List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.
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 |
 Kenya [10] | 1 |
 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. [11]
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(also Mount Sagarmatha or Mount Qomolangma) 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.
Lincoln Rossl Hall OAM was a veteran Australian mountain climber, adventurer and author. Lincoln was part of the first Australian expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1984, which successfully forged a new route. He reached the summit of the mountain on his second attempt in 2006, miraculously surviving the night at 8,700 m (28,543 ft) on descent, after his family was told he had died.
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.
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. There exist several theories regarding the body's identity; the most popular one claims the body belongs to 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.
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, six on Cho Oyu, eight on Manaslu, and one each on Shishapangma and Lhotse.
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.
Lhakpa Sherpa is a Nepali Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most of any woman in the world. Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. In 2000, she became the first Nepali woman to climb and descend Everest successfully. In 2016, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
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