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North face of Mount Everest. Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) above sea level, has been host to numerous tragedies.Deaths have occurred on the mountain every year since 1978, excluding 2020, when permits were not issued due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pages in category "Deaths on Annapurna" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Anatoli Boukreev; C.
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Broad death rate: The first metric is the ratio of total deaths [c] on the mountain to successful climbers summiting over a given period. [30] The Guinness Book of World Records uses this metric to name Annapurna I as the deadliest eight-thousander, and the world's deadliest mountain with roughly one person dying for every three people who ...
Deaths on Annapurna (11 P) B. Deaths on Broad Peak (6 P) C. Deaths on Cho Oyu (7 P) Deaths in the Cordillera Blanca (2 P) D. Deaths on Denali (3 P) Deaths on ...
The storms resulted in the deaths of at least 43 people. [ 1 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Among the dead were 21 trekkers from several countries walking the Annapurna Circuit , [ 14 ] including two Slovak climbers at Dhaulagiri base camp, [ 9 ] and several local Nepali mountain guides, cooks, and yak herders. [ 15 ]
Anna Gutu [a] (1990 or 1991 – October 7, 2023) was a Ukrainian-American climber and high-altitude mountaineer. She is known for her pursuit to become the first American woman, and the third overall American climber, to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders (which are peaks above 8,000 meters in elevation).
Clearly, Annapurna, Dhaulagiri and the famous "Kangch" are the most dangerous mountains in these terms. Only in very recent years the fatality rate of Annapurna dropped below 20%, but including the fatals on the secondary summits runs her again to a ratio of nearly 1:4 - one dead body by 4 ascents.