List of Mount Everest death statistics

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

Youngest people to die on Mount Everest

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

• Pemba Sherpa, 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]
• Andrew Irvine, June 9, 1924, 22^[3]
• Marco Siffredi, September 8, 2002, 23 ^[8]
• Michael Matthews, May 13, 1999, 23^[9]

Named corpses

The corpse known as Green Boots in its eponymous Everest cave

• "The German Woman", Hannelore Schmatz^[10]
• "Green Boots", possibly Tsewang Paljor^[11]
• "Sleeping Beauty", Francys Arsentiev^[11]

Phd.s, doctor, medical professionals, etc. fatalities

• Dr. A. M. Kellas(1921, en route to Everest as part of expedition)^[3][12]
• Dr. Karl G. Henize (Phd in astronomy)(1993)^[13]
• Dr. Nils Antezana (2004, pathologist)^[14]
• Dr. Robert Milne (2005, Phd worked on software)^[15]
• Dr. Eberhard Schaaf (2012)^[16]
• Dr. Charles MacAdams (2016)^[17]
• Dr. Maria Strydom (2016)^[18]
• Peter Kinloch had completed a Phd. died in 2010 on M. Everest^[19]
• Marisa Eve Girawong (2015)^[20] (a physician assistant working as camp medic was a base-camp avalanche casualty)^[21]
• In May 2007 Libor Kozak died, and one one source said he was a medical doctor^[22][23]

See also Dr. Beck Weathers, who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster.^[24]

Died on descent after summiting

Memorial of Dimitar Ilievski, the first Macedonian to summit Everest but 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)

exampes only

• Dimitar Ilievski-Murato
• Francys Arsentiev
• Hannelore Schmatz
• Hristo Prodanov
• Jozef Psotka
• Lobsang Tshering
• Marco Siffredi
• Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
• Ray Genet
• Shoko Ota (2004)^[25]
• Shriya Shah-Klorfine (2012)
• Tomas Olsson
• Vitor Negrete
• Yasuko Namba

Deadliest events at Everest

There is some generalizations to be made about summiting and one is that the early period was involved large "siege" style expeditions funded by large organizations, these helped overcome the remote nature and many unknowns of Everest (either both from Tibet or Nepal) This gave way to lightweight style expeditions, personified by Messner's solo summiting around 1980. After this was the rise of commercial expeditions, which range from logistics only (a permit and some basic base camp supplies), to expensive guided expeditions.

Northern panoramic view of Everest from below the Gyatso La on the Friendship Highway between Lhatse and Shelkar

Another very deadly event was in 1995, when 42 perished near Everest in a large avalanche.^[29][30]

Statistics

A 2013 article in National Geographic noted 19,121 people above a base camp and 6,206 Everest summits up to the year 2012.^[31] An example of statistics is that first German woman to summit mount Everest and survive, was Helga Hengge in 1999.^[32] However, the first German (from West Germany) to make it to the summit was Hannelore Schmatz but she died on descent, getting down to about 8300 meters altitude.^[10] Fatalities may include people who died on Mount Everest that were not trying to summit (such as Everest Base Camp trekkers), or may have been climbing something else on the Everest massif such as Lhotse.

Astronaut fatality

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

One of the extraordinary 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.^[41]

Famous summiters that died after Everest

Some examples of people who later died:

• Willi Unsoeld (October 5, 1926 – March 4, 1979)
• Tenzing Norgay (29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986)
• Wanda Rutkiewicz (February 4, 1943 – May 12–13, 1992)
• Barry Bishop (January 13, 1932 – September 24, 1994)^[42]
• Edmund Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008)
• Jürg Marmet (September 14, 1927 – March 8, 2013)
• John "Brummie" Stokes (August 28, 1945 - January 10, 2016)^[43]

See also

• List of Mount Everest records
• List of people who died climbing Mount Everest

References