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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 ...
English: Deaths Per Year on Mount Everest 1921-2024. Noting Sherpa and Non-Sherpa deaths. Date: 12 December 2024: Source: Own work: Author: SquawkGuard:
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Many Mount Everest records are held by Nepali, especially those from the Sherpa region. On 11 May 2011, Apa Sherpa successfully reached the summit of Everest for the twenty-first time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents. [133] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29. [134] Phurba Tashi Sherpa (also 21 times)
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]