# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/avtar-singh-cheema
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:15:27.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/avtar-singh-cheema"
name: "Avtar Singh Cheema"
slug: "avtar-singh-cheema"
description: "Avtar Singh Cheema (1933–1989) was the first Indian born man and the 16th person in world to climb Mount Everest. Along with 8 others he was a part of the third mission undertaken by the Indian Army, in 1965, to climb Mount Everest after two failed attempts.\nThe Indian Everest Expedition 1965 put 9 mountaineers on the summit on 20 May, a record which was unbroken until the 1978 German-French Expedition 13 years later., and was led by Captain M S Kohli. Cheema's fellow summiters were Nawang Gombu, Sonam Gyatso, Sonam Wangyal, Chandra Prakash Vohra, Ang Kami, H. P. S. Ahluwalia, Harish Chandra Singh Rawat and Phu Dorjee. He was a captain in the 7th Battalion, The Parachute regiment at that time. Later he was promoted to colonel and commanded his battalion. He is also founder of Guru Harkrishan Public School in Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan."
tagline: "Indian mountain climber"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Everest_Expedition_1965_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1933"
deathDate: "1989"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump