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During the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, mountaineering guide Rob Hall and three other people died at the South Summit while descending from the main summit in an unexpected blizzard. Hall survived overnight, and established radio contact the following day, but froze to death later that day, May 11, 1996. His body remains on the South Summit.

Describing his first ascent of Mount Everest without artificial oxygen in 1978, Reinhold Messner described the South Summit as "quite a milestone for me".

A geologist with a 1965 Indian Everest expedition discovered a deposit of fossils of seashells in limestone about 100 feet above the South Summit. This expedition put nine climbers on the main summit.