Pasang Kikuli

Pasang Kikuli
Pasang Kikuli in 1936
Personal information
Main disciplineMountaineering
Born1911
Sola Khumbu, Nepal
Diedabout 31 July 1939 (aged 28)
K2, Karakoram, British Raj
NationalityNepalese
Career
Starting age18 years
Starting disciplinePorter
Famous partnerships

Pasang Kikuli (1911–1939) was a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber and explorer who acted as a sirdar for many Himalayan expeditions. He died on the 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2, attempting to rescue a stranded climber.

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