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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.
Statue honoring the woman Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit but did not make it down alive. List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.
Deaths have occurred on the mountain every year since 1978, excluding 2020, when permits were not issued due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most notable deadly events on Everest were the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition , 1970 Everest disaster , 1974 Everest disaster , 1996 Everest disaster , 2014 Mount Everest avalanche , and 2015 Mount ...
The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996 when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on Mount Everest at the time and the third deadliest to date after the 23 fatalities resulting from avalanches caused by the ...
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The world’s highest mountain continues to draw climbers willing to risk their lives as they clamber past frozen corpses on their way to the top.
In 1995, Hargreaves intended to climb the three highest mountains in the world—Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga—unaided. On 13 May 1995, she became the first woman to reach summit of Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen; [3] on 13 August, she died while descending from the summit of K2. [2] [4] [5]
According to CBS News, since Everest expeditions began in the 1920s, over 300 people have died. For more People news, make sure to sign up for our newsletter! Read the original article on People .