List of Mount Everest death statistics
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List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.
Death extremes
Summarize
Perspective
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 |
|---|---|
 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
| 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
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)[3][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)[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]
Other statistics
Named corpses
- "The German Woman", Hannelore Schmatz[22]
- "Green Boots", possibly Tsewang Paljor[23]
- "Sleeping Beauty", Francys Arsentiev[23]
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
- Dimitar Ilievski-Murato
- Francys Arsentiev
- Hannelore Schmatz
- Hristo Prodanov
- Jozef Psotka
- Lobsang Tshering
- Marco Siffredi
- Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
- Ray Genet
- Shoko Ota (2004)[24]
- Shriya Shah-Klorfine (2012)
- Tomas Olsson
- Vitor Negrete
- Yasuko Namba
- Matthew Edward Ball[citation needed]
See also
References
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