List of Mount Everest records

Mount Everest from Gokyo Ri

Tashi and Nungshi were the first twins to summit Mount Everest together

This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest

Records

Performance

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Most number of times to reach the summit	21	Apa Sherpa	Nepal	May 11, 2011	[1]
Most number of times to reach the summit	21	Phurba Tashi Sherpa	Nepal	May 19, 2013	[2]
Most number of summits without supplemental oxygen	10	Ang Rita	Nepal	May 23, 1996	[3]
Most deaths in one day at Everest	18	Mount Everest	Nepal, China	April 26, 2015	[4]
Fastest ascent from Everest South Base Camp (With Supplemental Oxygen)	8 hours and 10 minutes	Pemba Dorje	Nepal	May 21, 2004	[5]
Fastest ascent from Everest South Base Camp (Without Supplemental Oxygen)^a	20 hours and 24 minutes	Kazi Sherpa	Nepal	October 17, 1998	[6]
Longest stay on the summit	21 hours	Babu Chiri Sherpa	Nepal	May 6, 1999	[7]

Oldest

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Oldest person to climb M. Everest	80 years 224 days	Yuichiro Miura	Japan	May 23, 2013	[8]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	76 years and 340 days	Min Bahadur Sherchan	Nepal	2008	[9][10][11]
	75 years and 227 days	Yuichiro Miura	Japan	2008	[12][13][14]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	71 years, two months and two days old (or 61 days)[15]	Katsusuke Yanagisawa	Japan	May 22, 2007	[16]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	70 years and 225 days	Takao Arayama	Japan	May 2006	[17][18]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	70 years, seven months and 10 days old (222 days)	Yuichiro Miura	Japan	May 2003	[19][20][21][22]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	65 years, 176 days	Tomiyasu Ishikawa	Japan	17 May 2002	[23]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	64 years old	Sherman Bull	United States	May 25, 2001	[24][25]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	63 years and 311 days old	Toshio Yamamoto	Japan	2000	[26][27]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	60 years 161 days	Lev Sarkisov	Georgia	May 12, 1999	[28][29]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	60 years old 160 days	Ramon Balanca (Blanco) Suarez	Venezuela	1993 (b. 1933)	[30]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	55 years old	Richard Bass ("Dick Bass")	United States (b. 1929)	April 1985	[31][32]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	50 years old	Chris Bonington (b. 1934)	United Kingdom	April 1985	[33]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time (died descending)	50 years old	Jozef Psotka (b. 1934)	Czechoslovakia	October 1984	[34]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time (wife died on E.)	50 years, 118 days	Gerhard Schmatz (b 1929)	West Germany	October 1979	[35][23]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	49 years, 52 days	Pierre Mazeaud (b 1929)	France	15 Oct 1978	[23]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	42 years, 6 months	Sonam Gyatso (b 1922)	India (Sikkim)	22 May 1965	[23]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time	39 years	Tenzing Norgay	Nepal	29 May 1953	[23]

Norgay was older than Hillary, so they became the modern day starting point for oldest and youngest climbers respectively.

• Oldest woman to summit, Tamae Watanabe age 73 in 2012.^[36]
• Oldest woman to summit up to that time, Tamae Watanabe age 63 and 177 days, in 2002.^[37][38]
• Oldest woman to summit up to that time, Anna Czerwińska, age 50 on May 22, 2000.^[39]
• Yasuko Namba summited in 1996 at the age of 47, but died in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster^[40]
• Mary Lefever summited May 1993 at the age of 47 years 21 days^[23]
• Hannelore Schmatz summited 2 Oct 1979 at the age of 39 years, 228 days making her the oldest woman up to that time;she died descending from the summit.^[23]

Youngest

Due to some variations in record keeping, there may be some variation in the examples

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest	13 years 10 months 10 days old	Jordan Romero	United States	May 22, 2010	[41]
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest (2003-2010)	15 years old	Ming Kipa	Nepal	May 24, 2003	[42][43][44]
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest (2001-2003)	16 year 14 days old	Temba Tsheri	Nepal	May 24, 2001	[45]
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest (1990-2001)	17 years old	Bertrand Roche	France	1990	[46]

Youngest female

examples only

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Youngest girl to climb Mount Everest	13 years and 11 months old	Malavath Purna	India	May 25, 2014	[47][48]
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest (2003-2010)	15 years old	Ming Kipa	Nepal	May 24, 2003	[49][43][50]
Youngest woman up to Summit Everest up to that time	19 years 35 days	Dicky Dolma	India	May 10, 1993	[51]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	22 years, 273 days	Kim Soon-Jo	Korea	May 10, 1993
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	24 years, 215 days	Santosh Yadav	India	May 12, 1992
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	27 years 5 days	Lydia Bradey	New Zealand	October 14, 1988	[52][23]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	29 year 2 days	Sharon Wood	Canada	May 20, 1986	[23]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	30 years 28 days	Bachendri Pal	India	May 23, 1984	[23]
First (so both the youngest and oldest) woman to summit	35 years 236 days	Junko Tabei	Japan	May 16, 1975	[53][23]

See also

• Nimdoma Sherpa
• Samantha Larson
• Nima Chhamzi Sherpa, summited May 19, 2012 at the age of 16^[54]

First …

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
First climbers confirmed as having reached the summit		Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay	New Zealand,    Nepal	May 29, 1953
First ascent without supplemental oxygen		Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler	Italy,  Austria	May 8, 1978
First solo ascent without supplemental oxygen		Reinhold Messner	Italy	August 20, 1980
First paraglider descent from summit		Jean-Marc Boivin	France	September 26, 1988	[55]
First to descend on a snowboard		Marco Siffredi	France	May , 2001
First winter ascent		Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy	Poland	February 17, 1980
First woman to reach the summit		Junko Tabei	Japan	May 16, 1975	[53]
First female ascent without supplemental oxygen		Lydia Bradey	New Zealand	October 14, 1988	[56]
First person to reach the summit from three different routes (South Col., North Face and Khangshung Face)		Kushang Sherpa	India	1993- 2003	[57] [58]
First two people to marry on top of Mount Everest		Pem Dorjee and Moni Mulepati	Nepal	May 30, 2005	[59]
First twins to climb Mount Everest together		Tashi and Nungshi Malik	India	May 19, 2013	[60]

Disabled or diseased summiters

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Amputated foot	Summited Everest	Tom Whittaker	United States	May 27, 1998	[61]
Blind	Summited Everest	Erik Weihenmayer	United States	May 25, 2001
Left arm amputated	Summited Everest	Gary Guller	United States	May 23, 2003	[62]
Double leg amputee	Summited Everest	Mark Inglis	New Zealand	May 15, 2006
With no fingers	Summited Everest	Kim Hong-Bin	South Korea	May 16, 2007	[63][64]
Double arm amputee	Summited Everest	Sudarshan Gautam	Nepal Canada	May 20, 2013	[65][66]
Female amputee (1 leg)	Summited Everest	Arunima Sinha	India	May 21, 2013	[67]
Insulin dependent Diabetic	Summited Everest	Geri Winkler	Austria	May 20, 2006	[68][69]
Type I Diabetes	Summited Everest	Will Cross	United States	May 23, 2006	[70][71][72]
Multiple sclerosis	Summited Everest	Lori Schneider	United States	May 23, 2009	[73][74]
Wegener's granulomatosis and partially blind	Summited Everest	Cindy Abbott	United States	May 23, 2010	[75][76]
Crohn's disease and ostomy	Summited South Summit of Everest	Rob Hill	Canada	May 25, 2010	[77][78]
Cancer survivor (Hodgkins disease and Askin's sarcoma); 1 lung	Summit	Sean Swarner	United States	May 16, 2002	[79][80]

Other

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Highest of rotorcraft landing and take-off	8848m	Didier Delsalle	France	May, 2005	[81]

• Elizabeth Hawley, has kept records for Everest from 1960s to at least 2015.^[82]
• Marc Kopp was the first disabled person to skydive over Mount Everest, in 2013;he suffers from multiple sclerosis.^[83]

Nepali records

Chhurim summited twice in May 2012, the first woman to summit twice in a season

Many Mount Everest records are held by Nepali, especially those from the Sherpa region who are synonymous with hospitality, hard-work, and brave alpenism.

• On 11 May 2011, Apa Sherpa successfully reached the summit of Everest for the twenty-first time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents.^[84] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29.^[85]
• One of the most famous Nepalese female mountaineers was Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali female climber to reach the summit of Everest, but who died during the descent. Another well-known woman Sherpa was the two-time Everest summiter Pemba Doma Sherpa, who died after falling from Lhotse on 22 May 2007.^[86]

Another examples of noted Nepali Everest mountaineers:

• Temba Tsheri
• Nima Chhamzi Sherpa
• Nimdoma Sherpa
• Ming Kipa
• Chhurim

About names: Many Nepalese are only given one name, and are often named for a day of the week

Everest camps' records

Records for non-summits such about the main Nepal-side Base camp

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Fastest Run from Everest Base Camp to KTM (Kathmandu)	63 hours 8 minutes	Lizzy Hawker (UK)	United Kingdom	Apr 21, 2013
Fastest trek Lukla > Everest base camp > Lukla	Nov 7 - Nov 11 2013 (>5days)	Team Jayaraman (HariPrasad/Subash/SreeVidhya)	India	Nov 11, 2013
Youngest person to trek to Everest Base Camp (Nepal)	5 years old	Harshit Saumitra	India	October 2014	[87]

Some examples of Everest related marathons that may start at Base camp or near Everst include the Everest Marathon, Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon, and the Mount Everest Challenge Marathon.^[88]

Deadliest events at Everest

Died	Date	Notes / Ref
18-22	2015	2015 Mount Everest avalanches[89]
16	2014	2014 Mount Everest avalanche[90]
8-12	1996	1996 Mount Everest disaster
6	1974	1974 French Mount Everest expedition avalanche[91]
6	1970	1970 Mount Everest disaster

Northern panoramic view of Everest from below the Gyatso La on the Friendship Highway between Lhatse and Shelkar

Another very deadly event was in 1995, when 42 perished near Everest in a large avalanche.^[92][93]

Statistics

A 2013 article in National Geographic noted 19,121 people above a base camp and 6,206 Everest summits up to the year 2012.^[94] An example of statistics is that first German woman to summit mount Everest and survive, was Helga Hengge in 1999.^[95] However, the first German (from West Germany) to make it to the summit was Hannelore Schmatz but she died on descent, getting down to about 8300 meters altitude.^[95]

Year	Summiters	Deaths	Notes
2012	547	☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠ (10)	[94]
2013	658	☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠(8)	[96]
2014	106	☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠(19)	[97]
2015	0	☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠(18)

Youngest people to die on Mount Everest

Examples of known cases^{[98][99][100]}

• Pemba Sherpa, April 25, 2015, 19^{[98][101][99]}
• Ang Chuldim, August 31, 1982, 20^[102]
• Lobsang Sherpa, May 7, 2013, 22^[103]
• Víctor Hugo Trujillo, August 16, 1986, 22^[104]
• Andrew Irvine, June 9, 1924, 22^[100]
• Marco Siffredi, September 8, 2002, 23 ^[105]
• Michael Matthews, May 13, 1999, 23^[106]

Named corpses

• "The German Woman", Hannelore Schmatz^[95]
• "Green Boots", possibly Tsewang Paljor^[107]
• "Sleeping Beauty" Francys Arsentiev^[107]

Died on descent after summiting

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit but did not make it down alive

Memorial of Dimitar Ilievski, the first Macedonian to summit Everest but descending from the Mountain

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)

exampes only

• Dimitar Ilievski-Murato
• Francys Arsentiev
• Hannelore Schmatz
• Hristo Prodanov
• Jozef Psotka
• Lobsang Tshering
• Marco Siffredi
• Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
• Ray Genet
• Tomas Olsson
• Vitor Negrete
• Yasuko Namba

Notes

1.^a Kazi Sherpa used supplemental oxygen on the descent.^[108]

See also

• List of Mount Everest expeditions
• List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
• List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
• List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
• Everest Records (this is an article about a music company)
• 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster

External Links

• A History of Mt. Everest Speed Climbing Records/Claims, by Dan Howitt
• Collection of Everest records
• British Statistics
  • Deceased
• Ascent statistics CBC (goes to 2010)
• Adventure stats for age up to 2002

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