Tarun Saikia

Tarun Saikia is a mountaineer and the first climber from Assam to scale Mount Everest. He reached the summit on 18 May 2013 as part of an expedition organised by the Manipur mountaineering and trekking association under the leadership of Dr L Surjit Singh. The team had thirteen members, of whom eleven summited successfully, which makes his ascent part of one of the larger collective successes on the mountain that season rather than a solo effort.