List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.
Examples of known cases [1] [2] [3]
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| Nationality | Count |
|---|---|
 Australia | 8 |
 Austria | 3 |
 Bangladesh | 1 |
 Belgium | 1 |
 Brazil | 1 |
 Bulgaria | 3 |
 Canada | 6 |
 Chile | 1 |
 China | 12 |
 Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic | 7 |
 Denmark | 2 |
 France | 6 |
 Germany | 7 |
 Hungary | 3 |
 India | 24 |
 Ireland | 3 |
 Italy | 3 |
 Japan | 19 |
 Moldova | 1 |
 Malaysia | 2 |
 Nepal | 124 |
 Netherlands | 1 |
 New Zealand | 3 |
 North Macedonia | 1 |
 Poland | 7 |
 Russia | 8 |
 South Korea | 11 |
 Spain | 4 |
 Switzerland | 3 |
 Singapore | 1 |
 Slovakia | 1 |
 Slovenia | 1 |
 Sweden | 1 |
 Taiwan | 2 |
 United Kingdom | 17 |
 United States | 21 |
 Ukraine | 1 |
 Yugoslavia / Yugoslavia | 2 |
| Other/Unknown | 2 |
| Cause[ citation needed ] | Count[ citation needed ] |
|---|---|
| Avalanche | 68 |
| Fall | 67 |
| Exposure | 27 |
| Altitude sickness | 21 |
| Cardiac arrest | 11 |
| Exhaustion and/or exposure | 8 |
| Exhaustion | 7 |
| Serac | 6 |
| Cerebral edema | 8 |
| Stroke | 2 |
| Frostbite | 1 |
| Other | 15 |
| Unknown cause | 52 |
See also Dr. Beck Weathers, a medical doctor who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster. [10]
One of the people claimed by Everest mountaineering was the U.S. astronaut Karl Gordon Henize. He was on a mission to study radiation but came down with a fatal case of HAPE in October 1993 and died at north base camp. [12] At the time he was the oldest astronaut to have flown in space and also had a doctorate in astronomy. [12] He died on October 5, 1993, and was buried on Mount Everest. [21]
Examples of those who, after summiting, died on the descent down or soon after (not counting other climbs, on the same expedition but does not have to be their first summit)
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Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation of 8,848.86 m was most recently established in 2020 by the Chinese and Nepali authorities.
Lhotse is the fourth-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga. At an elevation of 8,516 metres (27,940 ft) above sea level, the main summit is on the border between Tibet Autonomous Region of China and the Khumbu region of Nepal.
Robert Edwin Hall was a New Zealand mountaineer. He was the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, a fellow guide, and two clients died. A best-selling account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air, and the expedition has been dramatised in the 2015 film Everest. At the time of his death, Hall had just completed his fifth ascent to the summit of Everest, more at that time than any other non-Sherpa mountaineer.
David Sharp was an English mountaineer who died near the summit of Mount Everest. His death caused controversy and debate because he was passed by several other climbers heading to and returning from the summit as he was dying, although several others tried to help him.
Ray Genet, often referred to by the nickname Pirate, was a Swiss-born American mountaineer. He was the first guide on North America's highest mountain, Alaska's Denali . Genet is the grandfather of actress Q'Orianka Kilcher.
Cathy O'Dowd is a South African rock climber, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both the south and north sides on 25 May 1996 and 29 May 1999, respectively.
Russell Reginald Brice is a New Zealand mountaineer. He was the owner/manager of Himex, a climbing expedition company. He has summited Cho Oyu seven times, Himal Chuli and Mount Everest twice, as well as Manaslu in October 2010, which was his 14th summit of an 8000 m peak.
Francys Arsentiev became the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen, on May 22, 1998. She then died during the descent.
Green Boots is the body of an unidentified climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. The body has not been officially identified, but is believed to be Tsewang Paljor, an Indian member of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition (ITBP) who died as part of the 1996 climbing disaster on the mountain wearing green Koflach mountaineering boots. All expeditions from the north side encountered the body curled in the limestone alcove cave at 8,500 m (27,900 ft) until it was moved in 2014 – likely by the China Tibet Mountaineering Association, which manages the north side of Everest.
The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996 when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on Mount Everest at the time and the third deadliest after the 23 fatalities resulting from avalanches caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake and the 16 fatalities of the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche. The 1996 disaster received widespread publicity and raised questions about the commercialization of Everest.
Hannelore Schmatz was a German climber and the fourth woman to summit Mount Everest. She collapsed and died as she was returning from summiting Everest via the southern route; Schmatz was the first woman and first German citizen to die on the upper slopes of Everest.
Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer known for his numerous ascents of major Himalayan peaks. These include 21 ascents of Mount Everest, five on Cho Oyu, two on Manaslu, and one each on Shishapangma and Lhotse.
Ang Dorje (Chhuldim) Sherpa is a Nepalese sherpa mountaineering guide, climber, and porter from Pangboche, Nepal, who has reached the summit of Mount Everest 22 times. He was the climbing Sirdar for Rob Hall's Adventure Consultants expedition to Everest in spring 1996, when a freak storm led to the deaths of eight climbers from several expeditions, considered one of the worst disasters in the history of Everest mountaineering.
Sungdare Sherpa 1956 Thame village, Solukhumbu – 1989 Pangboche) was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest, who summitted Mount Everest five times. He was the first person to summit Mount Everest three times.
Mount Everest in 2016 covers events about Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth located in Nepal and Chinese Tibet in Asia. It is a popular climbing destination for extreme high altitude climbers, with several hundred climbing each year despite various dangers.
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