He was the principal of theHimalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI),Darjeeling between 1981 and 1985.[1][7] He was chosen as the leader of the 1984 Everest expedition team composed of eleven men and six women, which summitted the peak in May 1984 through the South East Ridge route.[8] The team includedBachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to scaleMount Everest andPhu Dorjee, the first Indian to climb the peak without oxygen.[9]
Khullar is a member of the Expedition Commission of theInternational Mountaineering and Climbing Federation, Berne, Switzerland.[10] He is the author of several books on mountaineering and international politics[11] and has co-authored the second book written byBachendri Pal in 2006 about the Trans-Himalayan all-women expedition of 1997. Khullar lives a retired life inAmbala in Haryana.[1]
^"Expedition Commission"(PDF). International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation. 2015. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 15 July 2015. Retrieved14 July 2015.
^D K Khullar (1999).When generals failed : the chinese invasion : abdiction from battle, Tawang, Sela, and Bomdila, 1962. Manas Publications. p. 267.ISBN9788170490982.OCLC42719474.
^D K Khullar; B K Nehru (2000).Security, peace and honour. Manas Publications. p. 232.ISBN9788170490845.OCLC51591756.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
