Sungdare Sherpa

Mount Everest

Sungdare Sherpa (Nepali: सुन्दरे शेर्पा) was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest, who summited Everest on five different climbs.

Summit with Hannelore Schmatz

Sungdare was with Hannelore Schmatz when she died on a 1979 expedition.[1] He remained with her after she died, and as a result, lost most of his fingers and toes to frostbite.[2]

Despite losing his digits, Sungdare summitted Mount Everest four more times after the 1979 expedition.[3]

Death

Sungdare drowned in a river below his village, Pangboche, in 1989.[4]

Elizabeth Hawley stated that he was suffering from alcoholism, and that his death was a suicide.[5] He was survived by his widow, Bhingfuti.[4]

As quoted in an article in Backpacker magazine talking about Mount Everest:[6]

The Summit is always different. Sometimes it is one side and sometimes the other. It changes every time.

— Sungdare Sherpa, 1986[6]

Everest summitings

  1. 1979[6]
  2. 1981[6] October summiting[7]
  3. 1982[6] October summiting[7]
  4. 1985[6][7][8]
  5. 1988[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  2. ↑ "The Alpine Club" (PDF). Alpine-club.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  3. ↑ Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan ... - Vincanne Adams - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  4. 1 2
  5. ↑ Keeper of the Mountains: The Elizabeth Hawley Story - Bernadette McDonald - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 The Backpacker - May 1986 (Google Books link)
  7. 1 2 3 Everest 80s to 85
  8. 1 2

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