Google Doodle celebrates Nain Singh Rawat's 187th birthday: Who was he?

Disguised as a Tibetan monk, Rawat determined exact location and altitude of Tibetan capital Lhasa

Google on Saturday celebrated the 187th birthday of Nain Singh Rawat, a 19th-century Indian mountaineer who was the first man to survey Tibet and one of the first to explore the Himalayas for the British.  

 

The Doodle portrays Rawat as he might have looked on his travels — solitary and courageous, looking back over the distances he had walked, rosary beads in hand, and staff by his side.

Born in 1830 in Millam, Johar (present-day Uttarakhand, Rawat visited Tibet with his father where he picked up the local language and traditions.

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