List of people who died climbing Mount Everest

Over 340 people have died attempting to reach—or return from—the summit of Mount Everest which, at 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8+1⁄2 in), is Earth's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This makes it the mountain with the most deaths, although it does not have the highest death rate. The most recent years without known deaths on the mountain are 1977, in which only two people reached the summit, and 2020, when permits were suspended by Nepal because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1][2][3]

North face of Mount Everest

Deaths have been attributed to avalanches, falls, serac collapse, exposure, frostbite, or health problems related to conditions on the mountain. Not all bodies have been located, so details on those deaths are not available.

Deaths Per Year on Mount Everest 1921-2024. Noting Sherpa and Non-Sherpa deaths.

The upper reaches of the mountain are in the death zone, a mountaineering term for altitudes above a certain point – around 8,000 m (26,000 ft), or less than 356 millibars (5.16 psi) of atmospheric pressure – where the oxygen pressure level is not sufficient to sustain human life.^[4] Many deaths in high-altitude mountaineering have been caused by the effects of the death zone, either directly (loss of vital functions) or indirectly (unwise decisions made under stress or physical weakening leading to accidents). In the death zone, the human body cannot acclimatize, as it uses oxygen faster than it can be replenished. An extended stay in the zone without supplementary oxygen will result in deterioration of bodily functions, loss of consciousness, and death.^[5][6][7]

Background

Routes to Mount Everest's summit from the north (yellow) and south (orange)

During the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, two people died en route to the mountain: an unidentified porter and heart attack victim A. M. Kellas.^[8][9] The first recorded deaths on the mountain itself were seven porters who perished in an avalanche in the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition.

In 1996, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, the most in a single year to that date. The number reflects the large number of climbers that year rather than a spike in the death rate: before 1996, one in four climbers died making the ascent, while in 1996, one in seven died.^[10] But it also includes the 1996 Mount Everest disaster on May 11, 1996, during which eight people died due to being caught in a blizzard while making summit attempts. Among them was guide Rob Hall, the first non-Sherpa to have summitted five times. Two books detailing the disaster, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev, both written by mountaineers who were on Mount Everest at the time, give conflicting accounts of the events.

The 1996 record was surpassed in the 2014, 2015 and 2023 seasons. There were few summits from the south in 2014 and none in 2015. On April 18, 2014, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall.^[11][12][13] On April 25, 2015, 19 people—the most ever in a single day on Everest—were killed in an avalanche at base camp after a 7.8 earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal.^{[14][15][16][17]} During the 2023 season, a total of 17 climbers died to and from the summit. Almost none of the deaths are related to one another.

In 2001, Babu Chiri Sherpa died from a fall near Camp II. He had climbed the mountain 10 times and spent 20 hours on the summit of Everest in 1999, then a new record.^[18] He also climbed to the summit twice in two weeks and held the record climbing time from base camp to summit of 16 hours and 56 minutes.^[18]

In 2019, 11 people died on Everest during a record season with a huge number of climbers. Videos shared on social media showed climbers waiting in long queues to advance up the mountain.^[19]

Due to the difficulties and dangers in bringing bodies down, most who die on the mountain remain where they fall. Two Nepalese climbers died on October 24, 1984, while trying to recover the body of Hannelore Schmatz.^[20] In 1999, searchers for George Mallory's body found his and other bodies in the snow in a catchment basin near the peak.^{[21][note 1]}

Melting glaciers are revealing bodies on Everest. The Nepalese government does clean-up efforts to remove trash left by climbers, and also recovers bodies along with these efforts. Four unidentified bodies were recovered in 2019.^[23] Another five unidentified bodies were recovered in 2024.^[24]

Deaths

Information on 343 of the people who died climbing Mount Everest are listed in the table below.

Name	Date	Age	Expedition	Nationality	Cause of death	Location	Remains status	Refs
Alexander Mitchell Kellas	June 5, 1921	52	1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition	United Kingdom	Heart attack	En route to base camp near the Tibetan village of Kampa Dzong	Recovered, buried near Kampa Dzong	[8][25]
Unknown porter	June 5, 1921					En route to base camp near the Tibetan village of Kampa Dzong		[9]
Dorje	June 7, 1922		1922 British Mount Everest expedition	Nepal	Avalanche	Below North Col		[8]
Lhakpa	June 7, 1922			Nepal	Avalanche	Below North Col		[8]
Norbu	June 7, 1922			Nepal	Avalanche	Below North Col		[8]
Pasang	June 7, 1922			Nepal	Avalanche	Below North Col		[8]
Pema	June 7, 1922			Nepal	Avalanche	Below North Col		[8]
Sange	June 7, 1922			Nepal	Avalanche	Below North Col		[8]
Temba	June 7, 1922			Nepal	Avalanche	Below North Col		[8]
Man Bahadur	May 13, 1924		1924 British Mount Everest expedition	Nepal	Pneumonia	Above Rongbuk B.C.		[8][26]
Lance-Naik Shamsherpun	May 17, 1924			Nepal	Brain hemorrhage	Above Rongbuk B.C.		[8][26]
Andrew Irvine	June 9, 1924	22		United Kingdom	Unknown.	N.E. Ridge	Remains found (partial) in 2024	[8][27]
George Mallory	June 9, 1924	37		United Kingdom	Possible ice axe injury following a fall.	N.E. Ridge	Remains found and buried in situ in 1999	[8][28]
Maurice Wilson	May 31, 1934[note 2]	36	Solo Expedition	United Kingdom	Possible exhaustion, exposure or starvation.	East Rongbuk Glacier	Remains found in 1935	[29]
Dorje Mingma	October 31, 1952		Swiss Expedition	Nepal	Falling ice	Lhotse Face		[30]
Wang Ji	April 11, 1960		Chinese Expedition Northern Slope	China	Mountain sickness			[31][32]
Shao Shi-Ching [note 3]	April 29, 1960			China		N.E. Ridge		[31][32]
Nawang Tshering	April 28, 1962			Nepal		Lhotse face		[33]
Jake Breitenbach	March 23, 1963	27	Norman Dyhrenfurth's American Mount Everest Expedition	United States	Crushed under serac	Icefall		[34][35][36]
Ma Gao-shu	May 1, 1966		Chinese Everest Expedition	China	Fall	Icefall		[32][37]
Phu Dorjee Sherpa	October 18, 1969		Japanese Everest Expedition	Nepal	Fall into a crevasse	Icefall		[38]
Nima Dorje	April 5, 1970		Japanese Skiing Expedition	Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[39]
Kunga Norbu	April 5, 1970			Nepal	Avalanche			[39]
Mima Norbu	April 5, 1970			Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[39]
Pasang	April 5, 1970			Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[39]
Kami Tshering	April 5, 1970			Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[39]
Kyak Tsering	April 9, 1970	36		Nepal	Crushed under serac	5525 m		[40]
Kiyoshi Narita	April 21, 1970			Japan	Heart attack	6150m		[41]
Harsh Vardhan	April 18, 1971	31	International Expedition of 1971	India	Succumbed after falling and being suspended above a crevasse during a blizzard	6900m		[37]
Tony Tighe	November 16, 1972		Mt. Qomolangma expedition	Australia	Crushed under serac	Icefall		[42][43]
Jangbu	October 12, 1973			Nepal	Avalanche	S.W. Face		[44]
Gérard Devouassoux	September 9, 1974	34	1974 French Mount Everest expedition	France	Avalanche	6400m		[45]
Pemba Dorje	September 9, 1974			Nepal	Avalanche	6400m		[45]
Lhakpa	September 9, 1974			Nepal	Avalanche	6400m		[45]
Nawang Lutuk	September 9, 1974			Nepal	Avalanche	6400m		[45]
Nima Wangchu	September 9, 1974			Nepal	Avalanche	6400m		[45]
Sanu Wongal	September 9, 1974			Nepal	Avalanche	6400m		[45]
Wu Zhuong Yue [note 4]	May 4, 1975			China	Exhaustion, fall	8500m		[46]
Mingma ; deaf-mute Sherpa porter	August 1975	"Young"	1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition	Nepal	Drowned	Below Base Camp		[47]
Mick Burke	September 26, 1975	34	Bonington's 1975 Everest expedition	United Kingdom	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	Near Summit		[48][49]
Terry Thompson	April 10, 1976		British-Nepal Army Everest Expedition	United Kingdom	Fall into a crevasse	Camp II		[37]
Dawa Nuru	April 18, 1978			Nepal	Fall into a crevasse	Icefall		[37]
Shi Ming-ji	April 18, 1978		Chinese Iranian Expedition	China	Fall into a crevasse	Icefall		[37]
Ang Phu	May 16, 1979		1979 Yugoslav West Ridge expedition	Nepal	Fall	Icefall		[37]
Ray Genet	October 2, 1979	48	Gerhard Schmatz German Expedition or 1979 Swabian expedition	United States	Exposure and/or exhaustion	8400m S.E. Ridge		[50]
Hannelore Schmatz	October 2, 1979	39		West Germany	Exposure and/or exhaustion	8400m S.E. Ridge	Remains found, body removal was attempted but resulted in death for two sherpas	[28][50]
Wang Hong-bao	October 12, 1979		Japanese Alpine Club reconnaissance expedition	China	Avalanche	Below North Col		[51]
Lou Lan [note 5]	October 12, 1979			China	Avalanche	Below North Col		[51]
Nima Thaxi [note 6]	October 12, 1979			China	Avalanche	Below North Col		[51]
Akira Ube	May 2, 1980	31	Japanese Alpine Society expedition	Japan	Avalanche	7900m North Face (Hornbein Couloir)		[52]
Nawang Kersang	September 6, 1980		Italian expedition	Nepal	Fall	Icefall		[53]
Mario Piana	September 22, 1980			Italy	Crushed under serac	Lhotse Face		[54]
Noboru Takenaka	January 12, 1981	28	Japanese winter expedition	Japan	Fall	6900m W. Cwm		[55]
Marty Hoey	May 15, 1982	30	Whittaker American expedition	United States	Fall	8000m		[56]
Peter Boardman	May 17, 1982	31	British Mount Everest expedition	United Kingdom	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	North-East Ridge (approx. 8200m)		[38][57]
Joe Tasker	May 17, 1982	33		United Kingdom	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	North-East Ridge (approx. 8200m)		[57][58]
Ang Chuldim	August 31, 1982	20	Bill March Canadian expedition	Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[59]
Dawa Dorje	August 31, 1982	42		Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[59]
Pasang Sona	August 31, 1982	38		Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[59]
Blair Griffiths	September 2, 1982	33		Canada	Crushed under serac	Icefall		[60]
Lhakpa Tshering	September 27, 1982		Spanish expedition	Nepal	Internal hemorrhage	6770m		[46]
Nima Dorje	October 14, 1982			Nepal	Fall	8300m W ridge		[61]
Yasuo Kato	December 28, 1982	33	Japanese expedition	Japan	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	Near Summit		[38][58]
Toshiaki Kobayashi	December 28, 1982			Japan		Near Summit		[58]
Hironobu Kamuro	October 8, 1983		Japanese expedition	Japan	Fall	Near Summit		[38]
Pasang Temba	October 8, 1983			Nepal	Fall	8600m SE Ridge		[38][46]
Hiroshi Yoshino	October 9, 1983			Japan	Fall	Near Summit		[38]
Ang Rinji	March 26, 1984		Indian expedition	Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[46]
Tony Swierzy	April 3, 1984	27	Micheal Lane British North Face expedition	United Kingdom	Avalanche	6238m		[62]
Hristo Ivanov Prodanov	April 21, 1984	40	Bulgarian West Face expedition	Bulgaria	Disappearance (likely accidental death during descent)	8500m West Ridge		[38]
William (Fred) From	October 9, 1984	28	Australian-New Zealand expedition	Australia	Fall, while searching for Craig Nottle	8000m		[63][64][65][66]
Craig Nottle	October 9, 1984	23		Australia	Fall	8000m		[63][64][65]
Jozef Psotka	October 16, 1984	50		Czechoslovakia	Fall	Near Summit	Not recovered	[38]
Ang Dorje	October 24, 1984	35	Mission to recover body of Hannelore Schmatz	Nepal	Fall	8400m S.E. Ridge		[20]
Yogendra Bahadur Thapa	October 24, 1984	36		Nepal	Fall	8400m S.E. Ridge		[20]
Juanjo Navarro	May 12, 1985		Navarrese expedition	Spain	Fall	7300m		[67][68]
Shinichi Ishii	September 19, 1985		Japanese expedition	Japan	Avalanche	Below North Col		[67]
Kiran Inder Kumar	October 7, 1985	40	Indian expedition	India	Fall	7986m		[69]
Jai Vardhan Bahugana	October 11, 1985			India	Exposure	South Col		[70]
Ranjeet Singh Bakshi	October 11, 1985			India	Exposure	South Col		[70]
Vijay Pal Singh Negi	October 11, 1985	28		India	Exposure	South Col		[69][70]
M.U. Bhaskar Rao	October 11, 1985			India	Exposure	South Col		[70]
Víctor Hugo Trujillo	August 16, 1986	22		Chile	Avalanche	Below North Col		[71]
Simon Burkhardt	September 28, 1986	52	Eiselin Sports expedition	Switzerland	Avalanche	7315m		[72]
Gyalu	October 4, 1986			Nepal	Crushed under serac	Icefall		[72]
Dawa Norbu	October 17, 1986			Nepal	Avalanche	Below North Col		[38]
Tsuttin Dorje	January 30, 1987			Nepal	Fall	7700m		[73]
Roger Marshall	May 21, 1987	45		Canada	Disappearance (likely accidental death during descent)	Hornbein Couloir, Near Summit		[74]
Masao Yokoyama	September 2, 1987	44	Japanese expedition	Japan	Drowned	East Rongbuk Glacier		[75][76]
Mangal Singh	October 20, 1987		British expedition	Nepal	Avalanche	Base camp		[46]
Hidetaka Mizukoshi	April 21, 1988		35th Anniversary climb with Chinese, Japanese and Nepalese nationals	Japan	Heart attack	Base camp		[77]
Michel Parmentier	September 20, 1988		International [clarification needed]	France	Exposure	7700m		[67]
Narayan Shrestha	September 21, 1988			Nepal	Avalanche	7200m		[78]
Lhakpa Sonam	October 13, 1988			Nepal	Fall	8200m		[38]
Pasang Temba	October 13, 1988			Nepal	Fall	8200m		[38]
Dušan Becík	October 17, 1988	34	IAMES Bratislava Expedition	Czechoslovakia	Disappearance (likely accidental death during descent after reaching South Summit)	8000m S.W. Ridge		[79][80][81]
Peter Božík	October 17, 1988	34		Czechoslovakia		8000m S.W. Ridge		[79][80][81]
Jaroslav Jaško	October 17, 1988	26		Czechoslovakia		8000m S.W. Ridge		[79][80][81]
Jozef Just	October 17, 1988	33		Czechoslovakia		8000m S.W. Ridge		[38][79][80]
Ang Lhakpa	December 23, 1988			Nepal	Cerebral thrombosis	South Col		[38]
Dimitar Ilievski-Murato	May 10, 1989	35		Yugoslavia	Fall	Descending South Col Route		[38]
Phu Dorje	May 16, 1989			Nepal	Fall	Descending South Col Route		[38]
Mirosław Dąsal	May 27, 1989	37	Polish-led expedition that included four U.S. mountaineers	Poland	Avalanche	7200m W ridge		[82]
Mirosław Gardzielewski	May 27, 1989	37		Poland	Avalanche	7200m W ridge		[82]
Andrzej Heinrich	May 27, 1989	51		Poland	Avalanche	7200m W ridge		[82]
Wacław Otręba	May 27, 1989	42		Poland	Avalanche	7200m W ridge		[82]
Eugeniusz Chrobak	May 28, 1989	50		Poland	Avalanche injuries	Lhola camp		[38][82]
Ang Pinjo	December 12, 1989		South Korean expedition	Nepal	Altitude sickness, heart attack			[37]
Rafael Gómez-Menor	September 14, 1990			Spain	Avalanche			[83]
Ang Sona	September 14, 1990			Nepal	Avalanche			[83]
Badri Nath	September 14, 1990			Nepal	Avalanche			[83]
Ham Sang-hun	October 7, 1990		Japanese-Korean expedition	South Korea	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)			[84]
Rüdiger Lang	May 3, 1991		Austrian solo expedition	Germany	Exposure	7850m N.E. Ridge		[46][85]
Junichi Futagami	May 27, 1991		Japanese solo expedition	Japan	Fall	8700m NE		[37]
Deepak Kulkarni	May 2, 1992		Indian expedition	India	Exposure			[37]
Raymond Jacob	May 2, 1992			India	Exposure			[37]
Subba Singh	May 11, 1992	43		Nepal	Heart attack			[86]
Sher Singh	May 23, 1992		Indian expedition	India	Fall	Icefall		[37]
Manabu Hoshi	May 23, 1992		Japanese expedition	Japan	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	8350m NE		[87]
Ang Tshering	January 15, 1993		Spanish expedition	Nepal	Fall			[37]
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa	April 23, 1993	32	Nepalese expedition	Nepal	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	8750m S.E. Ridge		[88]
Sonam Tshering	April 23, 1993			Nepal		8750m S.E. Ridge		[88]
Lobsang Tshering Bhutia	May 10, 1993	41	40th anniversary of Tenzing Norgay's climb	Nepal	Fall	8750m S.E. Ridge		[89]
Nam Won-woo	May 16, 1993		South Korean expedition	South Korea	Fall	8450m S.E. Ridge		[37][90]
A Jin-seob	May 17, 1993			South Korea	Fall	8450m S.E. Ridge		[37][90]
Karl Henize	October 5, 1993	66	American expedition	United States	HAPE (high-altitude pulmonary edema)	6400m	Recovered, buried near the Changtse Glacier	[91]
Antonio Miranda	October 7, 1993			Spain	Fall			[92]
Prem Thapa	April 6, 1994		German expedition	Nepal	Cerebral edema			[37]
Shih Fang-Fang 'Norman'	May 9, 1994	27	Taiwanese expedition	Taiwan	Exhaustion and/or exposure			[37]
Giuseppe Vigani	May 18, 1994	43	Italian expedition	Italy	Fall	North Face		[37]
Mike Rheinberger	May 27, 1994	53	Australian expedition	Australia	Fall	8500m NE		[37]
Mingma Norbu	September 12, 1994		Norwegian expedition	Nepal	Avalanche			[37]
Kami Rita	May 6, 1995		American expedition	Nepal	Fall			[37]
Lhakpa Nuru	September 10, 1995		South Korean Expedition	Nepal		6900m		[37]
Zangbu	October 14, 1995		South Korean expedition	Nepal	Fall	Near Summit		[37]
Chen Yu-Nan	May 9, 1996	36	"Makalu" Gau Ming-Ho Taiwanese expedition	Taiwan	Injuries from a fall	7200m South Col		[93]
Scott Fischer	May 11, 1996	40	Mountain Madness	United States	Suspected HACE (high-altitude cerebral edema), exhaustion, frostbite and exposure.	8300m S.E. Ridge	Recovered, buried on Everest	[28][67][94]
Rob Hall	May 11, 1996	35	Adventure Consultants	New Zealand	Exposure	South Summit	Remains found	[28][67][94]
Doug Hansen	May 11, 1996	46		United States	Exposure	8700m South Col	Not recovered	[28][67][94]
Andrew Harris	May 11, 1996	31		New Zealand	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	8700m S.E. Ridge	Not recovered	[28][67][94]
Yasuko Namba	May 11, 1996	47		Japan	Exposure	7900m South Col	Recovered in 1997 and buried in Japan	[67][94]
Dorje Morup	May 11, 1996	47	Indo-Tibetan Border Police	India	Exposure	8600m N.E. Ridge	Not recovered, potential identity for Green Boots	[67][94]
Tsewang Paljor	May 11, 1996	28		India	Exposure	8600m N.E. Ridge	Not recovered, potential identity for Green Boots	[28][67][94]
Tsewang Samanla	May 11, 1996	38		India	Exposure	8600m N.E. Ridge		[67][94]
Reinhard Wlasich	May 19, 1996	45	First Hungarian Mount Everest Expedition	Austria	Altitude sickness	8300m North Face, Great Couloir		[93][95]
Bruce Herrod	May 25, 1996	37	South African/British	United Kingdom	Rope accident	8800m S.E. Ridge, Hillary Step		[96]
Ngawang Topche	June 6, 1996		American	Nepal	Lapsed into coma on 23 Apr 1996; later died in hospital	Camp II		[97]
Yves Bouchon	September 25, 1996	47	French/Belgian/Swiss	France	Avalanche	7800m Lhotse Face		[67][93][98]
Lopsang Jangbu	September 25, 1996	25	Japanese	Nepal	Avalanche	7400m Lhotse Face		[67][98]
Dawa	September 25, 1996		South Korea	Nepal	Avalanche	7400m Lhotse Face		[67][98]
Malcolm Duff	April 23, 1997	43	British	United Kingdom	Heart attack	Base Camp		[37][93]
Nima Rinzi	May 6, 1997		Malaysian	United Kingdom	Fall	Lhotse Face		[37]
Aleksandr Torochin	May 7, 1997		Russian	Russia	Fall	8400m N.E. Ridge		[37][99][100][101][102]
Ivan Plotnikov	May 7, 1997	36		Russia	Exhaustion and/or exposure	8700m N.E. Ridge		[37][93][99][100][101][102]
Nikolai Chevtchenko	May 7, 1997	52		Russia	Exhaustion and/or exposure	8700m N.E. Ridge		[37][93][99][100][101][102]
Mingma	May 7, 1997			Nepal	Fall	N.E. Ridge		[99]
Peter Andreas Kowalzik	May 8, 1997	29	Polish	Germany	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	8600m N.E. Ridge		[93][103]
Tenzing Nuru	September 8, 1997		American	Nepal	Disappearance (likely accidental death during climb)	S.E. Ridge		[104]
Choi Byong-soo	September 8, 1997	33	South Korean	South Korea	Avalanche	6800m North Col Flank		[37][93]
Sergei Arsentiev	May 24, 1998	40	Russian/French	United States	Fall	N.E. Ridge	Remains found in 1999	[28][100][105]
Francys Arsentiev	May 24, 1998	40		United States	Exposure and/or cerebral edema	N.E. Ridge	Remains found in 1998, pushed over the north edge in burial ceremony on Everest in 2007	[28][100][105]
Mark Jennings	May 25, 1998	49	British	United Kingdom	Exhaustion	8200m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Roger Buick	May 26, 1998	52	New Zealand	New Zealand	Exhaustion	7400m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Shahid Abdul Khader	July 24, 1998	21		India	Fall	North Col		[8]
Vasyl Kopytko	May 8, 1999	34	Ukrainian	Ukraine	Exposure	8500m N.E. Ridge		[37][93][106]
Michael Matthews	May 13, 1999	22	International	United Kingdom	Disappearance (likely accidental death during descent)	S.E. Ridge	Not recovered	[107]
Tadeusz Kudelski	May 18, 1999	44	Polish International	Poland	Fall	8600m N.E. Ridge		[93][108]
Pascal Debrouwer	May 18, 1999	29	Belgian International	Belgium	Fall	8400m N.E. Ridge		[93][109][110]
Jeppe Stoltz	May 20, 2000	27	Independent	Denmark	Fall	8500m N.E. Ridge		[37]
Yan Genghua	May 21, 2000	41	Chinese	China	Disappearance (likely accidental death during descent)	8750m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Babu Chiri Sherpa	April 29, 2001	35	Nepalese	Nepal	Fall	N.E. Ridge		[18]
Peter Ganner	May 23, 2001	57	Austrian	Austria	Fall	8500m S.E. Ridge		[93][111]
Mark Auricht	May 24, 2001	37	Australian	Australia	Cerebral edema	7900m N.E. Ridge		[93][112]
Aleksei Nikiforov	May 24, 2001	45	Russian	Russia	Pre-existing illness exacerbated by freezing conditions, altitude	8500m N.E. Ridge		[93][102][113]
Sándor Gárdos	October 17, 2001	38	Hungarian	Hungary	Fall	7800m N.E. Ridge		[112][114]
Peter Legate	April 30, 2002	38	British International	United Kingdom	Fall	Below Camp III		[115]
Zoran Miletić	May 17, 2002	41	Russian International	FR Yugoslavia	Unknown	7800m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Marco Siffredi	September 8, 2002	23	International	France	Snowboarding accident	Hornbein Couloir		[116]
Bhim Bahadur Gurung	May 27, 2003	38	Indo-Nepal	Nepal	Fall	5900m Icefall		[37][93]
Jan Krzysztof Liszewski	May 25, 2003	55	Independent	Poland	Fall	7900m N.E. Ridge		[37]
Arnaud Saulnier	May 8, 2003	30	French	France	Sickness in tent	5500m S.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Karma Gyalzen Sherpa	May 24, 2003		International	Nepal	Altitude sickness	6000m S.E. Ridge		[37]
Joon-ho Baek	May 18, 2004	38	South Korean	South Korea	Exposure	8500m N.E. Ridge		[37][117][118]
Min Jang	May 18, 2004	28		South Korea	Exposure	8500m N.E. Ridge		[37][117][118]
Moo-taek Park	May 18, 2004	36		South Korea	Exposure	8,750m N.E. Ridge	Remains found, body moved to 8,600m and covered with a cairn in 2005	[37][117][118]
Nils Antezana	May 18, 2004	69	International	United States,  Bolivia	Exposure	8600m S.E. Ridge		[119]
Hristo Ganchev Hristov	May 20, 2004	27	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	Exposure	8600m N.E. Ridge		[37]
Shoko Ota	May 20, 2004	63	Adventure Guides	Japan	Lost consciousness during descent	8600m N.E. Ridge		[120][121]
Mariana Prodanova Maslarova	May 23, 2004	43	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	Exposure	8700m N.E. Ridge		[37]
Sean Egan	April 28, 2005	63	Tim Redpath Expedition	Canada	Heart attack	4600m S.E. Ridge		[122]
Michael Corey O'Brien[123]	May 2, 2005	39	Charity run with brother	United States	Fall	5800m Icefall South		[124]
Marko Lihteneker	May 21, 2005	35	7 Summits Club	Slovenia	Oxygen problems which resulted in fall	8600m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Sirigereshiva Shankarappa Chaitanya	May 30, 2005	31	Indian	India	Exposure	8700m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Dieter Kramer	June 4, 2005	49	German	Germany	Exposure	8000m N.E.		[37]
Robert William Milne	June 5, 2005	49	Himalayan Guides	United Kingdom United States	Organ failure due to freezing conditions	8200m S.E. Ridge		[93][125]
Tuk Bahadur Thapa Magar Sherpa	April 7, 2006		American	Nepal	Altitude sickness	5500m N.E. Ridge		[37]
Ang Phinjo Sherpa	April 21, 2006	50	American	Nepal	Avalanche	5900m Icefall		[126]
Lhakpa Tseri	April 21, 2006			Nepal	Avalanche	5900m Icefall		[126]
Dawa Temba	April 21, 2006			Nepal	Avalanche	5900m Icefall		[126]
Jacques-Hugues Letrange	May 17, 2006	32	American	France	Exhaustion	8750m N.E. Ridge		[37][127]
Srikrishna	May 14, 2006		Indian	India	Fall	8600m N.E. Ridge		[37]
David Sharp	May 15, 2006	34	Asian Trekking	United Kingdom	Exposure and/or exhaustion	8600m N.E. Ridge	Remains found, body removed from sight per the request of family	[28][128]
Tomas Olsson	May 16, 2006	30	Independent	Sweden	Fall	8700m Norton Couloir		[37]
Vitor Negrete	May 19, 2006	38	Asian Trekking	Brazil	Exposure and/or exhaustion	Camp III, 8200m N.E. Ridge		[129]
Igor Plyushkin	May 22, 2006	54		Russia	Altitude sickness	7800m N.E. Ridge		[37]
Thomas Weber	May 25, 2006	41		Germany	Altitude sickness	8700m N.E. Ridge		[93][130]
Dawa Sherpa	April 26, 2007			Nepal		7200m South Col		[131]
Shinichi Ishii	May 17, 2007			Japan		8650m		[131]
Libor Kozák	May 17, 2007	47 [132]		Czech Republic		8300m		[131]
Yoshitomi Okura	May 16, 2007	62	Japanese	Japan	Altitude sickness	8650m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Maurizio Pierangelo	May 17, 2007	51	Italian	Italy	Disappearance	8800m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Oh Hee-joon	May 17, 2007	37	South Korean	South Korea		S.W. Face		[133][134]
Lee Hyun-jo	May 17, 2007	34		South Korea	Avalanche	7700m S.W. Face		[93][133][134]
Uwe Gianni Goltz	May 22, 2008	44	Sherpas documentary team	Switzerland	Exhaustion	8000m South Col		[135]
Lhakpa Nuru	May 7, 2009		Eco Everest Expedition	Nepal	Avalanche	Icefall		[136]
Věslav Chrzaszcz	May 18, 2009	47	Asian Trekking	Czech Republic	Heart attack	4700m N.E. Ridge		[37][93]
Wenhong Wu	May 19, 2009	41	Holy Mountain China	China	Altitude sickness	N.E. Ridge 8750m		[37][93]
Frank Ziebarth	May 21, 2009	29	Independent	Canada	Hypothermia and lack of oxygen	8700m North Summit		[37][93]
László Várkonyi	April 26, 2010	54	Asian Trekking	Hungary	Avalanche crevasse fall	6800m North Col		[93][137]
Tom Jørgensen	May 19, 2010	56		Denmark	HACE			[37]
Peter Kinloch	May 26, 2010	28	International	United Kingdom	Exhaustion	8600m		[138]
Rick Hitch	May 1, 2011	55	International	United States	Heart attack	7010m	Recovered	[139][140]
Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya	May 9, 2011	82	Nepal	Nepal	Altitude sickness	Base Camp		[141]
Takashi Ozaki	May 12, 2011	58	Ozaki Filming Expedition to Everest	Japan	Hypoxia, Altitude sickness	8400m The Balcony	Recovered	[142][131]
John Delaney	May 21, 2011	42	International	Ireland	Altitude sickness	8400m The Balcony		[143]
Hiroaki Kino	September 15, 2011	48	Bochi Bochi Trek	Japan	Cerebral apoplexy	Base Camp		[144][145][146]
Dawa Tenzing	April 5, 2012		Himex	Nepal	Stroke (CVA)	Icefall		[147][148]
Karsang Namgyal Sherpa	April 19, 2012		Prestige Adventures	Nepal	Altitude sickness	Base Camp		[148][149]
Ramesh Gulve	April 20, 2012	33	Pune team	India	Stroke	Base Camp		[148][150]
Namgyal Tshering Sherpa	April 21, 2012	28		Nepal	Fall	Camp I		[148][151]
Shriya Shah-Klorfine	May 19, 2012	33	Utmost Adventures	Canada	Exhaustion	Below Balcony 8300m	Recovered	[28][148][152]
Eberhard Schaaf	May 19, 2012	61	Asian Trekking	Germany	Cerebral edema	Hillary Step		[148][152]
Song Won-bin	May 19, 2012	44	Korean Everest & Lhotse Expedition	South Korea	Fall	Balcony		[148][152]
Ha Wenyi	May 20, 2012	55	Mountain Experience	China	Suspected altitude sickness	Balcony		[148][153]
Juan José Polo Carbayo	May 20, 2012	43	Himalayan Guides	Spain	Exhaustion	8300m N.E. Ridge		[148][154]
Milan Sedláček	May 20, 2012	51	Lhotse 2012	Czech	Disappearance (likely accidental death during descent)	Lhotse Face	Recovered	[155]
Ralf D. Arnold	May 20, 2012	43	Monterosa	Germany	Exhaustion and related complications after breaking leg at Second Step	8300m N.E. Ridge		[148][154]
Mingma Sherpa	April 7, 2013	45	Destination Himalaya	Nepal	Fall	Between Camps I and II in the Western Cwm		[156]
DaRita Sherpa	May 5, 2013	37	International Mountain Guides	Nepal	Suspected cardiac arrest	Camp III on south side		[157]
Sergey Ponomarev	May 5, 2013	43	7 Summits Club Everest expedition	Russia	Suspected cardiac arrest	At 100m above ABC on north side (at about 6500m)		[93][158]
Lobsang Sherpa	May 7, 2013	22	Chinese expedition team	Nepal	Fall	Between Camp II and Camp III on descent from Camp IV (on south side)		[159]
Alexey Bolotov	May 15, 2013	50	Russian South-West Face expedition	Russia	Fall	5600m Icefall	Recovered	[160][161][162]
Namgyal Sherpa	May 17, 2013	35		Nepal		8300m N.E. Ridge		[163]
Seo Sung-ho	May 21, 2013	33	Zero to 8848 expedition	South Korea	Suspected altitude sickness	On descent (south side)		[164]
Mohammed Khaled Hossain (Sajal Khaled)	May 21, 2013	35		Bangladesh	Suspected altitude sickness	South Col Camp		[164]
Unknown climber	May 22, 2013			Nepal	Suspected altitude sickness	Camp IV (south side) in tent		[165]
Mingma Tenzing Sherpa	April 2, 2014		Peak Freaks Expedition	Nepal	HAPE	Everest Base Camp		[166]
Mingma Nuru Sherpa	April 18, 2014	46	NBC Everest Expedition	Nepal	2014 Mount Everest Avalanche	Icefall		[12]
Dorji Sherpa	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Ang Tshiri Sherpa	April 18, 2014		AAI Everest Expedition 2014	Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Nima Sherpa	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Tenzing Chottar Sherpa	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Phurba Ongyal Sherpa	April 18, 2014		Adventure Consultants	Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Lapka Tenjing Sherpa	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Chhiring Ongchu Sherpa	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Dorjee Khatri	April 18, 2014		Adventurist Everest Expedition 2014	Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Then Dorjee Sherpa	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Phur Temba Sherpa	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Pasang Karma Sherpa	April 18, 2014		Jagged Globe Everest Expedition 2014	Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Ankaji Sherpa	April 18, 2014		Everest Chinese Dream Expedition 2014	Nepal		Icefall		[12]
PemTenji Sherpa	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Aash Bahadur Gurung	April 18, 2014			Nepal		Icefall		[12]
Daniel Paul Fredinburg	April 25, 2015	33	2015 Jagged Globe Everest Expedition	United States	Base Camp avalanche following the April 2015 Nepal earthquake	Base Camp	Recovered	[15][14][16][167] [168][169][170][171][172]
Marisa Eve Girawong	April 25, 2015	28	H.G. Nuptse Expedition 2015	United States		Base Camp	Recovered	[168][169][170][171][172]
Thomas Ely Taplin	April 25, 2015	61	TET Films & Photography	United States		Base Camp		[169][173]
Pemba Sherpa	April 25, 2015	19	Adventure Consultants	Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][172][174][175]
Dawa Tsering Sherpa	April 25, 2015	33		Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][172][175]
Maila (Milan) Rai	April 25, 2015	41		Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][172][174]
Chhimi Dawa Sherpa	April 25, 2015	27		Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][172][175]
Pema Yishi (Hissi) Sherpa	April 25, 2015	33		Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][172][174][175]
Pasang Temba Sherpa	April 25, 2015		Tim Mosedale Everest Expedition (or H.G. Everest Expedition 2015)	Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][172][176]
Krishna Kumar Rai	April 25, 2015			Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][172][176]
Tenzing (Tengien) Bhote	April 25, 2015			Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][172][177]
Renu Fotedar	April 25, 2015	49	First Chinese Women Everest Expedition	Australia,  India		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][176][172]
Lhakpa Chhiring Sherpa	April 25, 2015	33		Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][172]
Vinh B Truong	April 25, 2015	48	Trekker	United States,  Vietnam		Base Camp		[169][170]
Shiva Kumar Shrestha	April 25, 2015	25	Step Up Campaign Everest	Nepal		Base Camp	Recovered	[170][171][172]
Unnamed	April 25, 2015					Base Camp		[178]
Unnamed	April 25, 2015					Base Camp		[178]
Jangbu Sherpa	May 1, 2015		Adventure Consultants	Nepal		Base Camp	Evacuated, succumbed to injuries in hospital	[170][174][175]
Charles MacAdams	May 11, 2016	62		Canada	Cardiac event	Base Camp North Side	Recovered	[179][180][181]
Ang Phurba Sherpa	May 19, 2016	25		Nepal	Fall	Near summit	Recovered	[182][183]
Eric Arnold	May 21, 2016	35	Arnold Coster Expeditions	Netherlands	Altitude sickness	South Col / Camp IV	Recovered	[182][184][185][186][183]
Marisa Elizabeth Strydom	May 22, 2016	34		Australia  South Africa	Snow blindness, stroke	Near Camp IV	Recovered	[182][186][187][188][183]
Subhash Pal	May 22, 2016	44	Trekking Camp Nepal	India	Altitude sickness	Around Camp III	Recovered	[189][190][183]
Paresh Chandra Nath	May 22, 2016	58		India	Exposure	Balcony	Recovered	[191][192][193]
Goutam Ghosh	May 22, 2016	50		India	Exposure	The Balcony	Recovered	[191][192]
Minn Bahadur Serchan	May 5, 2017	85		Nepal	Heart attack	Base Camp	Recovered	[194][195]
Roland Yearwood	May 20, 2017	50	Everest Parivar Treks	United States	Altitude sickness	Balcony	Recovered[196]	[197][198]
Vladimír Štrba	May 21, 2017	48	Everest Hard Way Slovak Expedition 2017	Slovakia	Altitude sickness	Camp IV, in the tent	Recovered	[199][200][201]
Francesco Enrico Marchetti	May 21, 2017	54	Expedition Himalaya	Australia	Altitude sickness	Camp IV		[202][203]
Ravi Kumar	May 21, 2017	27	Arun Treks and Expedition	India	Fall	Balcony	Recovered	[204][205][192]
Lam Babu Sherpa	May 14, 2018	45	Seven Summit Treks	Nepal	Disappearance (reportedly suffered from snow blindness)	Above South Col	Not recovered	[206][207]
Pasang Norbu Sherpa	May 18, 2018	41	7 Summits Club Expedition	Nepal	Stroke	8550m N.E. Ridge		[207]
Gjeorgi Petkov	May 20, 2018	63	Tim Mosedale Everest Expedition Spring 2018	North Macedonia	Cardiac arrest	Above Camp III	Recovered	[208][209]
Nobukazu Kuriki	May 21, 2018	36	Solo	Japan	Hypothermia, had previously reported "persistent cough and pain" during attempt	Camp II	Recovered	[210][211][212]
Damai Sarki Sherpa	May 21, 2018	37	Himalayan Ascent, Seven Summit Treks	Nepal	Fall	Camp II	Evacuated, succumbed to head injury	[213][214]
Séamus (Shay) Lawless	May 16, 2019	39	Seven Summit Treks	Ireland	Presumed dead after fall	Balcony	Not recovered	[215][216]
Ravi Thakar	May 17, 2019	28		India	Altitude sickness	Camp IV	Recovered	[217][218]
Donald Cash	May 22, 2019	55	Pioneer Adventures	United States	Altitude sickness	Hillary Step		[219]
Nihal Bagwan	May 23, 2019	27	Peak Promotions	India	Exhaustion on descent	Near South Col	Recovered	[220][221][222]
Ernst Landgraf	May 23, 2019	65	Kobler & Partners	Austria	Exhaustion on descent	Tibet side at 8600m after summiting		[220][223][221]
Anjali S. Kulkarni	May 23, 2019	54	Transcent or Arun Treks	India	Exhaustion on descent	Near Camp IV	Recovered	[220][224][222]
Kalpana Dash	May 23, 2019	52	Dreamers Destination Treks	India	Exhaustion on descent	Near Balcony	Recovered	[220][221][225]
Kevin Hynes	May 24, 2019	56	360 Expeditions	Ireland	Altitude sickness	North Col	Not recovered	[226][227]
Dhruba Bista	May 24, 2019		Himalayan Ecstasy (Ski) Treks	Nepal	Exhaustion and altitude sickness	Base Camp following evacuation from Camp III	Recovered	[228]
Robin Haynes Fisher	May 25, 2019	44	Summit Climb/ Everest Parivar Expedition Ltd	United Kingdom	Exhaustion during descent	8750m		[229]
Christopher Jon Kulish	May 27, 2019	62	Climbing the Seven Summits	United States	Cardiac event during descent	South Col		[230][231]
Puwei Liu	May 12, 2021	55	Seven Summit Treks	United States	Exhaustion, snow blindness	Turned back at Hillary Step (8800m)	Recovered, died in Camp IV	[232][233] [234]
Abdul Waraich	May 12, 2021	41		Switzerland	Exhaustion	8350m South Summit	Recovered	[232][233]
Pemba Tashi Sherpa	May 18, 2021	28	Climbing the Seven Summits	Nepal	Fall	Between Camp I & Camp II	Recovered	[235][236]
Wong Dorchi Sherpa	May 23, 2021		7 Summits Club	Nepal	Fall	Near Camp IV	Recovered in 2023	[237][238]
Ngima Tenji Sherpa	April 14, 2022	38	IMG	Nepal	Exhaustion and collapse	'Football Field' near Icefall	Recovered	[239]
Pavel Kostrikin	May 7, 2022	55		Russia	Altitude sickness at Camp II, returned to Camp I	Camp I	Recovered, died in Camp I	[240][241]
Dipak Mahat	May 12, 2022	32	High 5 Adventures	Nepal	Altitude sickness and excessive bleeding	Camp II	Evacuated, died in hospital	[242][243]
Lakpa Rita Sherpa	April 12, 2023		Imagine Nepal	Nepal	Crushed under serac	Khumbu Icefall	Not recovered	[244][245]
Pemba Tenzing Sherpa	April 12, 2023	31	Imagine Nepal	Nepal			Not recovered	[244][245]
Da Chhiree Sherpa	April 12, 2023		Imagine Nepal	Nepal			Not recovered	[244][245]
Jonathan Sugarman	May 1, 2023	69	IMG	United States	Illness	Camp II	Recovered	[246][247]
Phurba Sherpa	May 16, 2023		Nepal Army	Nepal	Illness	Above Camp III	Recovered	[248]
Victor Brinza	May 17, 2023	45	Himalayan Traverse Adventure	Moldova	Illness	Camp IV	Recovered	[249]
Suzanne Leopoldina Jesus	May 18, 2023	59	Glacier Himalaya Treks	India	Illness	Base Camp	Evacuated, died in hospital	[250]
Xuebin Chen	May 18, 2023	52	8K Expedition	China	Fall	South Summit		[251]
Ag Askandar Bin Ampuan Yaacub	May 19, 2023	56	Pioneer Adventure	Malaysia	Illness	South Col	Recovered	[252][253][254]
Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya	May 19, 2023	39	The Seven Summits	Singapore	HACE	8,500m	Not recovered	[255][256][257]
Muhammad Hawari Bin Hashim	May 20, 2023	33	Pioneer Adventure	Malaysia	Disappearance (likely accidental death during descent)	Between Camp IV and III	Not recovered	[258][259][260]
Jason Bernard Kennison	May 21, 2023	40	Asian Trekking	Australia	Illness	Balcony	Not recovered	[261][262]
Ang Kami Sherpa	May 21, 2023		Peak Promotion	Nepal	Fall	Camp II	Recovered	[263]
Suhajda Szilárd	May 25, 2023	40	Solo Expedition	Hungary	Disappearance (reportedly suffered from HACE)	Hillary Step	Not recovered	[264]
Ranjit Kumar Shah	May 25, 2023			Nepal	Disappearance	South Summit	Not recovered	[265]
Pieter Swart	May 26, 2023	63	Madison Mountaineering	Canada	Respiratory event	Descending from Camp VI	Recovered	[266][267]
Lhakpa Nuru Sherpa	June 3, 2023	42		Nepal	Suffered from HAPE, later died in hospital due to cardiopulmonary arrest	South Summit	Evacuated, died in hospital	[268]
Swapnil Adinath Garad	June 7, 2023	36	Asian Trekking	India	Acute mountain sickness	South Summit	Evacuated, died in Kathmandu hospital	[269][270]
Usakhjargal Tsedendamba	May 12, 2024	53	8K Expeditions	Mongolia	Exhaustion, low oxygen	Above Camp IV	Recovered	[271][272]
Purevsuren Lkhagvajav	May 12, 2024	31	8K Expeditions	Mongolia	Exhaustion, low oxygen	The Balcony, Above Camp IV	Recovered	[273][274][275]
Daniel Paul Paterson	May 21, 2024	40	8K Expeditions	United Kingdom	Fall	Near Hillary Step	Not recovered	[276]
Pas Tenji Sherpa	May 21, 2024	23	8K Expeditions	Nepal	Fall	Near Hillary Step	Not recovered	[277][276]
Gabriel Viorel Tabara	May 21, 2024	48	Makalu Adventures	Romania	Found dead in tent	Camp III	Recovered	[278][279]
Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui	May 22, 2024	40	Seven Summit Treks	Kenya	Fall	Below the Summit	Remains found in 2024	[280][281]
Nawang Sherpa	May 22, 2024		Seven Summit Treks	Nepal	Disappeared	Below the Summit	Not recovered	[282]
Binod Babu Bastakoti	May 23, 2024		Yeti Mountain Adventure	Nepal	Altitude sickness	Camp IV	Evacuated, died in hospital	[283][284]
Philipp II Santiago	May 15, 2025	45	Snowy Horizon Treks	Philippines	Possible exhaustion	Camp IV	Died in Camp IV	[285][286][287]
Subrata Ghosh	May 15, 2025	45	Snowy Horizon Treks	India	Altitude sickness	Hillary Step	Died while descending, waiting for recovery	[288]

By nationality

The table below indicates all the nationalities of the deaths on Mount Everest to date.

Some Mount Everest deaths had dual nationalities. The dual nationalities numbers are included in the table below and are marked by a asterisk (*) next to the country. This is to show that of the number of deaths from a certain country one or more death had dual nationality.

Country	Total deaths
Nepal	129
India *	28
United States *	21
United Kingdom *	20
Japan	19
China	12
South Korea	11
Australia *	9
Russia	8
Canada	7
Poland	7
France	6
Germany	6
Czechoslovakia	5
Spain	4
Austria	3
Bulgaria	3
Czech Republic	3
Hungary	3
Ireland	3
Italy	3
New Zealand	3
Switzerland	3
Unknown	3
Denmark	2
Malaysia	2
Mongolia	2
Taiwan	2
Bangladesh	1
Belgium	1
Bolivia *	1
Brazil	1
Chile	1
FR Yugoslavia	1
Kenya	1
Moldova	1
Netherlands	1
North Macedonia	1
Romania	1
Singapore	1
Slovakia	1
Slovenia	1
South Africa *	1
Sweden	1
Ukraine	1
Vietnam	1
West Germany	1
Yugoslavia	1
Philippines	1

See also

• China portal
• Mountains portal
• Nepal portal

• List of deaths on eight-thousanders
• List of Mount Everest death statistics
• List of Mount Everest records
• Mount Hood climbing accidents
• Rongbuk Glacier
• The Himalayan Database
• Timeline of climbing Mount Everest

Annotations

1. Unconfirmed Russian deaths on the north side of Everest resulted from an alleged 1952 expedition. The Chinese, upon taking control of the region, enacted strict travel restrictions. Supposedly, the Chinese government did allow some Soviet climbers near the mountain, and reports leaked out of a Soviet expedition in 1952. The expedition, apparently led by Pavel Datschnolian, was said to have been a disaster, resulting in the deaths of Datschnolian and five other men. However, Russian and Chinese authorities have consistently denied that such an attempt took place, no physical evidence has ever been found to confirm its existence, nor is there any record of a person named Pavel Datschnolian.^[22]
2. Date of death not known exactly; this date was his last diary entry.
3. Also known as Zhao Ziqing
4. Also known as Wu Tsung-yue
5. Also known as Luo San
6. Also known as Nima Tashi