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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]
List of people who died climbing Mount Everest; Timeline of climbing Mount Everest; Junko Tabei (Japan), the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest (16 May 1975). Wanda Rutkiewicz (Poland), the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest (16 October 1978). Hannelore Schmatz (Germany), the first woman to die on Mount ...
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A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.
In 2008, the 76-year-old became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest. [1] He lost the record in 2013 to 80-year-old Japanese climber Yūichirō Miura . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sherchan died at Everest Base Camp on 6 May 2017 while trying to reclaim his title.
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