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North face of Mount Everest. Over 340 people have died attempting to reach—or return from—the summit of Mount Everest which, at 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), is Earth's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This makes it the mountain with the most deaths, although it does not have the highest death rate.
Six of the fourteen summits of the Eight-Thousanders (Manaslu, Shishapangma, Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Mt. Everest and Makalu). The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains that rise more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level. They are all in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. This is a list of mountaineers who have died on these mountains.
See also Dr. Beck Weathers, a medical doctor who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster. [11] Dr. A. M. Kellas (1921, en route to Everest as part of expedition) [3] [12] Dr. Karl G. Henize (1993), PhD in Astronomy and U.S. Astronaut [13] Dr. Sándor Gárdos (2001), Hungarian team doctor, specialist of high altitude medicine [14]
The Himalayan Database records that she died on May 19, 2012, on the south side of Mount Everest at 8400 meters altitude. [12] Further fatalities that season include two on the north and seven on the south side, with four other deaths on the same day as Shah-Klorfine. [12] She is said to have died 250 meters (~820 feet) from Camp IV (Nepal side ...
List of people who died climbing Mount Everest; Timeline of climbing Mount Everest; Junko Tabei (Japan), the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest (16 May 1975). Wanda Rutkiewicz (Poland), the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest (16 October 1978). Hannelore Schmatz (Germany), the first woman to die on Mount ...
Fatima has been compared to Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Shia Islam. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Muhammad is said to have regarded her as the best of women [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and the dearest person to him. [ 6 ] She is often viewed as an ultimate archetype for Muslim women and an example of compassion, generosity, and enduring suffering. [ 2 ]
Khadija, Khadeeja or Khadijah (Arabic: خديجة, romanized: Khadīja) is an Arabic feminine given name, the name of Khadija bint Khuwaylid, first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In 1995, it was one of the three most popular Arabic feminine names in the Muslim world , along with Fatima and Aisha .
Shahid (Arabic: شهيد, romanized: Shahīd , fem. شهيدة, pl. شُهَدَاء ), often spelled with other variations such as "shaheed", is an Arabic word for martyr that has been adopted as a loanword in a wide variety of languages and cultures.