List of Mount Everest death statistics

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

Death extremes

Youngest people to die on Mount Everest

Examples of known cases

Rahul Panchal, 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, September 8, 2002, 23
Himanshu Kapoor, April 25, 2015, 29

Oldest people to die on Mount Everest

Min Bahadur Sherchan, May 5, 2017, 85
Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay, May 9, 2011, 82
Nils Antezana, May 18, 2004, 69
Jonathan Sugarman, May 1, 2023, 69
Karl Gordon Henize, October 5, 1993, 66
Ernst Landgraf, May 23, 2019, 65

Deaths by nationality

Nationality

Count

Australia

Cause of death

Cause	Count
Avalanche	68
Fall	67
Exposure	27
Altitude sickness	21
Cardiac arrest	11
Exhaustion and/or exposure	8
Exhaustion	7
Serac	6
Cerebral edema	8
Stroke	2
Frostbite	1
Other	15
Unknown cause	52

Professions

Medical and scientific professionals who died on Everest

See also Dr. Beck Weathers, a medical doctor who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster.

Dr. A. M. Kellas
Dr. Karl G. Henize, PhD in Astronomy and U.S. Astronaut
Dr. Sándor Gárdos, Hungarian team doctor, specialist of high altitude medicine
Dr. Nils Antezana, Pathologist
Dr. Robert Milne, Software Engineer
Dr. Peter Kinloch
Dr. Eberhard Schaaf, German doctor who died in high altitude
Dr. Charles MacAdams
Dr. Maria Strydom
Dr. Roland Yearwood, a medical doctor in Alabama
Dr. Jonathan Sugarman, a retired medical doctor from Washington State

Other statistics

Named corpses

"The German Woman", Hannelore Schmatz
"Green Boots", possibly Tsewang Paljor
"Sleeping Beauty", Francys Arsentiev

Died on descent after summiting

Examples of those who, after summiting, died on the descent down or soon after
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