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Jozef Psotka, (12 February 1934, Košice, Czechoslovakia – October 16, 1984 (aged 50), Mount Everest, Himalayas, Nepal) was a Slovak mountaineer, at that time the oldest person in the world who reached the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen.
Biography
He attended a high school in Košice, Czechoslovakia, and graduated in 1953. He had a lifetime passion for mountaineering, climbing Matterhorn and Kangchenjunga among other peaks. On October 15, 1984, he reached the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen with Zoltán Demján and Sherpa Ang Rita. Together with Zoltan Demján he was the first Slovak climber who reached the summit of Mount Everest.[1] During the return they separated and Psotka accidentally fell 1,000 meters to his death.
See also
Notes
- ^ "Jozef Psotka spí svoj večný sen na "Streche sveta"" (in Slovak). Journal IMIDŽ. 2006-07-07. Archived from the original on 2008-02-23. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
External links
- Everest Summits in the 1980-1985
- List of Slovak ascensionists of the eight-thousanders
- Ing. Jozef Psotka (in Slovak)
- Sportsmen from Košice - Jozef Psotka (in Slovak)