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On April 18, 2014, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall. [ 11][ 12][ 13] On April 25, 2015, 19 people—the most ever in a single day on Everest—were killed in an avalanche at base camp after a 7.8 earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal. [ 14][ 15][ 16] During the 2023 ...
As of May 2022, there had been 11,341 successful summits, and 330 people had died during their attempts: a death rate of about 2.8%. [ 1] Since 2019 the Nepali government has initiated periodic "clean-up" campaigns on the mountain, these have included the removal of the bodies of some dead climbers. [ 2]
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]
2010. May 17 – Gregory Attard - a medical doctor working at Saint James Hospital, Malta, Marco Cremona, and Robert Gatt became the first persons from Malta to summit. [ 185] May 20 – Đorđije Vujičić, Dragutin Vujović, and Marko Blečić became the first persons from Montenegro to summit Mt Everest.
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) and thus a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 2000. [1]
This list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once. By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people. [1] [2] By the end of 2016 there were 7,646 summits by 4,469 people. [3] In 2018 about 800 people summited, breaking the record for most in one year compared to 2013, in which 667 summited Mount Everest ...
First U.S. woman to climb Mount Everest without help of oxygen; died on the descent. Francys Arsentiev (January 18, 1958 – May 24, 1998) became the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen, on May 22, 1998. [ 1] She then died during the descent.
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. [135] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29. [136] Phurba Tashi Sherpa (also 21 times)