Gazette of India notification]</ref> Thereafter he shifted to Special Service Bureau (now [[Sashastra Seema Bal]]). He was Joint Assistant Director in SSB headquarters in 1965.<ref>[https://ssb.gov.in/index1.aspx?langid=1&lev=4&lsid=308&pid=298&Cid=0&lid=309 Profile at SSB website], [https://web.archive.org/web/20210916011012/https://ssb.gov.in/index1.aspx?langid=1&lev=4&lsid=308&pid=298&Cid=0&lid=309&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 archived copy]</ref> In January 1970, he became the founder chief of the High Altitude Operations Training Centre, at Sandev, near [[Didihat]].<ref>[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=yajeAAAAMAAJ Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs], M. S. Kohli and Kenneth J. Conboy, 2002, page 193</ref> In October 1972, it was merged with SSB's Frontier Academy at [[Gwaldam]] as its Mountaineering Wing, and Rawat became that wing's first Senior Instructor.<ref>[https://ssb.gov.in/printmain.aspx?langid=1&lsid=3275&lev=2&lid=3002 Training Records, Mountaineering Wing, SSB], [https://web.archive.org/web/20210916014450/https://ssb.gov.in/printmain.aspx?langid=1&lsid=3275&lev=2&lid=3002&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 archived copy]</ref>

==Honors and Awards ==
He was awarded [[Arjuna award]]<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in/showfile.asp?link_temp_id=560|title= Arjuna Award for The first Indians on Everest on 1965-|website= www.sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in}}</ref> and [[Padma Shri]]<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/?Year=1965-1965&Award=Padma%20Shri&Field=Sports|title= Padma Shree for The first Indians on Everest on 1965-|website= www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in}}</ref> for his achievements.

==References==
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==See also==
*[[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]]

{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Sports}}
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[[Category:Mountain climbers from Uttarakhand]]
[[Category:1934 births]]
[[Category:2008 deaths]]

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