Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia - Sikhs The Supreme

Recipient of country's top awards Padma Bhushan, Padmashree, Arjuna Award and a National awardee and a WarHero of 1965, Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia became the 3rd Sikh to climb the Mt. Everest. He placed a tableau of GURU NANAK on the summit on May 29, 1965. He was a member of the First successful Indian expedition to Everest in 1965, under the command of a SIKH, Capt. M.S. Kohli, after two earlier expeditions, under the leadership of Brig. Gian Singh in 1960 and under the leadership of Major John Dias in 1962, which had failed. Despite being handicapped in the 1965 war, he travelled to China by road via Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Kazakhstan and Western Tibet and returned to Delhi via Lhasa and Kathmandu covering 14000 kms of Silk and Z route under cultural expedition (CACI) in 1994. Beside the above laurels, he was awarded fellowship by the Royal Geographical Society of London and for his contribution to adventure sports he was felicitated by Argentina Govt. He is the founder and chairman of Asia's biggest spinal injuries centre at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, first in Asia of its kind. He was also honoured with Nishan-e-Khalsa award on tri-centenary celebrations of the Khalsa Panth.

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