Mount Everest from the northern side. The snowy peak catching light in front of Everest isChangtse . A post-card of Everest from the 1920s, the view from Rongbuk glacier (north side) Mount Everest is the world'shighest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) and thus a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 2000.[ 1] After 2000, the number of climbers greatly increased when the peak became more accessible and more popular. By 2013, 6,871 summits had been recorded by 4,042 different people.[ 2]
Only six people summited Mount Everest in the 1950s:[ 1]
In total, 18 people summited in the 1960s.[ 4] These are the ascents:
Wang Fuzhou ,Gonpo Dorje , andChu Ying-hua on May 25, 1960. The1960 Chinese Mount Everest expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by the North Ridge.Jim Whittaker andNawang Gombu on May 1, 1963, on the1963 American Mount Everest expedition [ 5] [ 6] Barry Bishop ,[ 6] Lute Jerstad ,Willi Unsoeld andTom Hornbein on May 22, 1963, on the1963 American Mount Everest expedition [ 7] Nawang Gombu and eight othersIndian Everest Expedition 1965 on May 20, 1965Avtar Singh Cheema Sonam Gyatso Sonam Wangyal C. P. Vohra Ang Kami H. P. S. Ahluwalia H. C. S. Rawat Phu Dorjee Sherpa [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] In total, 78 people summited in the 1970s.[ 1] These are some of the most notable ascents:
Teruo Matsuura[ 15] Naomi Uemura [ 15] Katsutoshi Hirabayashi[ 15] Chottare Sherpa[ 15] Hubert Hillmaier Sepp Mack (without supplementary oxygen) Hans Engl [de ] (without supplementary oxygen)Pierre Mazeaud Nicolas Jaeger Kurt Diemberger Jean Afanassieff [fr ] Wanda Rutkiewicz Robert Allenbach Siegfried Hupfauer Wilhelm Klimek Ang Dorje (without supplementary oxygen) Mingma Sherpa (without supplementary oxygen) Ang Kami George Ritter Berndt Kullmann In the 1980s, 871 climbers set off from Base Camp; around 180 made the summit; and 56 died.[ 1] [ 23] Overall about 356 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 1989.[ 1] [ 23] These are some of the most notable ascents of the 1980s:
Leszek Cichy andKrzysztof Wielicki on February 17, 1980 (first winter ascent)[ 24] Takashi Ozaki andTsuneo Shigehiro on May 10, 1980[ 25] Martin Zabaleta andPasang Temba on May 14, 1980[ 26] Jerzy Kukuczka andAndrzej Czok on May 19, 1980[ 27] Reinhold Messner on August 20, 1980 (first solo ascent, without supplementary oxygen)[ 21] Eleven Soviet climbers in May 1982[ 28] 1982 Canadian Mount Everest Expedition[ 29] Laurie Skreslet on October 5, 1982, with Sherpas Sungdare Sherpa and Lhakpa Dorje[ 29] Pat Morrow on October 7, 1982,[ 30] with Sherpas Pema Dorje and Lhakpa Tshering[ 29] Yasuo Kato on December 27, 1982 (winter ascent)[ 17] [ 31] 1983 German/American Expedition (May 1983)[ 24] Lou Reichardt, Kim Momb, and Carlos Buhler on October 8, 1983[ 24] Haruichi Kawamura (without supplementary oxygen) and Shomi Suzuki (without supplementary oxygen) on October 8, 1983[ 24] Haruyuki Endo (without supplementary oxygen), Hiroshi Yoshino (without supplementary oxygen) and Hironobu Kamuro (without supplementary oxygen) on October 8, 1983[ 24] Dan Reid, George Lowe and Jay Cassell on October 9, 1983[ 24] Takashi Ozaki in December 1983[ 32] Hristo Prodanov on April 20, 1984Metodi Savov and Ivan Valchev on May 8, 1984[ 33] Nikolay Petkov and Kiril Doskov on May 9, 1984[ 33] Bachendri Pal on May 23, 1984[ 24] Tim Macartney-Snape (without supplementary oxygen) andGreg Mortimer (without supplementary oxygen) on October 3, 1984Phil Ershler on October 20, 1984[ 34] Zoltán Demján ,Jozef Psotka and SherpaAng Rita on October 15, 19841985 Norwegian Expedition led by Arne Naess, in April 1985[ 35] 1985Catalan Expedition:Òscar Cadiach , Antoni Sors and Carles Vallès withShambu Tamang ,Ang Karma andNarayan Shrestha on August 28, 1985[ 35] Erhard Loretan andJean Troillet in 1986Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon on May 20, 1986Jean-Marc Boivin 's[ 36] 11-12 minute, 2,948 m (9,700 ft) descent to Camp II holds the altitude record for start of a paraglider flight[ 37] Marc Batard in 1988[ 38] A joint team from China,Japan , and Nepal on May 5, 1988[ 39] Stephen Venables on May 12, 1988[ 40] Stacy Allison on September 29, 1988[ 24] Lydia Bradey on 16 October 1988Sungdare Sherpa on 10 May 1988[ 17] Stipe Bozic, Viki Groselj,Dimitar Ilievski-Murato , and Sherpas Sonam and Agiva on May 10, 1989[ 41] Ricardo Torres-Nava and Sherpas, Ang Lhakpa and Dorje on May 16, 1989[ 42] Carlos Carsolio on July 18, 1989In the 1990s, 3,017 people set off from Base Camp(s); around 900 reached the summit; 55 died.[ 1] [ 23] Overall about 1237 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 1999.[ 1] These are some of the most notable ascents in the 1990s:
International Peace Climb 1990 summiters in May 1990, led byJim Whittaker :[ 43] Hooman Aprin on October 5, 1990[ 45] Marc Batard on October 5, 1990[ 46] Marija and Andrej Štremfelj on October 7, 1990Peter Hillary ,Gary Ball andRob Hall in 1990[ 47] Tim Macartney-Snape in 1990[ 48] Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal in 1992[ 49] Alberto Iñurrategi on 25.09.1992[ 50] Rodrigo Jordan team in 1992Mauricio Purto team in 1992 Cristian Garcia-Huidobro at 10:25 on May 15, 1992 Doron Erel in 1992 Santosh Yadav in May 1992Mohan Singh Gunjyal on 12 May 1992[ 51] [ 52] Kushang Sherpa on May 10, 1993[ 53] Santosh Yadav andDicky Dolma in May 1993[ 54] Veikka Gustafsson in spring 1993Pasang Lhamu Sherpa on April 22, 1993[ 55] Nine people led by Steve Bell October 7, 1993[ 56] Steve Bell on October 7, 1993[ 56] Graham Hoyland on October 7, 1993[ 56] Ginette Harrison on October 7, 1993[ 56] Gary Pfisterer on October 7, 1993[ 56] Scott McIvor on October 7, 1993[ 56] Ramón Blanco on October 7, 1993[ 55] Santosh Yadav on May 10, 1993Park Young-seok on May 16, 1993Ninety commercial alpinists in the spring of 1993 Alison Hargreaves , May 13, 1995[ 57] Waldemar Niclevitz andMozart Catão , first Brazilians, 11:22, May 14, 1995[ 58] Jim Litch on May 14, 1995[ 59] Dan Aguilar on May 14, 1995[ 59] Wongchu Sherpa on May 14, 1995[ 59] Apa Sherpa on May 15, 1995 Brad Bull on May 15, 1995 Tommy Heinrich on May 15, 1995 Constantin Lacatusu on 17 May 1995Caradog Jones on May 23, 1995[ 60] Pat Falvey on 27 May 1995Kiyoshi Furuno andShigeki Imoto in 1995[ 31] 1996 Mount Everest disaster Rob Hall (withAdventure Consultants )Scott Fischer (withMountain Madness )Doug Hansen Makalu Gau Lene Gammelgaard Yasuko Namba Göran Kropp , May 1996, without extra bottle oxygen[ 61] Ang Rita , May 23, 1996, tenth and last time to summit Mount Everest.[ 61] David Breashears team includingJamling Tenzing Norgay Ed Viesturs Araceli Segarra (see also the 1998 filmEverest )SherpaAng Rita summited ten times between 7 May 1983 and 23 May 1996 Hans Kammerlander 1996Kushang Sherpa on May 17, 1996[ 53] Francys and Sergei Arsentiev on May 24, 1998Bear Grylls ,Neil Laughton andAlan Silva on May 26, 1998Tom Whittaker on May 27, 1998[ 62] Kushang Sherpa on May 28, 1998[ 53] Kazi Sherpa (aka Kaji Sherpa) on October 17, 1998[ 46] [ 63] [ 64] [ 65] [ 66] Kushang Sherpa on May 28, 1999, until date summited from three sides of Mount Everest[ 53] [ 67] SherpaBabu Chiri Sherpa in 1999[ 68] Phurba Tashi Sherpa[ 69] [ 70] Cathy O'Dowd in 1996 and 1999Elsa Ávila on May 5, 1999[ 71] Renata Chlumska on May 5, 1999[ 72] Ken Noguchi on May 13, 1999Mike Trueman on May 13, 1999 Iván Vallejo on May 25, 1999[ 73] [i],Merab Khabazi , andIrakli Ugulava on May 26, 1999[ 74] Lev Sarkisov on May 12, 1999Karla S Wheelock on May 27, 1999[ 75] João Garcia , on May 18, 1999[ 75] Fabiano Segatto , on May 18, 1999, at 12:23pm[ 76] Everestsummiteersassociation.org/
In total, 146 people summited in 2000.[ 1] Overall about 1383 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 2000.[ 1] These are some of the most notable ascents in 2000:
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