List of Mount Everest death statistics

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

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, 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

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 (1921, en route to Everest as part of expedition)
 * Dr. Karl G. Henize (1993), PhD in Astronomy
 * Dr. Sándor Gárdos (2001), Hungarian team doctor, specialist of high altitude medicine
 * Dr. Nils Antezana (2004), Pathologist
 * Dr. Robert Milne (2005), Software Engineer
 * Dr. Peter Kinloch (2010)
 * Dr. Eberhard Schaaf (2012), German doctor who died in high altitude
 * Dr. Charles MacAdams (2016)
 * Dr. Maria Strydom (2016)
 * Dr. Roland Yearwood (2017), a medical doctor in Alabama (USA)
 * Dr. Jonathan Sugarman (2023), a retired medical doctor from Washington State (USA)

Astronaut fatality
One of the people claimed by Everest mountaineering was the U.S. astronaut Karl Gordon Henize. He was on a mission to study radiation but came down with a fatal case of HAPE in October 1993 and died at north base camp. At the time he was the oldest astronaut to have flown in space and also had a doctorate in astronomy. He died on October 5, 1993, and was buried on Mount Everest.

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 (not counting other climbs, on the same expedition but does not have to be their first summit)

examples only
 * Dimitar Ilievski-Murato
 * Francys Arsentiev
 * Hannelore Schmatz
 * Hristo Prodanov
 * Jozef Psotka
 * Lobsang Tshering
 * Marco Siffredi
 * Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
 * Ray Genet
 * Shoko Ota (2004)
 * Shriya Shah-Klorfine (2012)
 * Tomas Olsson
 * Vitor Negrete
 * Yasuko Namba
 * Matthew Edward Ball