Jozef Psotka

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Jozef Psotka, (born on 12 February 1934 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, died October 16, 1984 on Mount Everest, Himalayas, Nepal) was a Slovak mountaineer, at that time the oldest person in the world who reached a summit of Mount Everest without oxygen.

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He attended a high school in Košice, Czechoslovakia, and graduated in 1953. He had a lifetime passion for mountaineering, climbing Matterhorn and Nanga Parbat among other peaks. On October 15, 1984 he reached summit of Mount Everest without oxygen with Zoltán Demjan and Sherpa Ang Rita. During the return they separated and Psotka stayed on the summit and died there.

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• http://www.everesthistory.com/everestsummits/summits80.htm