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North face of 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.
Six of the fourteen summits of the Eight-Thousanders (Manaslu, Shishapangma, Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Mt. Everest and Makalu). 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.
See also Dr. Beck Weathers, a medical doctor who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster. [11] Dr. A. M. Kellas (1921, en route to Everest as part of expedition) [3] [12] Dr. Karl G. Henize (1993), PhD in Astronomy and U.S. Astronaut [13] Dr. Sándor Gárdos (2001), Hungarian team doctor, specialist of high altitude medicine [14]
The world’s highest mountain continues to draw climbers willing to risk their lives as they clamber past frozen corpses on their way to the top.
An 11th climber has died trying to reach the summit
British mountaineers George Mallory is seen with Andrew Irvine at the base camp in Nepal, both members of the Mount Everest expeditions 1922 and 1924, as they get ready to climb the peak of Mount ...
Since Matthew Jones neither tried climbing nor died on Everest, what justification, then, is there in including him on a List of people who died climbing Mount Everest? Peaceray 22:48, 10 April 2017 (UTC) P.S. Everest Base Camp may refer to one of two camps, each above 5,000 metres. So, Mathew Jones did not go there on his acclimatizing walk.
Youngest brothers / siblings to trek to Everest Base Camp Aged 6, 8, 11 years James, Tobin and Aidan O'Donnell United Kingdom August 2016 [150] First person with Down's Syndrome to Everest Base Camp 15 years old Eli Reimer United States 2013 [151] First Belizean to trek to Everest Base Camp 34 years old Nicholas Metzgen Belize April 2019