List of Mount Everest death statistics explained
List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.
Death extremes
Youngest people to die on Mount Everest
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
- Min Bahadur Sherchan, May 5, 2017, 85
- Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay, May 9, 2011, 82
- Nils Antezana, May 18, 2004, 69
- Jonathan Sugarman, May 1, 2023, 69
- Karl Gordon Henize, October 5, 1993, 66
- Ernst Landgraf, May 23, 2019, 65
Deaths by nationality
!Nationality!Count | 8 |
 | 3 |
 | 1 |
 | 1 |
 | 1 |
 | 3 |
 | 6 |
 | 1 |
 | 12 |
/ | 7 |
 | 2 |
 | 6 |
 | 7 |
 | 3 |
 | 24 |
 | 3 |
 | 3 |
 | 19 |
 [10] | 1 |
| 1 |
 | 2 |
| 124 |
 | 1 |
 | 3 |
| 1 |
 | 7 |
| 8 |
| 11 |
 | 4 |
 | 3 |
 | 1 |
 | 1 |
 | 1 |
 | 1 |
| 2 |
 | 17 |
 | 21 |
 | 1 |
| / | 2 |
| Other/Unknown | 2 | |
Cause of death
Professions
Medical and scientific professionals who died on Everest
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)[12]
- Dr. Karl G. Henize (1993), PhD in Astronomy and U.S. Astronaut[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)
- 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]
Other statistics
Named corpses
Died on descent after summiting
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
Notes and References
- Web site: Everest K2 News ExplorersWeb - Everest: List of Avalanche Victims. 6 May 2015.
- Web site: Adventure Consultants Everest 2015 - Dispatches - By CONTACT5.0. Human Edge Tech, Explorersweb Inc.. 6 May 2015.
- Book: Ortner, Sherry B. . Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering . Princeton University Press . 2020 . 9780691211770 . 49–51 . Project MUSE.
- News: Adventure Consultants Everest 2015 Expedition Dispatches. Adventure Consultants. adventureconsultants.com. 28 May 2016. 28 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150428231516/http://www.adventureconsultants.com/adventure/Everest%5FDispatch2015/. dead.
- News: 1982-09-01 . Three sherpas killed . 1 . Calgary Herald . Calgary, Alberta, Canada . 2022-12-16 . Newspapers.com.
- News: Young Sherpa plunges to his death on Everest. Business Standard India. 8 May 2013.
- Web site: Bell . George . 1986-10-12 . Everest Team Finds Artifacts of '22 Expedition . 2022-12-15 . Los Angeles Times.
- Web site: Douglas . Ed . 2001-11-10 . Death on Everest . 2022-12-15 . The Guardian.
- Web site: Smith . Sarah . 2002-09-27 . Everest Snowboarder Vanishes On Second Try . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20021110075243/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0927_020927_siffredi.html . 2002-11-10 . 2022-12-15 . National Geographic News.
- Web site: Online . T. H. T. . 2024-05-23 . Kenyan climber's body found, three others feared dead on Everest . 2024-05-25 . The Himalayan Times . en.
- Web site: New life for Dallas doctor came from near-death on Everest Dallas Morning News. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150918033433/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20150916-new-life-for-dallas-doctor-came-from-near-death-on-everest.ece. 2015-09-18.
- Web site: Woolf . Jo . 2022-04-29 . Alexander Kellas: 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas' . 2022-12-15 . Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
- News: Karl G. Henize, NASA Scientist, Dies at 66 Climbing Mount Everest. The New York Times. 10 October 1993.
- Web site: Mécs László - Hegymászó.
- News: The Dark Side of the Mountain . Michael . Leahy . November 28, 2004 . W12 . The Washington Post.
- Web site: Mt. Everest 2005: Scottish climber Rob Milne dies on Everest details.
- Web site: Climbing's Little Helper. 14 March 2013.
- Web site: Charles MacAdams Obituary (2016) - Calgary, AB - The Vancouver Sun. Legacy.com.
- News: Mount Everest climbers: Death toll rises to five. The Telegraph. 25 May 2016. Marszal. Andrew.
- News: Body of Indian climber spotted on Everest as weekend's death toll rises to 4. Washington Post. 2017-05-23.
- Web site: Seattle mountaineer who died on Everest was retired doctor who 'sincerely cared for people' . 20 May 2023 .
- Web site: Helga's Everest nightmare - In English - Abenteuer Sport - DW.COM. blogs.dw.com. 28 May 2016.
- Web site: BBC - Future - Death in the clouds: The problem with Everest's 200+ bodies . 9 October 2015. Rachel Nuwer. Rachel Nuwer . bbc.com. 28 May 2016.
- Web site: Woman dies after ascending Everest | CJOnline.com. cjonline.com. 28 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20140502000416/http://cjonline.com/stories/052104/pag_everest.shtml#.V0OH4l5dgnc. 2 May 2014. dead.
