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] After 2000, the number of climbers greatly increased when the peak became more accessible and more popular. By 2013, 6,871 summits had been recorded by 4,042 different people.[2]
Mount Everest from the northern side. The snowy peak catching light in front of Everest is Changtse .
A post-card of Everest from the 1920s, the view from Rongbuk glacier (north side)
Only six people summited Mount Everest in the 1950s:[1]
In total, 18 people summited in the 1960s.[4] These are some of the ascents:
Wang Fuzhou , Gonpo Dorje , and Chu Ying-hua on May 25, 1960. The 1960 Chinese Mount Everest expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by the North Ridge.
Jim Whittaker and Nawang Gombu on May 1, 1963, on the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition [5] [6]
Barry Bishop ,[6] Lute Jerstad , Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein on May 22, 1963, on the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition [7]
Nawang Gombu and eight others Indian Everest Expedition 1965 on May 20, 1965
Avtar Singh Cheema
Sonam Gyatso
Sonam Wangyal
C. P. Vohra
Ang Kami
H. P. S. Ahluwalia
H. C. S. Rawat
Phu Dorjee Sherpa [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
In total, 78 people summited in the 1970s.[1] These are some of the most notable ascents:
Teruo Matsuura[15]
Naomi Uemura [15]
Katsutoshi Hirabayashi[15]
Chottare Sherpa[15]
Hubert Hillmaier
Sepp Mack (without supplementary oxygen)
Hans Engl [ de ]
Pierre Mazeaud
Nicolas Jaeger
Kurt Diemberger
Jean Afanassieff [ fr ]
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Robert Allenbach
Siegfried Hupfauer
Wilhelm Klimek
Ang Dorje (without supplementary oxygen)
Mingma Sherpa (without supplementary oxygen)
Ang Kami
George Ritter
Berndt Kullmann
In the 1980s, 871 climbers set off from Base Camp; around 180 made the summit; and 56 died.[1] [23] Overall about 356 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 1989.[1] [23] These are some of the most notable ascents of the 1980s:
Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki on February 17, 1980 (first winter ascent)[24]
Takashi Ozaki and Tsuneo Shigehiro on May 10, 1980[25]
Martin Zabaleta and Pasang Temba on May 14, 1980[26]
Jerzy Kukuczka and Andrzej Czok on May 19, 1980[27]
Reinhold Messner on August 20, 1980 (first solo ascent)[21]
Yasuo Kato [17] [28]
Eleven Soviet climbers in May 1982[29]
1982 Canadian Mount Everest Expedition[30]
Laurie Skreslet on October 5, 1982, with Sherpas Sungdare Sherpa and Lhakpa Dorje[30]
Pat Morrow on October 7, 1982, with Sherpas Pema Dorje and Lhakpa Tshering[30]
Yasuo Kato and c Toshiaki Kobayashi [28]
Lou Reichardt, Kim Momb, and Carlos Buhler on October 8, 1983[24]
Dan Reid, George Lowe and Jay Cassell on October 9, 1983[24]
Takashi Ozaki in December 1983[32]
Hristo Prodanov on April 20, 1984
Metodi Savov and Ivan Valchev on May 8, 1984[33]
Nikolay Petkov and Kiril Doskov on May 9, 1984[33]
Bachendri Pal on May 23, 1984[24]
Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer on October 3, 1984
Phil Ershler on October 20, 1984[34]
Zoltán Demján , Jozef Psotka and Sherpa Ang Rita on October 15, 1984
1985 Norwegian Expedition led by Arne Naess, in April 1985[35]
1985 Catalan Expedition: Òscar Cadiach , Antoni Sors and Carles Vallès with Shambu Tamang , Ang Karma and Narayan Shrestha on August 28, 1985[35]
Erhard Loretan and Jean Troillet in 1986
Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon on May 20, 1986
Jean-Marc Boivin 's[36] 11-12 minute, 2,948 m (9,700 ft) descent to Camp II holds the altitude record for start of a paraglider flight[37]
Marc Batard in 1988[38]
A joint team from China, Japan , and Nepal on May 5, 1988[39]
Stephen Venables on May 12, 1988[40]
Stacy Allison on September 29, 1988[24]
Lydia Bradey on 16 October 1988
Sungdare Sherpa on 10 May 1988[17]
Stipe Bozic, Viki Groselj, Dimitar Ilievski-Murato , and Sherpas Sonam and Agiva on May 10, 1989[41]
Ricardo Torres-Nava and Sherpas, Ang Lhakpa and Dorje on May 16, 1989[42]
Carlos Carsolio on July 18, 1989
In the 1990s, 3,017 people set off from Base Camp(s); around 900 reached the summit; 55 died.[1] [23] Overall about 1237 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 1999.[1] These are some of the most notable ascents in the 1990s:
International Peace Climb 1990 summiters in May 1990, led by Jim Whittaker :[43]
Robert Link
Steve Gall
Sergei Arsentiev
Grigori Lunyakov
Da Cheme
Gyal Bu
Ed Viesturs
Mistislav Gorbenko
Andrej Tselishchev
Ian Wade
Luo Tse[43]
Da Qiong
Ren Na (aka Rena)[44]
Gui Sang
Ekaterina Ivanova
Anatoli Moshnikov
Yervand Ilyinski
Aleksandr Tokarev[44]
Mark Tucker[44]
Wang Ja
Warren Thompson
Hooman Aprin on October 5, 1990[45]
Marc Batard on October 5, 1990[46]
Marija and Andrej Štremfelj on October 7, 1990
Peter Hillary , Gary Ball and Rob Hall in 1990[47]
Tim Macartney-Snape in 1990[48]
Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal in 1992[49]
Alberto Iñurrategi on 25.09.1992[50]
Rodrigo Jordan team in 1992
Mauricio Purto team in 1992
Cristian Garcia-Huidobro at 10:25 on May 15, 1992
Doron Erel in 1992
Santosh Yadav in May 1992
Mohan Singh Gunjyal on 12 May 1992[51] [52]
Kushang Sherpa on May 10, 1993[53]
Santosh Yadav and Dicky Dolma in May 1993[54]
Veikka Gustafsson in spring 1993
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa on April 22, 1993[55]
Nine people led by Steve Bell October 7, 1993[56]
Steve Bell on October 7, 1993[56]
Graham Hoyland on October 7, 1993[56]
Ginette Harrison on October 7, 1993[56]
Gary Pfisterer on October 7, 1993[56]
Scott McIvor on October 7, 1993[56]
Ramón Blanco on October 7, 1993[55]
Santosh Yadav on May 10, 1993
Park Young-seok on May 16, 1993
Ninety commercial alpinists in the spring of 1993
Alison Hargreaves May 13, 1995[57]
Waldemar Niclevitz and Mozart Catão , first Brazilians, 11:22, May 14, 1995 [58]
Jim Litch on May 14, 1995[59]
Dan Aguilar on May 14, 1995[59]
Wongchu Sherpa on May 14, 1995[59]
Apa Sherpa on May 15, 1995
Brad Bull on May 15, 1995
Tommy Heinrich on May 15, 1995
Caradog Jones on May 23, 1995[60]
Pat Falvey on 27 May 1995
Kiyoshi Furuno and Shigeki Imoto in 1995[28]
1996 Mount Everest disaster
Rob Hall (with Adventure Consultants )
Scott Fischer (with Mountain Madness )
Doug Hansen
Makalu Gau
Lene Gammelgaard
Yasuko Namba
Göran Kropp May 1996, without extra bottle oxygen[61]
Ang Rita , May 23, 1996, tenth and last time to summit Mount Everest.[61]
David Breashears team including Jamling Tenzing Norgay Ed Viesturs Araceli Segarra (see also the 1998 film Everest )
Sherpa Ang Rita summited ten times between 7 May 1983 and 23 May 1996
Hans Kammerlander 1996
Kushang Sherpa on May 17, 1996[53]
Francys and Sergei Arsentiev on May 24, 1998
Bear Grylls , Neil Laughton and Alan Silva on May 26, 1998
Tom Whittaker on May 27, 1998[62]
Kushang Sherpa on May 28, 1998[53]
Kazi Sherpa (aka Kaji Sherpa) on October 17, 1998[46] [63] [64] [65] [66]
Kushang Sherpa on May 28, 1999, until date summited from three sides of Mount Everest[53] [67]
Sherpa Babu Chiri Sherpa in 1999[68]
Phurba Tashi Sherpa[69] [70]
Cathy O'Dowd in 1996 and 1999
Elsa Ávila on May 5, 1999[71]
Renata Chlumska on May 5, 1999[72]
Ken Noguchi on May 13, 1999
Mike Trueman on May 13, 1999
Iván Vallejo on May 25, 1999[73]
[i], Merab Khabazi , and Irakli Ugulava on May 26, 1999[74]
Lev Sarkisov on May 12, 1999
Karla S Wheelock on May 27, 1999[75]
João Garcia , on May 18, 1999[75]
Fabiano Segatto ,on May 18, 1999, at 12:23pm[76]
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In total, 146 people summited in 2000.[1] Overall about 1383 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 2000.[1] These are some of the most notable ascents in 2000:
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West, John B. (1985). Everest: The Testing Place . New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 143. ISBN 0070695024 .
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Unsworth, Walt (2000). Everest – The Mountaineering History (3rd ed.). Bâton Wicks. p. 610. ISBN 978-1-898573-40-1 .
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