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For a list of mountaineer deaths on Mount Everest, see List of people who died climbing Mount Everest.
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.

Death extremes[edit]

Youngest people to die on Mount Everest[edit]

Examples of known cases[1][2][3]

  • Rahul Panchal (Ghabus), April 25, 2015, 19[1][2][4]
  • Ang Chuldim, August 31, 1982, 20[5]
  • Lobsang Sherpa, May 7, 2013, 22[6]
  • Víctor Hugo Trujillo, August 16, 1986, 22[7]
  • Michael Matthews, May 13, 1999, 22[8]
  • Andrew Irvine, June 9, 1924, 22[3]
  • Marco Siffredi, September 8, 2002, 23[9]
  • Himanshu Kapoor, April 25, 2015, 29[1][2][4]

Oldest people to die on Mount Everest[edit]

Deaths by nationality[edit]

Nationality Count
 Australia 8
 Austria 3
 Bangladesh 1
 Belgium 1
 Brazil 1
 Bulgaria 3
 Canada 6
 Chile 1
 China 12
 Czechoslovakia/ Czech Republic 7
 Denmark 2
 France 6
 Germany 7
 Hungary 3
 India 24
 Ireland 3
 Italy 3
 Japan 19
 Kenya[10] 1
 Moldova 1
 Malaysia 2
   Nepal 124
 Netherlands 1
 New Zealand 3
 North Macedonia 1
 Poland 7
 Russia 8
 South Korea 11
 Spain 4
  Switzerland 3
 Singapore 1
 Slovakia 1
 Slovenia 1
 Sweden 1
 Taiwan 2
 United Kingdom 17
 United States 21
 Ukraine 1
 Yugoslavia/ Yugoslavia 2
Other/Unknown 2

Cause of death[edit]

Cause[citation needed] Count[citation needed]
Avalanche 68
Fall 67
Exposure 27
Altitude sickness 21
Cardiac arrest 11
Exhaustion and/or exposure 8
Exhaustion 7
Serac 6
Cerebral edema 8
Stroke 2
Frostbite 1
Other 15
Unknown cause 52


Professions[edit]

Medical and scientific professionals who died on Everest[edit]

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[13]
  • Dr. Sándor Gárdos (2001), Hungarian team doctor, specialist of high altitude medicine [14]
  • Dr. Nils Antezana (2004), Pathologist[15]
  • Dr. Robert Milne (2005), Software Engineer[16]
  • Dr. Peter Kinloch (2010)[citation needed]
  • Dr. Eberhard Schaaf (2012), German doctor who died in high altitude[17]
  • Dr. Charles MacAdams (2016)[18]
  • Dr. Maria Strydom (2016)[19]
  • Dr. Roland Yearwood (2017), a medical doctor in Alabama (USA)[20]
  • Dr. Jonathan Sugarman (2023), a retired medical doctor from Washington State (USA) [21]

Astronaut fatality[edit]

Henize had been in space (see STS-51-F space mission) and co-authored many science papers.

One of the people claimed by Everest mountaineering was the U.S. astronaut Karl Gordon Henize. He was on a mission to study radiation but came down with a fatal case of HAPE in October 1993 and died at north base camp.[13] At the time he was the oldest astronaut to have flown in space and also had a doctorate in astronomy.[13] He died on October 5, 1993, and was buried on Mount Everest.[22]

Other statistics[edit]

Named corpses[edit]

The corpse known as Green Boots in its eponymous Everest cave


Died on descent after summiting[edit]

Memorial of Dimitar Ilievski, who died descending from the mountain.

Examples of those who, after summiting, died on the descent down or soon after (not counting other climbs, on the same expedition but does not have to be their first summit)

examples only

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Everest K2 News ExplorersWeb - Everest: List of Avalanche Victims". Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Human Edge Tech, Explorersweb Inc. "Adventure Consultants Everest 2015 - Dispatches - By CONTACT5.0". Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Ortner, Sherry B. (2020). Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Princeton University Press. pp. 49–51. ISBN 9780691211770 – via Project MUSE.
  4. ^ a b "Adventure Consultants Everest 2015 Expedition Dispatches". Adventure Consultants. adventureconsultants.com. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Three sherpas killed". Calgary Herald. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 1982-09-01. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Young Sherpa plunges to his death on Everest". Business Standard India. 8 May 2013.
  7. ^ Bell, George (1986-10-12). "Everest Team Finds Artifacts of '22 Expedition". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  8. ^ Douglas, Ed (2001-11-10). "Death on Everest". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  9. ^ Smith, Sarah (2002-09-27). "Everest Snowboarder Vanishes On Second Try". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on 2002-11-10. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  10. ^ Online, T. H. T. (2024-05-23). "Kenyan climber's body found, three others feared dead on Everest". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  11. ^ "New life for Dallas doctor came from near-death on Everest | Dallas Morning News". Archived from the original on 2015-09-18.
  12. ^ Woolf, Jo (2022-04-29). "Alexander Kellas: 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'". Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  13. ^ a b c "Karl G. Henize, NASA Scientist, Dies at 66 Climbing Mount Everest". The New York Times. 10 October 1993.
  14. ^ "Mécs László - Hegymászó".
  15. ^ Leahy, Michael (November 28, 2004). "The Dark Side of the Mountain". The Washington Post. p. W12.
  16. ^ "Mt. Everest 2005: Scottish climber Rob Milne dies on Everest details".
  17. ^ "Climbing's Little Helper". 14 March 2013.
  18. ^ "Charles MacAdams Obituary (2016) - Calgary, AB - The Vancouver Sun". Legacy.com.
  19. ^ Marszal, Andrew (25 May 2016). "Mount Everest climbers: Death toll rises to five". The Telegraph.
  20. ^ "Body of Indian climber spotted on Everest as weekend's death toll rises to 4". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
  21. ^ "Seattle mountaineer who died on Everest was retired doctor who 'sincerely cared for people'". 20 May 2023.
  22. ^ "Obituary: Karl Henize". Independent.co.uk. 22 October 2011.
  23. ^ "Helga's Everest nightmare - In English - Abenteuer Sport - DW.COM". blogs.dw.com. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  24. ^ a b Rachel Nuwer (9 October 2015). "BBC - Future - Death in the clouds: The problem with Everest's 200+ bodies". bbc.com. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  25. ^ "Woman dies after ascending Everest | CJOnline.com". cjonline.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
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