Sungdare Sherpa

Mount Everest

Sungdare Sherpa (Nepali: सुन्दरे शेर्पा) was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest. He was with Hannelore Schmatz when she died on a 1979 expedition.[1] He remained with her after she died, and as a result, lost most of his fingers and toes to frostbite.[2] He summitted Mount Everest five times.[3] He drowned in a river below his village, Pangboche, in 1989.[4]

Elizabeth Hawley stated that he was suffering from alcoholism, and that his death was a suicide.[5] He was survived by his widow, Bhingfuti.[4]

As quoted in an article in Backpacker magazine talking about Mount Everest:[6]

The Summit is always different. Sometimes it is one side and sometimes the other. It changes every time.

Sungdare Sherpa, 1986[6]

Everest summitings

  1. 1979[6]
  2. 1981[6] October summiting[7]
  3. 1982[6] October summiting[7]
  4. 1985[6][7][8]
  5. 1988[8]

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