List of Mount Everest death statistics

List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.

For a list of mountaineer deaths on Mount Everest, see List of people who died climbing Mount Everest.
Statue honoring the woman Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit but did not make it down alive

Youngest people to die on Mount Everest

Examples of known cases[1][2][3]

  • Rahul Panchal (Ghabus), April 25, 2015, 19[1][2][4]

Ang Chuldim, August 31, 1982, 20[5]

  • Lobsang Sherpa, May 7, 2013, 22[6]
  • Víctor Hugo Trujillo, August 16, 1986, 22[7]
  • Michael Matthews, May 13, 1999, 22[8]
  • Andrew Irvine, June 9, 1924, 22[3]
  • Marco Siffredi, September 8, 2002, 23 [9]
  • Sethuraman, March 27, 2020, 21 [10]

Named corpses
The corpse known as Green Boots in its eponymous Everest cave

Medical and scientific professionals who died on Everest

See also Dr. Beck Weathers, a medical doctor who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster.[13]

  • Dr. A. M. Kellas (1921, en route to Everest as part of expedition)[3][14]
  • Dr. Karl G. Henize (1993), PhD in Astronomy[15]
  • Dr. Sándor Gárdos (2001), Hungarian team doctor, specialist of high altitude medicine [16]
  • Dr. Nils Antezana (2004), Pathologist[17]
  • Dr. Robert Milne (2005), Software Engineer[18]
  • Dr. Eberhard Schaaf (2012), German doctor who died in high altitude[19]
  • Dr. Charles MacAdams (2016)[20]
  • Dr. Maria Strydom (2016)[21]
  • Dr. Peter Kinloch (2010)[22]
  • Dr. Roland Yearwood (2017), a medical doctor in Alabama (USA)[23]

Died on descent after summiting
Memorial of Dimitar Ilievski, who died descending from the Mountain

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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Deadliest events at Everest

The history of mountaineering expeditions on Mount Everest has evolved since the first official mountaineering expedition trekked up its slopes in 1921. In subsequent decades up to the 1960s, many expeditions were funded by major organizations like the Joint Himalayan Committee and launched in a "siege" style with large climbing parties; although the 1935 and 1938 expeditions were small and low-cost as preferred by Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman.

These early campaigns helped overcome the relatively remote nature and uncharted territory of Everest. These journeys also paved the way for the "lightweight"-style small expeditions that followed. A prime example is the successful 1978 ascent by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler, the first without bottled oxygen, and followed by a 1980 solo ascent (also without bottled oxygen) by Messner.

The 80s and 90s saw the emergence and rise in the commercialization of the ascent to Everest's summit. These commercial expeditions range from logistics only (i.e. a permit and some basic base camp supplies) to expensive, professionally guided expeditions promising even laypeople an increased chance of successfully reaching the summit. The increased access now afforded to scaling the world's tallest mountain, while leading to more people successfully reaching the summit than ever before, has also seen a concomitant and exponential rise in casualties. There can be delays of two hours or more in the queue to reach the top (in the Death Zone), with a photo taken on May 22, 2019, showing a queue of about 220 climbers headed there. [25] [26]

Died Date Notes / Ref
18–22 2015 2015 Mount Everest avalanches[27]
16 2014 2014 Mount Everest avalanche[28]
8–12 1996 1996 Mount Everest disaster
6 1974 1974 French Mount Everest expedition avalanche[29]
6 1970 1970 Mount Everest disaster

Another very deadly event was in 1995, when 42 died near Everest in a large avalanche.[30][31]

Deaths by nationality

*with at least two deaths

Nationality Count
   Nepal 111
 India 19
 Japan 19
 United Kingdom 17
 United States 15
 China 12
 South Korea 11
 Australia 7
 Germany 7
 Poland 7
 Russia 7
 Canada 6
 France 6
 Czechoslovakia 5
 Spain 4
 Bulgaria 3
 Ireland 3
 Italy 3
 New Zealand 3
  Switzerland 3
 Austria 2
 Czech Republic 2
 Denmark 2
 Hungary 2
 Slovenia 2
 Taiwan 2
 Yugoslavia/ FR Yugoslavia 2
Other/Unknown 13

Cause of death
Cause Count
Avalanche 68
Fall 67
Exposure 27
Altitude sickness 21
Cardiac arrest 11
Exhaustion and/or exposure 8
Exhaustion 7
Serac 6
Cerebral oedema 7
Stroke 2
Frostbite 1
Other 15
Unknown cause 52

Astronaut fatality
Henize had been in space (see STS-51-F space mission) and co-authored many science papers

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.[15] At the time he was the oldest astronaut to have flown in space and also had a doctorate in astronomy.[15] He died on October 5, 1993, and was buried on Mount Everest.[32]

See also

References
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  14. Ortner 2001, p. 31
  16. http://mecslaszlo.blogspot.hu/2011/10/gardos-sandor-dr.html
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  24. "Woman dies after ascending Everest | CJOnline.com". cjonline.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  25. "Mount Everest is so crowded this year there is a risk of traffic jams". Stuff (Fairfax). 5 May 2019.
  26. "Two climbers die waiting in queue to reach Mount Everest's summit". Stuff (Fairfax). 24 May 2019.
  27. "Avalanche triggered by quake kills 18 on Mount Everest". Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  28. Krakauer, Jon (21 April 2014). "Death and Anger on Everest". The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 April 2014. Of the twenty-five men hit by the falling ice, sixteen were killed, all of them Nepalis working for guided climbing teams.
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