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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.
List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest. Examples of known cases[1][2][3] See also Dr. Beck Weathers, a medical doctor who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster. [11] Memorial of Dimitar Ilievski, who died descending from the mountain.
More than 300 people have died in their attempts to scale Mount Everest. And the peak’s death toll keeps climbing. 2023 marked one of its deadliest years on record, and during the spring 2024...
As of Monday, May 22, the fatalities include four Sherpas and six foreign climbers. On April 12, a collapsing ice tower buried and killed three Sherpa guides in the Khumbu Icefall. The seven...
Since Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first men to stand on its summit in 1953, the mountain has been summited more than 7,000 times by more than 4,000 people, who have left a trail of...
In fact, more than 300 people are known to have died on the mountain. And yet the mountain still draws hundreds of climbers who are determined to reach its peak every spring. Here’s what it...
At least five people have died this year, Nepali officials confirmed, and the figure could rise. A Nepali climber, Binod Babu Bastakoti, 37, died on Wednesday just above a base for the...