FULL NAME: Devidutta Panda
BORN: 1st November, 1977
PERMANENT ADDRESS: Annapal, Bhadrak, Ofisha, India.
PRESENT ADDRESS: Upasana, 533/3756, Biju Nagar, Near Big Bazar, At-Patia, PO. KIIT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, PIN-751024, Odisha, India.
PHONE: 74090-41167 (Mobile)
E-MAIL: ddpandaiaf@gmail.com
FAMILY: Father (Purna Chandra Panda), mother (Kalyani Panda), sister (Dr Purabi Priyadarshini), brother-in-law (Dr Malay Sundar Das).
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: NDA
PROFESSION: Wing Commander, Indian Air Force. At present he is posted at Air Force Station Bareilly, UP and flying Sukhoi-30 MKI multirole fighter aircraft.
HOBBIES: Cycling, Gym, Reading
TOTAL MOUNTAINS CLIMBED: 14

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:
*     Led an eight-member IAF team for an alpine style climb to Mt Papsura (6440m) in Himachal in 2015.
*     Unclimbed peak in Gorichen Region, Arunachal Pradesh in 2014. The team named this unnamed virgin peak as `Garud Parvat`.
*     Successfully scaled Mount Everest on May 25, 2011.
*     He led a five-member IAF expedition team to the highest peak of the world.
*     In 2005, he made an unsuccessful bid conquer Mount Everest. After the death of a fellow expeditionist, Devidutta gave up at a height of 8,000 metres.
*     Earlier, Devidutta scaled highest peaks of four continents as a part of AIF` Mission Seven Summit Expedition.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA:
*     He was conferred with Biju Patnaik Bravery Award by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on 28th August,  2014. Also received a cash award of Rs 9 lakh.
*     He is the fourth mountaineer from Orissa to conquer Mount Everest. The previsous three are Kalpana Dash, Ganesh Chandra Jena and Jogabhyasa Bhoi.
*     Devidutta took to mountaineering in the year 2002.
*     He has the experience of flying fighter jet Sukhoi.
*     Three frots-biten fingers of his right leg were amputed after his successful Mount Everest expedition.
*     Underwent treatment for 10 weeks at Airforce Hospital in New Delhi.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: August 29, 2011
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: September 24, 2016