List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest

Mount Everest from the northern side. The snowy peak catching light in front of Everest is Changtse

Everest's north face towering over southern China (Tibet region)

The north face again, but closer, although another peak obscures part of the face (see also Changtse)

Everest form Kalar Patar

Everest south-west face and Lhotse face from the Western cwm

Upper area of the North face again

List of 20th century summiters of Mount Everest: notable summits of Mount Everest in that period. This is a partial list of people who mountaineered to the peak of the mountain with the highest known elevation on Earth during the 1900s to 2001.

Overall about 1,565 people summited Everest between 1953 to the end of 2001.^[1] After 2001, the number of summiters greatly increased.

1950s

• Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay May 29, 1953 (1953 British Mount Everest expedition)
• Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet May 23, 1956.^[2]
• Dolf Reist and Hans-Rudolf von Gunten on May 24, 1957.^[2]
• 6 people summited in the 1950s.^[1]

1960s

• Jim Whittaker and Nawang Gombu May 1, 1963^[3][4]
• Tom Hornbein, Willi Unsoeld,^[4] Lute Jerstad and Barry Bishop May 22, 1963.^[5]
• Nawang Gombu and 8 others (Indian Expedition)May 20, 1965^[6]
• 18 people summited in the 1960s.^[7]

1970s

• Junko Tabei and Sherpa Ang Tshering I May 16, 1975^[8][9]
• Doug Scott and Dougal Haston September 24, 1975
• Peter Boardman and Sirdar Pertemba Sherpa September 26, 1975^[10]
• Brummie Stokes and Bronco Lane^[11] on May 16, 1976.^[12] (1976 British Army expedition)
• Ko Sang-don and Pemba Norbu Sherpa Sept 15, 1977^[13]
• Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler 8 May 1978 (First ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen).^[14]
• Sixteen people summited in October 1978 as part of the Franco-Deutsch expedition:^[13]
  • Hubert Hillmaier
  • Sepp Mack
  • Hans Engl
  • Pierre Mazeaud
  • Nicolas Jaeger
  • Kurt Diemberger
  • Jean Afanassief
  • Wanda Rutkiewicz
  • Robert Allenbach
  • Siegfried Hupfauer
  • Wilhelm Klimek
  • Ang Dorje
  • Mingma Sherpa
  • Ang Kami
  • George Ritter
  • Berndt Kullmann
• Sungdare Sherpa 2 October 1979.^[9]
• Andrej Štremfelj and Nejc Zaplotnik (May 13, 1979)
• Stipe Božić, Stane Belak and Sherpa Ang Phu. May 15, 1979
• 78 people summited in the 1970s.^[1]

1980s

• Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki February 17, 1980.^[15]
• Takashi Ozaki and Tsuneo Shigehiro, May 10, 1980^[16]
• Martin Zabaleta and Pasang Temba, May 14, 1980^[17]
• Reinhold Messner August 20, 1980.^[14]
• Yasuo Kato^[9][18]
• Eleven Soviet climbers (1982).^[19]
• Laurie Skreslet and two Sherpas, October 5, 1982
• Pat Morrow October 7, 1982^[20]
• Yasuo Kato and c Toshiaki Kobayashi^[18]
• Lou Reichardt, Kim Momb, and Carlos Buhler October 8, 1983^[15]
• Dan Reid, George Lowe and Jay Cassell October 9, 1983^[15]
• Takashi Ozaki, December 1983 ^[21]
• Hristo Prodanov April 20, 1984
• Metodi Savov and Ivan Valchev on May 8, 1984^[22]
• Nikolay Petkov and Kiril Doskov on May 9, 1984^[22]
• Bachendri Pal May 23, 1984^[15]
• Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer October 3, 1984
• Phil Ershle October 2, 1984^[23]
• Zoltán Demján, Jozef Psotka and Sherpa Ang Rita, October 15, 1984
• 1985 Norwegian Expedition led by Arne Naess;April 1985^[24]
  • Chris Bonington
  • Ang Lhakpa Dorje Sherpa
  • Dawa Nuru Sherpa
  • Arne Naess (Arne Næss)
  • Havard Nesheim
  • Sungdare Sherpa
  • Stein Aasheim
  • Ralph Hoibakk
  • Ang Rita Sherpa
  • Pema Dorje Sherpa
  • Chhewang Rinzi Sherpa
  • David Breashears
  • Richard Bass
  • Ang Phurba Sherpa
• 1985 Spanish Expedition, August 1985^[24]
• Erhard Loretan and Jean Troillet 1986
• Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon May 20, 1986
• Jean-Marc Boivin^[25] Boivin's 11-12 minute, 2,948 metres (9,700 ft) descent to Camp II holds the altitude record for start of a paraglider flight.^[26]
• Marc Batard 1988^[27]
• On May 5, 1988 a joint team from China, Japan, and Nepal^[28]
• Stacy Allison September 29, 1988^[15]
• Lydia Bradey 16 October 1988
• Sungdare Sherpa 10 May 1988^[9]
• Stipe Bozic, Viki Groselj, Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, and Sherpas Sonam and Agiva. May 10, 1989^[29]
• Ricardo Torres-Nava and Sherpas, Ang Lhakpa and Dorje. May 16, 1989^[30]
• Carlos Carsolio July 18, 1989
• 183 people summited between 1980 to 1989^[1]
• In the 1980s, 871 climbers set off from Base Camp; 180 made the summit; and 56 died.^[31]

Overall about 356 people summited Everest between 1953 to the end of 1989.^[1][32]

1990s

• Marc Batard October 5, 1990^[33]
• Marija and Andrej Štremfelj. October 7, 1990
• Travis Stopher April 1990
• Peter Hillary 1990
• Tim Macartney-Snape 1990^[34]
• Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal 1992.^[35]
• Alberto Iñurrategi on 25.09.1992 ^[36]
• Rodrigo Jordan team 1992
• Mauricio Purto team 1992
• Cristian Garcia-Huidobro at 10:25 on May 15, 1992
• Doron Erel 1992
• Santosh Yadav May 1992
• Mohan Singh Gunjyal 12 May 1992^[37][38]
• Kushang Sherpa on May 10, 1993 ^[7]
• Santosh Yadav, Dicky Dolma May 1993^[39]
• Veikka Gustafsson spring 1993
• Pasang Lhamu Sherpa April 22, 1993^[40]
• Ramón Blanco October 7, 1993^[40]
• Santosh Yadav May 10, 1993
• Park Young-seok May 16, 1993
• Ninety commercial alpinists in the autumn 1993
• Alison Hargreaves 1995
• Caradog Jones May 23, 1995^[41]
• Pat Falvey 27 May 1995
• Kiyoshi Furuno and Shigeki Imoto 1995^[18]
• 1996 Mount Everest disaster
• Rob Hall (w. Adventure Consultants)
• Scott Fischer (w. Mountain Madness)
• Doug Hansen
• Makalu Gau
• Lene Gammelgaard
• Yasuko Namba
• Göran Kropp 23 May 1996 Without oxygen
• David Breashears team including Jamling Tenzing Norgay Ed Viesturs Araceli Segarra (see also Everest (1998 film))
• Sherpa Ang Rita summited ten times, between 7 May 1983 through 23 May 1996.
• Hans Kammerlander 1996
• Kushang Sherpa on May 17, 1996^[7]
• Tom Whittaker 1998^[42]
• Kushang Sherpa on May 28, 1998^[7]
• Kazi Sherpa (aka Kaji Sherpa) October 17, 1998^{[33][43][44][45][46]}
• Kushang Sherpa on May 28, 1999, til date summited from three sides of Mount Everest^[7][47]
• Sherpa Babu Chiri Sherpa 1999^[48]
• Phurba Tashi Sherpa^[49][50]
• Cathy O'Dowd 1999
• Elsa Ávila May 5, 1999 ^[51]
• Renata Chlumska May 5, 1999 ^[52]
• Ken Noguchi May 13, 1999
• Iván Vallejo May 25, 1999^[53]
• Mamuka Tsikhiseli, Merab Khabazi, and Irakli Ugulava May 26, 1999^[54]
• Lev Sarkisov May 12, 1999
• 85 people summited in 1997^[1]
• 120 people summited in 1998^[1]
• 177 people summited in 1999^[1]
• 961 people summited between 1990 and 1999^[1]
• In the 1990s, 3,017 people set off from Base Camp(s); 881 reached the summit; 55 died^[32]

Overall about 1237 people summited Everest between 1953 to the end of 1999.^[1]

2000-2001

The 20th century ended at the end of the year 2000.

2000

This is the final year of the 20th century.

• Nazir Sabir May 17, 2000
• Toshio Yamamoto, summtited at age 63^[55]
• Babu Chiri Sherpa May 21, 2000^[33]
• Anna Czerwińska 5/22/2000 ^[56]
• Davo Karničar October 7, 2000^[57][58]
• 146 people summited in 2000^[1]

Overall about 1383 people summited Everest between 1953 to the end of 2000.^[1]

2001

This is first year of the 21st century.

• Temba Tsheri Sherpa May 23, 2001
• Marco Siffredi May 24, 2001^[59]
• Erik Weihenmayer May 25, 2001
• Sherman Bull Erik Weihenmayer
• Manuel Arturo Barrios and Fernando González-Rubio. 2001^[60]
• 19 people made it to the summit in one day in 2001, surpassing the previous record of 10 people.
• 182 people summited in 2001^[1]

Overall about 1,565 people summited Everest between 1953 to the end of 2001.^[1]

After 2001, and each year after the number of summiters greatly increased until at least the great avalanche of 2014, which killed many people at base camp.

View

Everest, Khumbu Glacier, Kumbu Icefall

Hillary and Norgay's route to the summit

Summiters who have passed

Some examples:

• Willi Unsoeld (October 5, 1926 – March 4, 1979)
• Tenzing Norgay (29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986)
• Wanda Rutkiewicz (February 4, 1943 – May 12–13, 1992)
• Barry Bishop (January 13, 1932 – September 24, 1994)^[61]
• Edmund Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008)
• Jürg Marmet (September 14, 1927 – March 8, 2013)
• John "Brummie" Stokes (August 28, 1945 - January 10, 2016)^[62]

See also

• Timeline of climbing Mount Everest
• List of Mount Everest records
• List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
• List of Mount Everest expeditions

External links

• EverestHistory.com Summits by year
• Summits to eoy 2001

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