List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on

Mount Everest Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at it ...

Death extremes

Youngest people to die on Mount Everest

''Examples of known cases'' *Rahul Panchal (Ghabus), April 25, 2015, 19 *Ang Chuldim, August 31, 1982, 20 *Lobsang Sherpa, May 7, 2013, 22 *Víctor Hugo Trujillo, August 16, 1986, 22 *Michael Matthews, May 13, 1999, 22 * Andrew Irvine, June 9, 1924, 22 *

Marco Siffredi Marco Siffredi (22 May 1979 – 8 September 2002) was a French snowboarder and mountaineer. Siffredi was the first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard, completing this feat in 2001 via the Norton Couloir. In 2002, he disappeared after ...

, September 8, 2002, 23 *Himanshu Kapoor, April 25, 2015, 29

Oldest people to die on Mount Everest

Min Bahadur Sherchan Min Bahadur Sherchan (20 June 1931 – 6 May 2017) was a Nepalese climber and former British Gurkha soldier. In 2008, the 76-year-old became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest. He lost the record in 2013 to 80-year-old Japanese climber Y� ...

, May 5, 2017, 85 *

Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay Dahal () (April 17, 1929 – May 9, 2011) was a Nepalese politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nepal from 1986 to 1990. He was Nepal's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1972 ...

, May 9, 2011, 82 * Nils Antezana, May 18, 2004, 69 * Jonathan Sugarman, May 1, 2023, 69 *

Karl Gordon Henize Karl Gordon Henize (;JPL-80 "NASA Creates Portrait of Life and ...

, October 5, 1993, 66 * Ernst Landgraf, May 23, 2019, 65

Deaths by nationality

Cause of death

Professions

Medical and scientific professionals who died on Everest

Other statistics

Named corpses

*"The German Woman",

Hannelore Schmatz Hannelore Schmatz (14 February 1940 – 2 October 1979) was a German climber and the fourth woman to summit Mount Everest. She collapsed and died as she was returning from summiting Everest via the southern route; Schmatz was the first woma ...

Green Boots Green Boots is the body of an unidentified climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. There exist several theories regarding the body's identity; the most popular one claims the body belongs to Tsewang Pal ...

", possibly Tsewang Paljor *"Sleeping Beauty",

Francys Arsentiev Francys Arsentiev (January 18, 1958 – May 24, 1998) became the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest without using bottled oxygen, on May 22, 1998. She died during the descent. Climbing In 1992, Francys married ...

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 Dimitar "Dime" Ilievski-Murato (; 29 September 1953 – 10 May 1989) was a mountaineer from SR Macedonia then part of SFR Yugoslavia, who was born in Bitola and died on Mount Everest. He was the first national of modern Republic of Macedonia eve ...

Hristo Prodanov Hristo Ivanov Prodanov also known as Christo Prodanov (; 24 February 1943 – disappeared 21 April 1984) was a Bulgarian mountaineer. Prodanov was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest, doing it via the most difficult way—the West Ridge— ...

* Jozef Psotka * Lobsang Tshering *

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Pasang Lhamu Sherpa (Sherpa: , ; 10 December 1961 – 22 April 1993) was the first Nepalese woman to climb the summit of Mount Everest. Climbing career She was born into a mountaineering family and was involved in climbing from her teens. She h ...

Ray Genet Ray Genet (July 27, 1931 – October 2, 1979), often referred to by the nickname Pirate, was a Swiss-born American mountaineer. He was the first guide on North America's highest mountain, Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley). Genet is the grandfath ...

*Shoko Ota (2004) *

Shriya Shah-Klorfine Shriya Shah-Klorfine (January 11, 1979 – May 19, 2012) was a Nepal-born Canadian woman who died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest in 2012. Early life Shah-Klorfine was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, according to ''CityNews''. At the ...

(2012) *

Tomas Olsson Tomas Kenneth Olsson (18 March 1976 – 16 May 2006) was a Swedish adventurer and ski mountaineer. He was born in Kristinehamn but grew up in Borås. He took an engineering degree at Linköping University in 2001, after which he moved to Chamo ...

Vitor Negrete Vítor Negrete (13 November 1967 – 19 May 2006) was a climber and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. He was also an adventure racer beginning in 2001. Among many other adventures, he had ...

Yasuko Namba was the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei) to climb the Seven Summits. Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world. She first summited Kilimanjaro on New Year ...

*Matthew Edward Ball

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