List of deaths on eight-thousanders

The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains that rise more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level. They are all in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. This is a list of mountaineers who have died on these mountains.

Six of the fourteen summits of the Eight-Thousanders (Manaslu, Shishapangma, Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Mt. Everest and Makalu).

By Mountain

Mount Everest

Main article: List of people who died climbing Mount Everest

North face of Mount Everest.

Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) above sea level, has been host to numerous tragedies. Deaths have occurred on the mountain every year since 1978, excluding 2020, when permits were not issued due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most notable deadly events on Everest were the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition, 1970 Everest disaster, 1974 Everest disaster, 1996 Everest disaster, 2014 Mount Everest avalanche, and 2015 Mount Everest avalanches and the 2023 Mount Everest season. As of December 2024, there had been 12,884 successful summits, and 340 people had died either before or after reaching the peak.^[1] Since 2019 the Nepali government has initiated periodic "clean-up" campaigns on the mountain, including bodies of climbers.^[2]

K2

Northern vantage of K2.

K2 is the world's second-highest mountain at 8,611 meters (28,251 ft) above sea level. It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang. While its summit is at a lower altitude than the summit of Mount Everest, it is considered a much harder mountain to climb due to its steep faces and extreme weather. The most deadly events on K2 were the 1986 K2 disaster, 1995 K2 disaster, and 2008 K2 disaster. As of August 2023, an estimated 800 people had completed a summit, and 96 had died on the mountain.^[3]

List of deaths on K2

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
28 July 2024	Kazuya Hiraide	Japan	Unknown, possible fall	[4]
	Kenro Nakajima
14 July 2024	Ser Muhammad	Pakistan	Acute mountain sickness	[5][6]
27 July 2023	Muhammad Hassan Shigri [de]	Pakistan	Unknown	[7]
22 July 2022	Matthew Eakin	Australia	Fall	[8]
	Richard Cartier	Canada	Fall
21 July 2022	Ali Akbar Sakhi	Afghanistan	Unknown, suspected altitude sickness	[9]
25 July 2021	Rick Allen	United Kingdom	Avalanche	[10]
5 February 2021	Ali Sadpara	Pakistan	2021 K2 disaster: Froze to death in storm, remains found July 2021	[11][12][13]
	Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto	Chile
	John Snorri Sigurjónsson	Iceland
5 February 2021	Atanas Skatov	Bulgaria	Fall during descent from Camp 3	[14]
16 January 2021	Sergi Mingote	Spain	Fall during descent from Camp 1	[15]
22 July 2018	Watanabe Kojiro	Japan	Fall during descent	[16]
7 July 2018	Serge Dessureault	Canada	Fall	[17]
30 July 2014	Miguel Ángel Pérez	Spain	Unclear, likely altitude sickness	[18][19]
26/27 July 2013	Marty Schmidt	New Zealand /  United States	Avalanche	[20][21]
	Denali Schmidt
6 February 2012	Vitaliy Gorelik	Russia	Frostbite	[22]
6 August 2010	Fredrik Ericsson	Sweden	Fall from the Bottleneck	[18][23][24]
17 July 2010	Petar Georgiev Unzhiev	Bulgaria	Altitude sickness	[18][25]
23 June 2009	Michele Fait	Italy	Fall with skis	[18][26]
2 August 2008	Hwang Dong-jin	South Korea	2008 K2 disaster	[18][27]
	Park Kyeong-hyo			[18][28]
	Kim Hyo-gyung
	Pasang Bhote	Nepal
	Jumic Bhote
	Gerard McDonnell	Ireland	Second or third serac fall
	Meherban Karim	Pakistan
1/2 August 2008	Hugues d'Aubarède	France	Fall during descent
1 August 2008	Rolf Bae	Norway	First serac fall
	Jahan Baig	Pakistan	Fall while trying to recover Mandić's corpse
	Dren Mandić	Serbia	Fall during ascent
20 July 2007	Stefano Zavka	Italy	Unknown (disappeared)	[18][29]
	Nima Nurbu	Nepal	Fall from the Bottleneck	[18]
13 August 2006	Arkadi Kuvakin	Russia	Avalanche	[18]
	Aleksandr Foigt
	Petr Kuznetsov [ru]
	Yuri Uteshev
19 August 2004	Manel de la Matta Sastre [ca]	Spain	Peritonitis	[18]
2 August 2004	Davoud Khadem Asl	Iran	Lost in storm, presumed dead	[18]
	Sergei Sokolov	Russia
28 July 2004	Aleksandr Gubaev	Kyrgyzstan	Fall	[18][24]
8 June 2004	Pae Kyong-kyu	South Korea	Avalanche	[18]
	Kim Jae-koung
	Lee Hwa-hyeung
21 July 2003	Klaus-Dieter Grohs	Germany	Fall	[18]
22 July 2002	Muhammad Iqbal	Pakistan	Fall	[18]
13 July 2002	Sher Ajman	Pakistan	Avalanche	[18]
22 July 2001	Park Young-do	South Korea	Fall	[18]
10 July 1999	Mihai Cioroianu [ro]	Romania	Hit by rockfall	[18]
14 August 1996	Igor Benkin	Russia	Exhaustion	[18][24]
29 July 1996	Lorenzo Mazzoleni	Italy	Fall	[18]
15 August 1995	Jeff Lakes	Canada	Exhaustion	[18]
13 August 1995	Bruce Grant	New Zealand	1995 K2 disaster	[18]
	Rob Slater	United States
	Alison Hargreaves	United Kingdom
	Javier Escartin	Spain
	Javier Olivar
	Lorenzo Ortiz
6 July 1995	Jordi Anglès Soler [ca]	Spain	Fall	[18]
11 August 1994	Juan Antonio "Atxo" Apellániz [ca]	Spain	HACE	[18][24]
24 July 1994	Steve Untch	United States	Fall from broken rope while trying to assist injured Michael Groom off the mountain.	[18][30]
10 July 1994	Dmitri Ibragim-Zade	Ukraine	Killed in a storm	[31]
	Aleksandr Parkhomenko
	Aleksei Kharaldin
31 July 1993	Daniel Bidner	Sweden	Altitude sickness, fall	[18][32]
30 July 1993	Reinmar Joswig	Germany	Fall	[18][24]
	Peter Mezger		Fall	[18][24]
7 July 1993	Dan Culver	Canada	Fall	[18][33]
15 June 1993	Boštjan Kekec [sl]	Slovenia	Altitude sickness	[18][34]
14 August 1992	Adrián Benítez	Mexico	Fall	[18]
28 July 1989	Hans Bärnthaler [de]	Austria	Avalanche	[18]
24 August 1987	Suzuki Akira	Japan	Fall	[18]
10 August 1986	Dobrosława Miodowicz-Wolf	Poland	Exhaustion	[18] See also: 1986 K2 disaster
	Alfred Imitzer	Austria	Altitude sickness
	Hannes Wieser		Altitude sickness
	Alan Rouse	United Kingdom	Altitude sickness
7 August 1986	Julie Tullis	United Kingdom	Altitude sickness	[18]
4 August 1986	Mohammad Ali	Pakistan	Stonefall	[18][35]
3 August 1986	Wojciech Wróż [pl]	Poland	Fall	[18]
16 July 1986	Renato Casarotto [ru]	Italy	Fall into crevasse	[18]
10 July 1986	Tadeusz Piotrowski	Poland	Fall	[18]
24 June 1986	Maurice Barrard	France	Disappeared, remains found in 1998 near Camp 1	[18][24]
	Liliane Barrard		Disappeared, remains found 19 July 1986, near the South Face	[18][24][36]
21 June 1986	John Smolich	United States	Avalanche	[18]
	Alan Pennington
7 July 1985	Daniel Lacroix	France	Unknown (disappeared)	[18][37]
15 August 1982	Yanagisawa Yukihiro	Japan	Fall	[18][37]
30 July 1982	Halina Krüger-Syrokomska [pl]	Poland	Stroke	[18]
19 August 1979	Laskhar Khan	Pakistan	Stroke	[18]
9 June 1979	Ali, Son of Kazim	Pakistan	Fall into crevasse	[18]
12 June 1978	Nick Estcourt	United Kingdom	Avalanche	[18][38]
21 June 1954	Mario Puchoz	Italy	Pneumonia	[18]
10 August 1953	Art Gilkey	United States	Avalanche	[18]
31 July 1939	Pasang Kikuli	Nepal	Unknown (disappeared)	[18]
	Pasang Kitar
	Pintso
30 July 1939	Dudley Wolfe	United States	Altitude sickness, severe dehydration	[18]

Kangchenjunga

The summit of Kangchenjunga in the background.

Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit sits at 8,586 meters (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas called the Kangchenjunga Himal. Because of its remote location in Nepal and the difficulty of accessing it from India, the Kangchenjunga region is not much explored by trekkers. Despite modern improvements to climbing gear, the fatality rate of summit attempts on Kanchenjunga is high. While there had been 532 successful summits as of May 2022, 52 climbers had lost their lives on the mountain.^[1] 10 more climbers had died on Yalung Kang (Kangchenjunga West), one of several satellite peaks in the massif, which features routes to the summit of Kangchenjunga.^[1]

List of deaths on Kangchenjunga

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
25 May 2023	Luis Stitzinger	Germany	HAPE and HACE	[39][40]
5 May 2022	Narayanan Iyer	India	Altitude sickness	[1][41]
16 May 2019	Biplab Baidya	India	Exposure, frostbite	[1][42]
	Kuntal Kanrar
15 May 2019	Rodrigo Francisco Vivanco Figueroa	Chile	Unknown (disappeared)	[1][43]
20 May 2014	Chhanda Gayen	India	Fall on descent above Camp 4 on Yalung Kang	[1][44]
	Migma Temba Sherpa	Nepal
	Dawa Wangchu Sherpa
20 May 2013	Bibas Gurung Sherpa	Nepal	Fall	[1][45][46][47]
	Phu Dorchi Sherpa		Fall
	Park Nam-soo	South Korea	Fall
	Péter Kiss [de]	Hungary	Fall on descent above Camp 4	[1][45][46][47][48]
	Zsolt Erőss		Exhaustion
24 May 2007	Iñigo de Pineda Blanc	Spain	Fall	[1][49][50]
24 May 2002	Christopher Hugh "Chris" Grasswick	Canada	Fall	[1][50][51]
23 April 2000	Ang Dawa Tamang	Nepal	Hit by ice block	[1][52]
14 September 1999	Hyun Myeong-kun	South Korea	Avalanche	[1][50][53]
	Han Do-kyu			[1][53]
16 May 1998	Shiina Atsushi	Japan	Altitude sickness	[1][54]
	Akasaka Kenzo		Fall	[1][54]
6 October 1995	Benoît Chamoux	France	Fall	[1][55]
	Riku Sherpa	Nepal	Fall	[1][56]
5 October 1995	Pierre Alain Royer	France	Fall	[1][55]
Autumn 1995	Sukaraj Limbu	Nepal	Altitude sickness	[1]
23 October 1994	Iordanka Ivanova Dimitrova	Bulgaria	Avalanche	[1][50][57]
9 October 1994	Sergei Zhvirblya	Belarus	Avalanche	[1][50]
	Ekaterina Ivanova	Russia		[1][50]
13 May 1992	Wanda Rutkiewicz	Poland	Unknown (disappeared)	[1]
25 April 1992	Ang Dorje Sherpa	Nepal	Suffocation	[1][50][58]
	Lhakpa Nuru Sherpa
16 May 1991	Pasang Sherpa	India	Fall	[1][50]
3 May 1991	Jože Rozman [sl]	Yugoslavia	Fall	[1][34][50]
	Marija Frantar		Fall	[1][50]
20 December 1989	Tchiring Chumbi Lama Sherpa	Nepal	Fall on Yalung Kang	[1][50]
	Ang Dawa Sherpa
	Jin Kyo-sup	South Korea
17 May 1988	Sanjay Borole	India	Exhaustion	[1][50][59]
31 May 1987	Chander Singh	India	Fall	[1][50]
25 May 1987	Choten Tsering	India	Fall	[1][50]
	Phupu Bhotia
	Phu Dorjee
11 January 1986	Andrzej "Leszek" Czok	Poland	Altitude sickness	[1][50]
22 April 1985	Borut Bergant	Yugoslavia	Fall on Yalung Kang	[1][34][50]
15 January 1985	Chris Howard Chandler	United States	Altitude sickness	[1][50][60]
15 October 1981	Jean-Jacques Ricouard	France	Fall	[1][50]
4 May 1980	Alfonso Medina Rubio	Mexico	Fall on Yalung Kang	[1][50]
	Sergio Hugo Saldaña Meneses		Fall on Yalung Kang
8 April 1977	Sukhvinder Singh	India	Fall	[1][50]
15 May 1973	Matsuda Takao	Japan	Hit by rock after summitting Yalung Kang	[1][61]
26 May 1955	Pemi Dorje Sherpa	India	Unknown illness	[1][50]
9 August 1931	Hermann "Xaverl" Schaller	Germany	Avalanche	[1][50]
	Pasang Sherpa	British Raj
August 1931	Babu Lall	British Raj	Blackwater fever	[1][50][62]
July 1931	Lobsang	British Raj	Unknown illness	[1][50]
8 May 1930	Chettan Sherpa	British Raj	Avalanche	[63][50]
27 May 1929	Edgar Francis Farmer	United States	Unknown (disappeared)	[1][50][62]
1 September 1905	Unknown	British Raj	Fall	[1][50]
	Unknown
	Unknown
	Alexis A. Pache	Switzerland		[1][50][64]
28 August 1905	Unnamed porter	British Raj		[1][50]

Lhotse

The south face of Lhotse, as seen from Chukhung Ri.

Standing at 8,516 meters (27,940 ft) above sea level, Lhotse is the fourth-highest mountain in the world. It is part of the Everest massif, and its standard climbing route follows the same path as Everest's South Col route up to the Yellow Band beyond Camp 3. After the Yellow Band, the routes diverge with climbers bound for Everest taking a left over the Geneva Spur up to the South Col, while Lhotse climbers take a right further up the Lhotse face. As of May 2022, there had been 1,089 successful summits and 22 deaths on Lhotse.^[1] A further 10 deaths had occurred on Lhotse Shar, a subsidiary mountain of Lhotse that offers a more difficult climb to Lhotse's peak than the standard route.^[1]

List of deaths on Lhotse

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
20 May 2024	Gabriel Viorel Tabara	Romania	Found dead in tent	[65][66]
8 May 2022	Khudam Bir Tamang	Nepal	Avalanche on south face	[1][67]
17 May 2019	Ivan Tomov [bg]	Bulgaria	HACE	[1][68]
17 May 2018	Rustem Amirov	Russia	Altitude sickness	[1][69]
19 May 2016	Ang Phurba Sherpa	Nepal	Fall	[1][70]
27 April 2015	Yomagato Horoshi	Japan	2015 Mount Everest avalanche (died in Kathmandu of injuries)	[71][72][73]
25 April 2015	Ge Zhen-fang	China	2015 Mount Everest avalanche	[1][72][73]
18 April 2014	Asman Tamang	Nepal	2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche	[1][74]
20 May 2013	Lee Hsiao-shih	Taiwan	Altitude sickness	[1][75][76]
16 October 2012	Temba Sherpa	Nepal	Fall	[1][77]
19 May 2012	Milan Sedláček	Czech Republic	Exposure, frostbite	[1][78]
7 May 2010	Sergei Duganov	Russia	Altitude sickness	[1][79][80][81]
25 May 2009	Sergei Samoilov	Kazakhstan	Fall	[1][82][83]
21 May 2007	Pemba Doma Thaktopa Sherpa	Nepal	Fall	[1][83][84]
9 May 2006	Pavel Kalný	Czech Republic	Fall	[1][83][85]
5 October 2003	Hwang Sun-dug	South Korea	Avalanche on Lhotse Shar	[1][83]
	Park Joo-hoon
17 September 2000	Vladimir Bondarev	Russia	Avalanche	[1][83]
27 May 1997	Vladimir Bachkirov [ru]	Russia	Altitude sickness	[1][83][86]
24 October 1989	Jerzy Kukuczka	Poland	Fall	[1][83][87]
27 September 1987	Antoni Sors i Ferrer [ca]	Spain	Avalanche on Lhotse Shar	[1][83]
	Sergio Reinaldo Escalera Fernandez
	Francisco Porras Cerda
	Antonio Quiñones Tores
15 September 1987	Czesław Jakiel [pl]	Poland	Avalanche	[1][83]
30 October 1986	Pedro Alonso Lopez	Spain	Fall on Lhotse Shar	[1][83]
25 October 1985	Rafał Chołda [pl]	Poland	Fall	[1][83]
25 October 1981	Josef Fauchere	Switzerland	Fall on Lhotse Shar	[1]
16 October 1981	Philippe Petten	Switzerland	Fall on Lhotse Shar	[1][83]
	Pierre Favez		Fall on Lhotse Shar
17 May 1980	Pasang Nima Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[1][83]
28 April 1980	Nicolas Jaeger	France	Unknown (disappeared on Lhotse Shar)	[1][83]
12 May 1977	Max Lutz	West Germany	Fall	[1][83]
17 December 1974	Stanisław Latałło [pl]	Poland	Exhaustion	[1][83]

Makalu

South-western vantage of the Makalu summit.

Makalu is the world's fifth-highest mountain at 8,481 meters (27,825 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest on the China–Nepal border. As of December 2024, there had been 800 successful summits of Makalu and 50 deaths on the mountain.^[1]

List of deaths on Makalu

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
14 May 2024	Johnny Saliba	France	Altitude sickness	[88]
7 May 2024	Lakpa Tenji Sherpa	Nepal	Exhaustion	[89][90]
24 October 2021	Henrik T. Adersen	Denmark	Unknown (died near Base Camp; likely a trekker as no climbing permits were issued in autumn 2021)	[91]
24 May 2019	Nima Tenji Sherpa	Nepal	Storm, altitude sickness	[1][92]
16 May 2019	Dipankar Ghosh	India	Exhaustion	[1][93]
	Narayan Singh		Exhaustion	[1][94]
8 May 2019	Richard Leopoldo Hidalgo Jara	Peru	Died in sleep, likely altitude sickness	[1][95]
15 May 2018	Ang Dawa Sherpa	Nepal	Unknown illness	[1][96]
10 May 2016	Lakpa Ongyal Sherpa	Nepal	Unknown illness	[1][97]
	Da Tenji Sherpa		Unknown illness	[1][97]
2 May 2014	Yannick Claude Sylvain Gagneret	France	HACE	[1][98]
23 April 2013	Liu Xiang-yang	China	Fall during descent	[1][99]
22 May 2011	Joëlle Catherine Brupbacher	Switzerland	Altitude sickness	[1][100][101]
26 May 2010	Zaharias "Haris" Kiriakakis	Greece	Unknown (disappeared)	[1][79][102]
1 May 2009	Sangat Ram Thakur	India	Fall	[1][103]
20 May 2008	Nil Prasad Gurung	Nepal	Altitude sickness	[1][103]
24 April 2008	Drabey Bahadur Rajan Magar	Nepal	Falling rock/ice	[1][103]
27 January 2006	Jean-Christophe Lafaille	France	Fall into crevasse	[1][103]
15 May 2005	Sumba Sherpa	Nepal	Altitude sickness	[1][103]
18 May 2004	Jay Sieger	United States	Fall	[1][103][104]
17 May 2004	Vladislav Terzyul	Ukraine	Unknown (disappeared)	[1][103]
25 April 2002	Raymond David Caughron	United States	Exposure, frostbite	[1][103][105]
Spring 2002	Pramod Sunar	Nepal	Unspecified	[1]
Spring 2002	Karma Wangchu Sherpa	Nepal	Unspecified	[1]
Spring 2002	Prakash Kundip Karki	Nepal	Unspecified	[1]
Spring 2002	Ongchhu Sherpa	Nepal	Unspecified	[1]
Spring 2002	Sarki Sherpa	Nepal	Unspecified	[1]
Spring 2002	Nima Dorje Tamang	Nepal	Unspecified	[1]
14 May 2001	Erich Resch	Austria	Fall	[1][103]
16 May 2000	Bernd Mehnert	Germany	Altitude sickness	[1][103]
11 October 1999	Sange Pemba Sherpa	Nepal	Fall	[1][103]
30 April 1999	Michael Knakkergaard-Jørgensen	Denmark	Fall	[1][103]
12 October 1997	Per Lyhne	Denmark	Unknown illness	[1][103]
24 May 1997	Igor Bougatshevski [ru]	Russia	Falling rock/ice	[1][86][103]
21 May 1997	Salavat Khabibulin	Russia	Exhaustion	[1][86][103]
14 May 1996	Anatoli Chlekht	Russia	Fall	[1][103][106]
8 May 1995	David Victor Hume	Australia	Fall	[1][103]
8 October 1991	Ishizaka Takumi	Japan	Exposure, frostbite	[1][103]
2 October 1991	Manu Badiola [eu]	Spain	Fall	[1][103]
14 October 1988	Ryszard Kołakowski [pl]	Poland	Fall	[1][103]
25 September 1986	Marcel Rüedi	Switzerland	Altitude sickness	[1][103]
Autumn 1986	Kancha Gurung	Nepal	Altitude sickness	[1]
13 September 1984	Ram Bahadur Shrestha	Nepal	Altitude sickness	[1][103]
15 October 1983	Mark Peter Moorhead	Australia	Fall	[1][103]
3 October 1983	Matthew William "Bill" Denz	New Zealand	Avalanche	[1][103]
Spring 1983	Unknown	Nepal	Unknown	[1]
26 September 1982	Tadeusz Szulc	Poland	Unknown illness	[1][103]
6 October 1978	Andrzej Młynarczyk	Poland	Avalanche	[1][103]
24 May 1976	Karel Schubert	Czechoslovakia	Exposure, frostbite	[1][103]
21 May 1973	Jan Kounický	Czechoslovakia	Fall	[1][103]
26 September 1954	Dilli Bahadur Verma	Nepal	Pneumonia	[1][103]

Cho Oyu

The summit of Cho Oyu, as seen from Gokyo.

Cho Oyu is the world's sixth-highest mountain at 8,188 meters (26,864 ft) above sea level. Standing on the China Tibet–Nepal Province No. 1 border, the mountain is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalaya 20 kilometers west of Mount Everest. Its standard northwest ridge route features generally moderate slopes, and it is close to Nangpa La, a glaciated pass that serves as the main trading route between the Tibetans and the Khumbu's Sherpas. For these reasons, Cho Oyu is considered the easiest 8,000-meter peak to climb. As of December 2024, there had been 4,027 successful summits and 52 deaths on the mountain.^[1]

List of deaths on Cho Oyu

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
29 April 2019	Phujung Bhote	Nepal	Fall into crevasse	[1]
16 May 2018	Park Shin-yong	South Korea	Exhaustion, altitude sickness	[1][107]
26 September 2011	Joerg Henry Manuel Henning	Germany	Avalanche	[1][108]
23 September 2011	Rostislav Krpec	Czech Republic	Unknown illness	[1][108][109]
22 May 2011	Ronald Naar	Netherlands	Altitude sickness	[1]
3 October 2010	Walter Nones	Italy	Fall	[1][110]
3 May 2010	Serguey Nikitin	Russia	HACE	[1][79]
26 September 2009	Clifton Harlan Wells "Cliff" Maloney	United States	Unknown illness	[1]
2 June 2009	Dennis Verhoeve	Netherlands	Fall	[1][111]
4 October 2008	Miha Valič	Slovenia	Altitude sickness	[1]
3 October 2008	Guy Leveille	Canada	Fall	[1]
9 May 2006	Raymund M. Spang	Germany	Fall	[1]
11 May 2005	Lubos Stacho	Slovakia	Unknown illness	[1]
13 October 2004	Xabier Ormazabal [eu]	Spain	Exhaustion, fall	[1][112][113]
6 October 2003	Christos Barouchas	Greece	Exhaustion	[1]
16 May 2003	Guenter Welkisch	Germany	Altitude sickness	[1]
14 May 2003	Paul Bernard Carr	Australia	Heart attack	[1][114]
14 May 2002	Adam Joseph Cinnamond	United Kingdom	Fall into crevasse	[1][115]
30 April 2002	Chhong Ringee Sherpa	Nepal	Unknown	[1]
9 September 2001	Kim Su-ya	South Korea	Altitude sickness	[1]
11 October 2000	Pavle Milošević	Serbia	HAPE, heart problems	[1][116]
20 September 2000	Pemba Gyalzen Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[1]
	Pasang Nuru Sherpa
	Pasang Nima Sherpa
4 May 2000	Pavel Bonadyssenko	Russia	Fall	[1][117]
	Noora Toivonen	Finland	Fall	[1][118]
Winter 1999	Joan Carrillo Junca	Spain	Fall	[1]
26 September 1998	Alexander "Alex" Jaggi	Switzerland	Unknown illness	[1]
13 May 1998	Gerald Roesner	Germany	Fall	[1]
30 April 1998	Viktor Stepanov	Russia	Unknown illness	[1]
10 October 1996	Lubos Becak	Czech Republic	Altitude sickness	[1]
6 October 1996	Oya Hiroshi	Japan	Altitude sickness	[1]
20 April 1996	Friedrich "Fritz" Zintl	Germany	Unknown illness	[1]
8 October 1994	Lhakpa Gyalu Sherpa	Nepal	Unknown illness	[1]
24 January 1994	Juan Carlos Piedra	Switzerland	Fall	[1]
	Jean-Luc Beausire		Fall
20 May 1992	Philippe Gerard Arnold Monnerat	Switzerland	Fall	[1]
21 October 1991	Yuri Grebeniuk	Soviet Union	Falling rock/ice	[1]
11 May 1991	Horst Wasmann	Germany	Fall	[1]
Summer 1990	Chandra Gurung	Nepal	Unknown illness	[1]
25 December 1989	Ang Lhakpa Nuru Sherpa	Nepal	Fall	[1]
29 September 1988	Daniel Bovero	France	Altitude sickness	[1]
12 May 1988	Stefan Wörner	Switzerland	Altitude sickness	[1][119]
23 October 1986	Pierre-Alain Steiner	Switzerland	Fall	[1]
19 May 1982	Reinhard Karl	West Germany	Avalanche	[1]
7 May 1964	Alois Thurmayr	West Germany	Altitude sickness	[1]
4 May 1964	Georg Huber	West Germany	Altitude sickness	[1]
2 October 1959	Chhowang Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[1]
	Ang Norbu Sherpa
	Claudine van der Straten-Ponthoz	Belgium
	Claude Kogan	France		[1][120]
28 April 1958	Narendra Dhar "Nandu" Jayal	India	Altitude sickness	[1]

Dhaulagiri I

The summit of Dhaulagiri I.

Dhaulagiri I is the world's seventh highest mountain. There had been 691 successful ascents since the first one, by a team led by Kurt Diemberger in 1960. 87 people are known to have lost their lives on the slopes of Dhaulagiri I.^[1]

List of deaths on Dhaulagiri I

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
6-8 October 2024[a]	Alexandr Dusheyko	Russia	Fall	[121]
	Oleg Kruglov
	Vladimir Chistikov
	Mihail Nosenko
	Dmitriy Shpilevoy
14 October 2023	Nadezhda Oleneva	Russia	Fall	[122]
6 October 2022	Ram Bahadur Tamang	Nepal	Unknown	[123]
12 April 2022	Antonios Sykaris	Greece	Illness	[124]
27 September 2018	Dawa Gyaljen Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[125]
30 April 2018	Simone La Terra	Italy	Storm	[126]
20 May 2017	Ang Ngima Sherpa	Nepal	Fall/Exposure	[127]
19 May 2016	Rajib Bhattacharya	India	Altitude sickness	[128]
16 May 2016	Christiaan Johan Wilson	Netherlands	Disappeared	[129][130]
15 October 2014	Ján Matlák	Slovakia	Avalanche	[131][132]
	Vladimír Švancár			[131][132]
	Bhoj Kumar Rai	Nepal		[131][132]
	Gopal Rai			[131][132]
	Dorje Sherpa			[131][132]
26 May 2013	Juanjo Garra [ca]	Spain	Fall and exposure	[45][133][134][135]
23 May 2013	Chizuko Kono	Japan	Exhaustion	[45][135][136]
23 May 2013	Dawa Sherpa	Nepal	Disappeared	[135][136]
28 September 2010	Daisuke Honda	Japan	Avalanche	[137][138][139]
28 September 2010	Osamu Tanabe	Japan	Avalanche	[137][138]
28 September 2010	Pasang Gyelu	Nepal	Avalanche	[137][138]
28 September 2010	Toshio Yamamoto	Japan	Avalanche	[137][138]
13 May 2010	Zhao Liang	China	Fall	[79][140]
13 May 2010	Li Bin	China	Cold/ Exhaustion	[140][141]
13 May 2010	Han Xin	China	Fall	[140]
1 May 2009	Mehdi Etemad Far	Iran	Fall	[142]
8 April 2009	Piotr Morawski	Poland	Fall into crevasse	[143]
5 May 2008	Rafael Guillén	Spain	Fall	[144]
5 May 2008	Darío Bracali [es]	Argentina	Disappeared	[144]
12 May 2007	Santiago Sagaste [an]	Spain	Avalanche	[145]
12 May 2007	Ricardo Valencia [es]	Spain	Avalanche	[145]
30 April 2007	Sergio Dalla Longa	Italy	Fall	[146]
May 2004	Jože Šepič [sl]	Slovenia	Fall	[147][148]
14 October 2001	Yukihiko Shinagawa	Japan	Disappeared	[149]
14 October 2001	Ryushi Hoshino	Japan	Disappeared	[149]
14 October 2001	Masashi Fukumoto	Japan	Disappeared	[149]
11 October 2001	Jose Antonio Garces	Spain	Fall	[150]
7 October 2000	Gyalzen Chuldim	Nepal	Avalanche
29 September 2000	Soo-ho Lee	South Korea	Avalanche	[151]
24 October 1999	Ginette Harrison	United Kingdom	Avalanche	[152]
24 October 1999	Dawa Dorje	Nepal	Avalanche	[153]
2 October 1998	Charalampos (Babis) Tsoupras	Greece	Fall	[154]
11 May 1998	Chantal Mauduit	France	Avalanche	[155]
11 May 1998	Ang Tshering	Nepal	Avalanche	[155]
1 May 1998	Nikos Papandreou	Greece	Fall	[156][154]
6 October 1995	Isayoshi Tawaraya	Japan	Disappeared	[157]
15 May 1995	Albrecht Hammann	Germany	Exposure	[158]
18 October 1994	Galina Chekanova	Ukraine	Fall	[155][159][160]
26 September 1994	Robert Bähler	Switzerland	Fall	[161]
6 October 1993	Gary Ball	New Zealand	Altitude Sickness	[162]
11 May 1992	Sanda Dumitrescu-Isaila	Romania	Disappeared	[163]
11 May 1992	Taina Coliban	Romania	Disappeared	[163]
2 May 1992	Hubert Weinzierl	Germany	Heart Failure	[164]
31 October 1990	Dainius Makauskas	Lithuania	Disappeared	[165]
29 April 1990	Wangel	Nepal	Avalanche
25 December 1989	Scot McGrath	United States	Avalanche	[166]
25 December 1989	Gregory Barber	United States	Avalanche	[166]
25 December 1989	Wangchuk Nuru	Nepal	Avalanche	[166]
10 October 1989	Francesc (Quico) Dalmases	Spain	Disappeared	[167]
25 September 1989	Sarki Kami	Nepal	Avalanche	[168]
25 September 1989	Ajiba	Nepal	Avalanche	[168]
21 September 1986	Franz Mülleder	Austria	Edema	[169]
23 October 1984	Jan Simon	Czechoslovakia	Fall	[170]
23 May 1981	Mario Serrano	Argentina	Fall	[171]
7 October 1980	Lynette R. Griffith	Australia	Avalanche	[172]
14 May 1979	Sherpa Pemba	Nepal	Disappeared	[173]
13 May 1979	Jean-Louis Sabarly	France	Avalanche	[173]
13 May 1979	Eric Poumailloux	France	Avalanche	[173]
20 October 1978	Katsuyoshi Kogure	Japan	Fall/Exposure	[174]
23 September 1978	Kiyoshi Kobayashi	Japan	Avalanche	[174]
23 September 1978	Yujiro Fukasawa	Japan	Avalanche	[174]
23 September 1978	Hiroshi Akuzawa	Japan	Avalanche	[174]
21 April 1978	Katsumi Naganuma	Japan	Exhaustion	[175]
26 March 1975	Yoshitada Numao	Japan	Avalanche	[176]
26 March 1975	Tetsu Imura	Japan	Avalanche	[176]
26 March 1975	Pasang Kami	Nepal	Avalanche	[176]
26 March 1975	Dorje	Nepal	Avalanche	[176]
26 March 1975	Dakiya	Nepal	Avalanche	[176]
28 April 1969	David Seidman	United States	Avalanche	[177]
28 April 1969	Ross William	United States	Avalanche	[177]
28 April 1969	Vincent Hoeman	United States	Avalanche	[177]
28 April 1969	Paul Gerhard	United States	Avalanche	[177]
28 April 1969	Boyd Everett	United States	Avalanche	[177]
28 April 1969	Pemba Phutar	Nepal	Avalanche	[177]
28 April 1969	Tenzing	Nepal	Avalanche	[177]
29 April 1959	Heinrich Roiss	Austria	Fall	[178]
26 May 1956	Bal Bahadur	Nepal	Avalanche	[179]
30 June 1954	Francisco (Paco) Ibáñez	Argentina	Pneumonia/Infection	[180]

Manaslu

The summit of Manaslu at dawn.

Manaslu is the world's eighth highest mountain. While the peak was known to the local population, foreign visitors became aware of its existence in 1950. During the next five years Japanese expeditions were exploring the area and in 1956 Toshio Imanishi and Gyaltsen Norbu successfully climbed the mountain.^[181] Due to tensions between climbers and inhabitants, for the next two decades visits to Manaslu were sporadic, lasting until the 1970s. As of December 2024 there is a total of 3,317 successful summits, with 90 people dying on mountain.^[1]

List of deaths on Manaslu

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
2 October 2022	Dawa Chhiring Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[182]
26 September 2022	Hilaree Nelson	United States	Fall	[183]
26 September 2022	Anup Rai	Nepal	Avalanche	[184]
29 September 2021	Brent Seal	Canada	Stroke	[185]
28 September 2019	Rita Donata Bladyko	Poland	Altitude sickness	[186]
29 September 2018	Roman Hlávko	Czech Republic	Probably fall	[187]
8 September 2018	Hiromi Komatsu	Japan	Rescue helicopter crash	[188]
25 September 2017	Philip Harvey	United Kingdom	Altitude Sickness	[189]
26 October 2016	Hirotaka Onodera	Japan	Fall	[190]
1 October 2015	Zoltan Benedek	Austria	Probably altitude sickness	[191]
26 September 2014	Yoshimasa Sasaki	Japan	Fall	[192]
4 October 2012	Victor Correa	Colombia	Unknown (disappeared)	[193]
23 September 2012	Dominique Ouimet	Canada	Avalanche	[194]
	Gregory Ugo Costa	France		[194]
	Alberto Magliano	Italy		[194]
	Catherine Marie Andree Ricard	France		[194]
	Christian Mittermeyer	Germany		[194]
	Dawa Dorji Sherpa	Nepal		[194]
	Fabrice Priez	France		[194]
	Ludovic Challeat	France		[194]
	Marti Roig Gasull	Spain		[194]
	Phillippe Lucien Bos	France		[194]
	Rémy Lécluse	France		[194][195][196]
11 May 2012	Jafar Naseri	Iran	Unknown (disappeared)	[197]
12 May 2011	Tashi Chhiring	Nepal	Unknown (disappeared)	[198][199]
12 May 2011	Bernard Jean Francois Milian	France	Unknown (disappeared)	[198][199]
12 May 2011	Alain Pierre Marie Laurens	France	Unknown (disappeared)	[198][199]
29 April 2011	Eisa Mir-Shekari	Iran	Altitude sickness	[198]
24 September 2010	Nobuaki Kuwabara	Japan	Illness	[198]
24 April 2010	Chi-won Yun	South Korea	Unknown (disappeared)	[198]
24 April 2010	Haeng-su Park	South Korea	Exhaustion	[198]
3 October 2009	Franc Oderlap [sl]	Slovenia	Hit by falling seracs, died in hospital	[198]
19 May 2009	Levente Szabó	Hungary	Fall	[198]
28 April 2009	Giuseppe Antonelli	Italy	Illness	[198]
5 October 2008	Daniel Goulevitch	France	Altitude sickness	[198]
13 May 2008	Hasta Bahadur Gurung	Nepal	Illness	[198]
28 May 2006	Susan Erica Fear	Australia	Fall in crevasse	[198][200]
13 October 2001	Isao Kuribara	Nepal	Altitude sickness, Exhaustion	[198]
30 October 1998	Hristo Stantchev	Bulgaria	Fall	[198]
26 October 1998	Lenin Granados	Colombia	Avalanche	[198][201]
9 October 1997	Miroslav Rybansky	Slovakia	Collapsed	[198]
8 October 1997	Juraj Kardhordo	Slovakia	Unknown (disappeared)	[198]
1 October 1996	Masatsugu Konishi	Japan	Unknown (disappeared)	[198]
7 May 1995	Michael Zunk	Germany	Fall	[198][202]
6 May 1995	Jörg Starke	Germany	Fall	[198][202]
22 October 1993	Sergei Jadrychnikov	Russia	Avalanche	[198][202]
21 October 1993	Igor Khmiliar	Russia	Fall	[198][202]
3 October 1992	Sven Vermeiren	Belgium	Fall	[198]
2 October 1992	Sylwia Dmowska	Poland	Fall	[198]
10 May 1991	Karl Großrubatscher	Italy	Fall	[198]
10 May 1991	Friedl Mutschlechner [de]	Italy	Lightning	[198]
7 September 1990	Murat Galiev	Soviet Union	Fall	[198]
7 September 1990	Zinur Halitov [ru]	Soviet Union	Fall	[198]
7 September 1990	Grigory Lunjakov [ru]	Soviet Union	Fall	[198]
27 March 1990	Nima Wangchuk Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[198]
27 March 1990	Charles "Chuck" Schertz	United States	Avalanche	[198]
27 March 1990	Nancy Jackson	United States	Avalanche	[198]
7 May 1989	Santiago Suarez	Spain	Fall	[198]
28 October 1987	Ichigi Kudo	Japan	Fall	[198]
4 May 1986	Dieter Oberbichler	Austria	Fall	[198]
3 May 1986	Wilhelm Klaiber	West Germany	Unknown (disappeared)	[198]
25 October 1985	Nima Norbu Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[198]
4 May 1985	Thomas Juen	Austria	Avalanche	[198]
11 December 1983	Stanisław Jaworski	Poland	Fall	[203]
24 April 1983	Ante Bućan	Yugoslavia	Avalanche	[198]
24 April 1983	Nejc Zaplotnik [sl]	Yugoslavia	Avalanche	[198]
18 December 1982	Takashi Sakuma	Japan	Cold, Exhaustion	[198]
10 May 1982	Pere Aymerich	Spain	Avalanche	[198]
10 May 1982	Enric Font Lloret	Spain	Avalanche	[198]
8 October 1979	Edgardo Jose Porsellana	Argentina	Avalanche	[198]
5 May 1974	Teiko Suzuki	Japan	Unknown (disappeared)	[198]
26 April 1972	Andi Schlick	Austria	Unknown (disappeared)	[198]
25 April 1972	Franz Jäger	Austria	Unknown (disappeared)	[198]
10 April 1972	Wangel	Nepal	Avalanche	[198]
	Rinsing Ongyal			[198]
	Phurba Tenzing			[198]
	Pemba Rinji (Nawang Chultim)			[198]
	Pasang Nima			[198]
	Gyalze			[198]
	Ang Tendi (Ang Dawa)			[198]
	Ang Rita			[198]
	Ang Mingma (b)			[198]
	Ang Mingma (a)			[198]
	Kazunari Yasuhisha	Japan		[198]
	Chang-hee Park	South Korea		[198]
	Sae-keon Oh			[198]
	Joon-haeng Song			[198]
	Ho-sup Kim			[198]
4 May 1971	Ki-sup Kim	South Korea	Fall	[198]

Nanga Parbat

The summit of Nanga Parbat, as seen from the air.

Nanga Parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain. It's known for being extremely hard to climb; named the "Killer Mountain" by the 1953 German expedition, first to successfully reach the peak.^[204][205] In addition to the large number of climbing deaths, 11 mountaineers were killed in 2013 by Taliban.

List of deaths on Nanga Parbat

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
3 July 2023	Paweł Kopeć	Poland	Altitude sickness	[206][207]
24 February - 7 March 2019[b]	Daniele Nardi [it]	Italy	Unknown	[208][209]
	Tom Ballard	United Kingdom		[208][209]
27/28 January 2018	Tomasz Mackiewicz	Poland	Altitude sickness	[210][211]
24 June 2017	Alberto Zerain	Spain	Avalanche	[212]
24 June 2017	Mariano Galván [es]	Argentina	Avalanche	[212]
22 June 2013	Igor Svergun	Ukraine	Killed by Taliban at Diamir Base Camp	[213]
	Badawi Kashaev [uk]			[213]
	Dmitry Konyaev			[213]
	Rao Jianfeng [zh]	China		[213]
	Yang Chunfeng [zh]			[213]
	Honglu Chen	China[c]		[213]
	Sona Sherpa	Nepal		[213]
	Ernestas Markšaitis	Lithuania		[213]
	Ali Hussain	Pakistan		[213]
	Anton Dobes	Slovakia		[213]
	Peter Šperka [sk]			[213]
6 February 2013	Joel Wischnewski	France	Avalanche	[214][215]
11 July 2009	Mi-young Go	South Korea	Fall	[216]
10 July 2009	Wolfgang Kölblinger	Austria	Fall	[217]
17 July 2008	Saman Nemati	Iran	Unknown	[217]
15 July 2008	Karl Unterkircher	Italy	Fell into crevasse	[217]
28 July 2006	Naohiro Ozawa	Japan	Unknown	[217]
22 July 2006	José Antonio Delgado	Venezuela	Exposure	[217]
1 July 2004	Günter Jung	Germany	Fall	[217]
26 July 1998	Hideki Ohmiya	Japan	Fall	[217]
30 July 1997	Joan Colet	Spain	Fell during descent	[217]
20 June 1996	Răzvan Petcu	Romania	Avalanche	[217]
	Gabriel Stana			[217]
24 June 1994	Antonio Lopez	Spain	Fall	[217]
7 July 1993	Chun-moon Ahn	South Korea	Unknown	[217]
18 August 1990	Osami Nakajima	Japan	Fall	[217]
3 July 1990	Chang-gi Park	South Korea	Fall into a crevasse	[217]
18 July 1989	Tetsuya Baba	Japan	Lightning strike	[217]
23 June 1989	Kwang-ho Kim	South Korea	Fall	[217]
10 July 1985	Piotr Kalmus	Poland	Avalanche	[217]
8 December 1984	Hiromi Kameda	Japan	Fall	[217]
7 July 1984	Fuji Tsunoda	Japan	Avalanche	[217]
	Shigeoh Hida			[217]
	Nobuyuki Imakyurei			[217]
	Takashi Kogure			[217]
12 July 1983	Nobuyoshi Yamada	Japan	Avalanche	[217]
	Yuichiro Takamori			[217]
	Satoshi Iida			[217]
17 June 1983	Kazuo Shimura	Japan	Fall	[217]
8 June 1982	Peter Hiltbrand	Switzerland	Altitude sickness	[217]
12 June 1982	Ali Sheikh	Pakistan	Fall	[217]
4 June 1982	Peter Forrer	Switzerland	Avalanche	[217]
28 April 1982	Matloob Hassan Nuri	Pakistan	Fall into crevasse	[218]
31 July 1977	Robert Broughton	United States	Avalanche	[217]
	George Bogel			[217]
26 September 1976	Sebastian (Wastl) Arnold	Austria	Fall	[217]
8 July 1971	Näbi Mantas Hunza	Pakistan	Fall	[217]
29 June 1970	Günther Messner	Italy	Avalanche	[217][219]
23 June 1962	Siegfried Löw [fr]	West Germany	Fall	[217]
4 December 1950	John W. Thornley	United Kingdom	Unknown	[218]
	William H. Crace			[218]
14 / 15 June 1937	Karl Wien [ru]	Nazi Germany	Avalanche, 1937 Nanga Parbat tragedy [de]	[217]
	Martin Pfeffer
	Peter Müllritter [de]
	Günther Hepp
	Hans Hartmann
	Adolf Göttner
	Pert Fankhauser	Austria
	Tigmay	British Raj
	Pasang Norbu
	Nima Tsering I
	Nima Tsering II
	Mingma Tsering
	Karmi
	Gyalgen Monjo
	Chong Karma
	Ang Tshering II
17 July 1934	Willy Merkl	Nazi Germany	Unknown	[217]
17 July 1934	Sherpa Gyali	British Raj	Unknown	[217]
12 July 1934	Wilhelm Welzenbach [ru]	Nazi Germany	Exposure	[217]
10 July 1934	Sherpa Dakshi	British Raj	Unknown	[217]
10 July 1934	Dorje Nima	British Raj	Exposure	[217]
10 July 1934	Nima Tashi	British Raj	Exposure	[217]
10 July 1934	Pinju Norbu	British Raj	Exposure	[217]
9 July 1934	Nima Nurbu	British Raj	Unknown	[217]
9 July 1934	Ulrich Wieland [de]	Nazi Germany	Unknown	[217]
8 June 1934	Alfred Drexel [de]	Nazi Germany	Pneumonia, HACE	[217][218]
24 August 1895	Albert F. Mummery	United Kingdom	Avalanche	[217]
	Ragobir Thapa Ghurka	Nepal		[217]
	Goman Singh Ghurka			[217]

Annapurna I

Photograph of Annapurna South from Annapurna base camp (4,130 m) before sunrise.

Anatoli Boukreev Memorial (1997) and Ian Clough (1970) memorials at the Annapurna Base Camp, Nepal.

Annapurna I is the world's 10th highest mountain. It is known for being an extremely difficult climb, with 75 deaths on its slopes as of April 2025.^[220]

List of deaths on Annapurna I

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
8 April 2025	Rima Rinje Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[220][221]
8 April 2025	Ngima Tashi Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[220]
18 April 2023	Noel Hanna	United Kingdom	Exposure	[222]
3 May 2019	Wui Kin Chin	Malaysia	Hypothermia/Frostbite	[93]
24 March 2015	Samuli Mansikka	Finland	Fall	[223]
24 March 2015	Pemba Sherpa	Nepal	Fall	[223]
7 October 2012	Ivan Lobanov	Uzbekistan	Avalanche	[224]
7 October 2012	Iljas Tukhvatullin	Uzbekistan	Avalanche	[224]
5 May 2012	Tibor Horváth	Hungary	Avalanche	[225]
18 October 2011	Young-seok Park	South Korea	Unknown	[108][226][227]
18 October 2011	Dong-min Shin	South Korea	Unknown	[108][226][227]
18 October 2011	Ki-seok Kang	South Korea	Unknown	[108][226][227]
29 April 2010	Tolo Calafat	Spain	Exhaustion, HACE	[228][229]
April 2009	Martin Minařík	Czech Republic	Fell into Crevasse	[230]
23 May 2008	Iñaki Ochoa de Olza	Spain	HACE	[231]
22 April 2007	Udhav Prasad Khanal	Nepal	Unknown	[232]
22 October 2006	Lhakpa Rita II	Nepal	Avalanche	[233]
18 May 2005	Christian Kuntner	Italy	Avalanche	[234]
10 October 2004	Hideji Nazuka	Japan	Avalanche	[235]
10 October 2004	Michio Sato	Japan	Avalanche	[235]
29 April 1999	Hyun-ok Ji	South Korea	Unknown	[236]
29 April 1999	Dorje Kami	Nepal	Unknown	[232]
26 April 1998	Ang Tshering	Nepal	Avalanche	[232][237]
25 December 1997	Anatoli Boukreev	Kazakhstan	Avalanche	[232][237]
25 December 1997	Dmitri Sobolev	Kazakhstan	Avalanche	[232][237]
23 March 1997	Ngati	Nepal	Fall	[232][237]
11 October 1992	Pierre Béghin (fr)	France	Fall	[237][238]
20 October 1991	Gabriel Denamur	Belgium	Unknown	[232][237]
19 September 1991	Seog-jee Lee	South Korea	Avalanche	[237]
19 September 1991	Song-gu Lee	South Korea	Avalanche	[237]
19 September 1991	Sange Dawa	Nepal	Avalanche	[232][237]
19 September 1991	Tendi Lhakpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[232][237]
19 September 1991	Jangbu Nurbu	Nepal	Avalanche	[232][237]
19 September 1991	Tenzing	Nepal	Avalanche	[232][237]
28 October 1989	Milan Metkov	Bulgaria	Unknown	[232]
28 October 1989	Ognian Stoykov	Bulgaria	Unknown	[232]
18 October 1988	Ramiro Navarrete	Ecuador	Fall	[239]
1 October 1988	Jiri Pelikan	Czechoslovakia	Fall on descent	[232]
29 September 1988	Akihiro Mori	Japan	Avalanche	[237]
29 September 1988	Ang Dawa	Japan	Avalanche	[232][237]
20 December 1987	Toshiyuki Kobayashi	Japan	Fall	[232]
20 December 1987	Yasuhira Saito	Japan	Fall	[232]
24 May 1987	Andres Ferrer	Spain	Fall	[232]
23 September 1986	Benoit Grison	France	Fall	[232]
7 December 1984	Pasang Norbu	Nepal	Unknown	[232]
7 December 1984	Keepa	Nepal	Unknown	[232]
21 April 1984	Philippe Dumas	France	Avalanche	[232]
21 April 1984	Patrick Taglianut	France	Avalanche	[232]
24 September 1983	Yang-kun Chung	South Korea	Avalanche	[237]
24 September 1983	Magar Maila	Nepal	Avalanche	[232][237]
24 September 1983	Rama Magar Tika	Nepal	Avalanche	[232][237]
18 October 1982	Susumu Akimatsu	Japan	Avalanche	[232]
18 October 1982	Miko Ono	Japan	Avalanche	[232]
17 October 1982	Alex MacIntyre	United Kingdom	Rock fall	[232][238]
12 May 1982	Rai Shanti	Nepal	Fall	[232]
4 May 1982	Werner Bürkli	Switzerland	Heart attack	[232]
31 October 1981	Yasuji Kato	Japan	Fall	[232]
28 September 1981	Andre Durieux	France	Avalanche	[232]
28 September 1981	Yves Favre	France	Avalanche	[232]
27 September 1981	Ang Nima	Nepal	Avalanche	[232]
27 September 1981	Pemba Tshering	Nepal	Avalanche	[232]
19 September 1979	Eric Roberts	United Kingdom	Avalanche	[232]
19 September 1979	Maynard Cohick	United States	Avalanche	[232]
19 September 1979	Gil Harder	United States	Avalanche	[232]
1 May 1979	Yves Morin	France	Exhaustion	[232]
17 October 1978	Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz	United Kingdom	Fall	[240]
17 October 1978	Vera Watson	United States	Fall	[240]
16 April 1975	Franz Tegischer	Austria	Avalanche	[232]
26 September 1973	Leo Cerruti	Italy	Avalanche	[232]
26 September 1973	Miller Rava	Italy	Avalanche	[232]
18 May 1973	Tadashi Ushigoe	Japan	Avalanche	[232]
18 May 1973	Sadatoshi Takahashi	Japan	Avalanche	[232]
18 May 1973	Masanori Hama	Japan	Avalanche	[232]
18 May 1973	Kazumi Katagiri	Japan	Avalanche	[232]
18 May 1973	Rinje	Nepal	Avalanche	[232]
30 May 1970	Ian Clough	United Kingdom	Serac fall	[232]

Gasherbrum I

Western vantage of the Gasherbrum group of mountains

Gasherbrum I, also known as Hidden Peak or K5, is the world's 11th highest mountain.

List of deaths on Gasherbrum I

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
8 August 2013	Zdeněk Hrubý	Czech Republic	Fall	[241]
22 July 2013	Xevi Gómez	Spain	Disappeared	[242]
22 July 2013	Álvaro Paredes	Spain	Disappeared	[242]
22 July 2013	Abel Alonso	Spain	Disappeared	[242]
7 July 2013	Artur Hajzer	Poland	Fall	[243][244]
9 March 2012	Gerfried Göschl	Austria	Disappeared	[245]
9 March 2012	Cedric Hählen	Switzerland	Disappeared	[245][246]
9 March 2012	Nisar Hussain Sadpara	Pakistan	Disappeared	[245][246]
18 June 2008	Jean-Noël Urban	France	Fall into crevasse	[247][248][249]
29 July 2007	Jiri Danek	Czech Republic	Fall	[248][249][250]
5 August 2005	Dawa Nurbu II	Nepal	Fall	[248][249]
25 July 2004	Jose Antonio Anton	Spain	Fall	[248][249]
7 September 2003	Mohammad Oraz	Iran	Avalanche caused injuries, died in hospital	[248][249][251]
15 July 2003	Vladimir Pestrikov	Ukraine	Stone fall	[248][249]
5 July 2003	Jose Manuel Buenaga	Spain	Disappeared	[248][249]
5 July 2003	Nancy Silvestrini	Argentina	Disappeared	[248][249]
9 July 2001	Claudio Gálvez Santibañez	Chile	Fall, after successfully summiting	[248][249][252][253]
1 August 1998	Yoshiumi Hayoshida	Japan	Avalanche	[248][249]
1 August 1998	Kasunori Kutama	Japan	Avalanche	[248][249]
1 August 1998	Kasutoshi Naito	Japan	Avalanche	[248][249]
1 August 1998	Takashi Watanabe	Japan	Avalanche	[248][249]
17 July 1996	Manuel Alvarez	Spain	Fall (between Camp III and Camp II)	[248][249]
30 May 1993	Paolo Bernascone	Italy	Slab avalanche (below Camp I)	[248][249]
19 August 1990	Josep Granyo	Spain	Disappeared	[248][249]
19 August 1990	Albert Ibanez	Spain	Disappeared	[248][249]
12 July 1989	Dorje Tsindi	Nepal	Fall	[248][249]
25 June 1988	Jorge Luis Brito	Mexico	Pulmonary edema	[248][249]
29 July 1987	Mohsin Ali	Pakistan	Avalanche	[citation needed]
29 July 1987	Fakhar-ul-Islam	Pakistan	Avalanche	[citation needed]
29 July 1987	Fayyaz Hussain	Pakistan	Avalanche	[citation needed]
29 July 1987	Khalid Khan	Pakistan	Avalanche	[248][249]
18 August 1986	Andreas Bührer	Switzerland	Fall	[248][249]
31 May 1986	Muhammad Ali Ghulam	Pakistan	Pneumonia	[248][249]
9–10 June 1977	Drago Bregar	Yugoslavia	Disappeared	[34][248][249]

Broad Peak

Broad Peak summit.

Broad Peak is the world's 12th highest mountain.

List of deaths on Broad Peak

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
11 August 2024	Murad Sadpara	Pakistan	Hit by falling rock	[254]
19 July 2022	Gordon Henderson	United Kingdom	Fall	[255]
5 July 2022	Sharif Sadpara	Pakistan	Fall	[256]
5 July 2022	Imran Karim	Pakistan	Fall	[257]
19 July 2021	Kim Hong-bin	South Korea	Fall	[258][259][260]
July 2015	Qamber Ali Jangjupa	Pakistan	Avalanche	[261]
23 July 2013	Aidin Bozorgi	Iran	Disappeared	[262]
23 July 2013	Mojtaba Jarrahi [fa]	Iran	Disappeared	[262]
23 July 2013	Pouya Keivan [fa]	Iran	Disappeared	[262]
8 July 2013	Dana Heide	Germany	Slipped into a glacial stream near base camp	[263]
6 March 2013	Maciej Berbeka	Poland	Disappeared	[264]
6 March 2013	Tomasz Kowalski	Poland	Presumably exhaustion	[264]
31 July 2012	Muhammad Baqir	Pakistan	Fall	[265]
31 July 2012	Zuzana Hofmannová	Czech Republic	Disappeared	[266]
25 July 2011	Jeffrey Wai Hung Chung	Hong Kong	Fall in crevasse	[267] [268] [269] [270] [271] [272]
18 July 2009	Cristina Castagna	Italy	Fall	[273]
30 June 2008	Vladimir Plulik	Slovakia	Fall	[274][275]
8 July 2006	Markus Kronthaler	Austria	Exhaustion	[276]
11 July 1999	Seung-Kwon Hur	South Korea	Disappeared	[274]
29 July 1998	Pascale Bessieres	France	Disappeared	[274]
29 July 1998	Éric Escoffier [fr]	France	Disappeared	[274]
16 July 1997	Jeffrey Ian Bubb	United States	Avalanche	[274]
16 July 1997	Fukuzo Yokotagawa	Japan	Avalanche	[274]
20 July 1996	Dong-keun Han	South Korea	Died on descent due to bad weather	[274]
20 July 1996	Jae-mo Yang	South Korea	Died on descent due to bad weather	[274]
20 July 1996	Sun-taek Lim	South Korea	Died on descent due to bad weather	[274]
12 July 1995	Hyun-jae Park	South Korea	Fall	[274]
22 June 1994	Alexej Himer	Czech Republic	Fall	[274]
11 June 1994	Bohuslav Bilek	Czech Republic	Pulmonary edema	[274]
24 July 1990	Kurt Lyncke-Krüger	West Germany	Fall	[274]
20 August 1988	Yong-il Jang	South Korea	Avalanche	[274]
22 August 1986	Liam Scott Elliott	United Kingdom	Fell	[274]
18 August 1985	Barbara Kozłowska	Poland	Drowned in a glacier stream above BC	[274]
16 May 1985	Hans Frick	Canada	Avalanche	[274]
29 June 1983	Peter Thexton	United Kingdom	Pulmonary edema	[274]
5 August 1981	Enric Pujol	Spain	Fall	[274]
29 July 1975	Andrzej Sikorski	Poland	Fall	[274]
29 July 1975	Marek Kęsicki	Poland	Fall	[274]
28 July 1975	Bohdan Nowaczyk	Poland	Fall	[274]

Gasherbrum II

Left to right: Gasherbrum III, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum II East

Gasherbrum II, also known as K4, is the world's 13th highest mountain.

List of deaths on Gasherbrum II

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
5 July 2022	Iram Karim	Pakistan	Slipped into a glacial stream near base camp	[277]
25 July 2015	Aleksander Ostrowski	Poland	Avalanche (presumed)	[278]
22 July 2011	Leila Esfandyari	Iran	Fall on descent	[279]
21 July 2009	Luis María Barbero	Spain	Disappeared	[280][281]
18 July 2007	Ernst-Robert Zauner	Germany	Avalanche	[250][281]
18 July 2007	Arne Heckele	Germany	Avalanche	[250][281]
3 July 2007	Ulrike Gschwandtner	Austria	Possibly Heart Failure	[282]
20 July 2001	Jean-François Bassine	Belgium	Fall	[280][281]
28 July 2000	Félix Iñurrategi [fr]	Spain	Fall	[281][283]
13 July 1989	Antton Ibarguren	Spain	Fall	[280][281]
9 July 1988	Gary Silver	United States	Illness	[280][281]
6 July 1988	Michel Basson	France	Pulmonary Edema	[280][281]
25 June 1988	Henri Albet	France	Fall on snowboard	[280][281]
29 June 1987	Jean-Pierre Hefti	Switzerland	Fall	[280][281]
12 July 1986	Carlos Rábago	Spain	Altitude sickness	[280][281][284]
11 July 1985	Pierre Bouygues	France	Illness	[280][281]
24 June 1985	Toru Nakano	Japan	Fall	[280][281]
mid July 1982	Norbert Wolf	Austria	Cold	[280][281]
mid July 1982	Gerhard Gruner	West Germany	Disappeared	[280][281]
2 July 1982	Glenn Brindeiro	United States	Avalanche	[280][281]
1 June 1976	Osamu Matsuura	Japan	Exhaustion	[280][281]
27 May 1976	Yoshinori Hiramatsu	Japan	Fall	[280][281]
27 May 1976	Taketoshi Miyamoto	Japan	Fall	[280][281]
late June 1975	Bernard Villaret	France	Cold, exhaustion	[280][281]

Shishapangma

The summit of Shishapangma (far left).

Shishapangma, also called Gosainthān, is the world's 14th highest mountain.

List of deaths on Shishapangma

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of death	References
7 October 2023	Tenjen Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[285]
7 October 2023	Gina Marie Rzucidlo	United States	Avalanche	[286]
7 October 2023	Anna Gutu	United States	Avalanche	[286]
7 October 2023	Mingmar Sherpa	Nepal	Avalanche	[286]
3 May 2018	Boyan Petrov	Bulgaria	Disappearance	[287]
30 Sept 2016	Pemba Sherpa (Taplejung 8)	Nepal	Avalanche	[288][289]
24 April 2016	Patrik Matiolli	Switzerland	Fall in crevasse	[290]
24 April 2016	Jon David Johnston	Austria	Fall in crevasse	[290][291][292]
24 September 2014	Sebastian Haag	Germany	Avalanche	[293]
24 September 2014	Andrea Zambaldi	Italy	Avalanche	[293]
11 May 2013	Unknown	Germany	HACE	[294]
15 October 2009	Roberto Piantoni [it]	Italy	Fall	[295][296]
24 April 2007	Marek Hudák	Slovakia	Disappearance	[295][297]
31 October 2006	Bruno Carvalho	Portugal	Fall	[295][298]
3 October 2005	Stanislav Krylov	Russia	Disappearance	[295][298]
28 September 2005	Martin Oczko	Czech Republic	Altitude sickness	[295][298]
5 October 1999	Alex Lowe	United States	Avalanche	[295][298]
5 October 1999	David Bridges	United States	Avalanche	[295][298]
21 May 1998	Andreino Pasini	Italy	Illness	[295][298]
5 October 1996	Viktor Pastukh [uk]	Ukraine	Avalanche	[295][298]
5 October 1996	Gennadi Vasilenko	Ukraine	Avalanche	[295][298]
19 May 1996 or 1997	Ming-Tse Kuo	Taiwan	Fall	[295][298] Discrepancy regarding the year of death between different sources
1 May 1996	Stefan Sluka [sk]	Slovakia	Disappeared on descent	[295][298]
1 October 1994	Zdenek Slachta	Czech Republic	Avalanche	[295][298]
18 September 1994	Tod Gassen	United States	Fall in crevasse	[295][298]
29 September 1993	Bueoung-tae Park	South Korea	Fall	[295][298]
20 September 1991	Hidekazu Gomi	Japan	Avalanche	[295][298]
20 September 1991	Tetsuichi Miyashita	Japan	Avalanche	[295][298]
22 May 1991	Werner Braun	Germany	Disappearance (probably avalanche)	[295][298]
22 May 1991	Werner Meichsner	Germany	Disappearance (probably avalanche)	[295][298]
22 May 1991	Günther Semmler	Germany	Disappearance (probably avalanche)	[295][298]
22 May 1991	Karl-Heinz Thiele	Germany	Disappearance (probably avalanche)	[295][298]
15 October 1990	Joan Martinez	Spain	Exposure	[295][298]
4 October 1989	Luca Leonardi	Switzerland	Avalanche	[295][298]
28 April 1983	Fritz Luchsinger	Switzerland	Altitude sickness	[295][298]

Deaths per mountain

Mountain	Number of deaths
Everest	332[1]
K2	84[299]
Nanga Parbat	83[299]
Manaslu	90[1]
Dhaulagiri I	85[299]
Annapurna I	75[299]
Kangchenjunga	53[1]
Cho Oyu	52
Makalu	48[299]
Gasherbrum I	41 ---- 34
Broad Peak	37
Shishapangma	31 ---- 35
Lhotse	33
Gasherbrum II	23 --- 24
Total	1,098

See also

• The Himalayan Database
• 1986 K2 disaster
• List of Mount Everest death statistics
• List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
• Lists of people by cause of death
• Mount Hood climbing accidents

• mountains portal

Bibliography

• Liam Neeson, Lhakpa Dorji, and Dorje Sherpa (1998). Everest (Documentary Film). Nepal, Colorado: Arcturus Motion Pictures, MacGillivray Freeman Films, Polartec.

Notes

1. The climbers went missing on October 6th, and their bodies were found on the 8th. The precise date of death is unknown.
2. The last communication with these two climbers was made of February 24th, their bodies were discovered on March 7th and identified on March 9th. The precise date of death is unknown
3. USA/China dual national