List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) is the world's highest mountain and 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 summiters greatly increased when ascending the mountain became more accessible and more popular. By 2013, 6,871 summits had been recorded by 4,042 different people.[2]
1950s
Only six people summited Mount Everest in the 1950s:[1]
- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953 (1953 British Mount Everest expedition)
- Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet on May 23, 1956[3]
- Dolf Reist and Hans-Rudolf von Gunten on May 24, 1957[3]
1960s
In total, 18 people summited in the 1960s.[4] These are some of the most notable ascents:
- Jim Whittaker and Nawang Gombu on May 1, 1963[5][6]
- Tom Hornbein, Willi Unsoeld,[6] Lute Jerstad and Barry Bishop on May 22, 1963[7]
- Nawang Gombu and 8 others (Indian Expedition) on May 20, 1965[8]
1970s
In total, 78 people summited in the 1970s.[1] These are some of the most notable ascents:
- 4 summited via South Col on the Saburo Matsukata 1970 expedition:[9]
- Teruo Matsuura[10]
- Naomi Uemura[10]
- Katsutoshi Hirabayashi[10]
- Chottare Sherpa[10]
- Junko Tabei and Sherpa Ang Tshering I on May 16, 1975[11][12]
- Phanthog on May 27, 1975[10]
- Doug Scott and Dougal Haston on September 24, 1975 (1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition)
- Peter Boardman and Sirdar Pertemba Sherpa on September 26, 1975[13]
- Brummie Stokes and Bronco Lane[14] on May 16, 1976[15] (1976 British Army expedition)
- Ko Sang-don and Pemba Norbu Sherpa on Sept 15, 1977[10]
- Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler on 8 May 1978 (first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen)[16]
- Sixteen people summited in October 1978 as part of the Franco-Deutsch expedition led by Dr. Karl Herrligkoffer:[10]
- Hubert Hillmaier
- Sepp Mack (without supplementary oxygen)
- Hans Engl
- Pierre Mazeaud
- Nicolas Jaeger
- Kurt Diemberger
- Jean Afanassief
- Wanda Rutkiewicz
- Robert Allenbach
- Siegfried Hupfauer
- Wilhelm Klimek
- Ang Dorje (without supplementary oxygen)
- Mingma Sherpa (without supplementary oxygen)
- Ang Kami
- George Ritter
- Berndt Kullmann
- Sungdare Sherpa on 2 October 1979[12]
- Andrej Štremfelj and Nejc Zaplotnik on May 13, 1979
- Stipe Božić, Stane Belak and Sherpa Ang Phu on May 15, 1979
1980s
In the 1980s, 871 climbers set off from Base Camp; around 180 made the summit; and 56 died.[1][17] Overall about 356 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 1989.[1][18] These are some of the most notable notable ascents of the 1980s:
- Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki on February 17, 1980[19]
- Takashi Ozaki and Tsuneo Shigehiro on May 10, 1980[20]
- Martin Zabaleta and Pasang Temba on May 14, 1980[21]
- Reinhold Messner on August 20, 1980[16]
- Yasuo Kato[12][22]
- Eleven Soviet climbers in 1982[23]
- Laurie Skreslet and two Sherpas on October 5, 1982
- Pat Morrow on October 7, 1982[24]
- Yasuo Kato and c Toshiaki Kobayashi[22]
- Lou Reichardt, Kim Momb, and Carlos Buhler on October 8, 1983[19]
- Dan Reid, George Lowe and Jay Cassell on October 9, 1983[19]
- Takashi Ozaki in December 1983 [25]
- Hristo Prodanov on April 20, 1984
- Metodi Savov and Ivan Valchev on May 8, 1984[26]
- Nikolay Petkov and Kiril Doskov on May 9, 1984[26]
- Bachendri Pal on May 23, 1984[19]
- Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer on October 3, 1984
- Phil Ershle on October 2, 1984[27]
- Zoltán Demján, Jozef Psotka and Sherpa Ang Rita on October 15, 1984
- 1985 Norwegian Expedition led by Arne Naess, in April 1985[28]
- 1985 Spanish Expedition in August 1985[28]
- Erhard Loretan and Jean Troillet in 1986
- Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon on May 20, 1986
- Jean-Marc Boivin's[29] 11-12 minute, 2,948 metres (9,700 ft)* descent to Camp II holds the altitude record for start of a paraglider flight[30]
- Marc Batard in 1988[31]
- A joint team from China, Japan, and Nepal on May 5, 1988[32]
- Stephen Venables on May 12 1988[33]
- Stacy Allison on September 29, 1988[19]
- Lydia Bradey on 16 October 1988
- Sungdare Sherpa on 10 May 1988[12]
- Stipe Bozic, Viki Groselj, Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, and Sherpas Sonam and Agiva on May 10, 1989[34]
- Ricardo Torres-Nava and Sherpas, Ang Lhakpa and Dorje on May 16, 1989[35]
- Carlos Carsolio on July 18, 1989
1990s
In the 1990s, 3,017 people set off from Base Camp(s); around 900 reached the summit; 55 died.[1][18] 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 by Jim Whittaker:[36]
- Robert Link
- Steve Gall
- Sergei Arsentiev
- Grigori Lunyakov
- Da Cheme
- Gyal Bu
- Ed Viesturs
- Mistislav Gorbenko
- Andrej Tselishchev
- Ian Wade
- Da Qiong
- Luo Tse
- Ren Na
- Gui Sang
- Yekaterina Ivanova
- Anatoli Moshnikov
- Yervand Ilyinski
- Aleksandr Tokarev
- Mark Tucker
- Wang Ja
- Marc Batard on October 5, 1990[37]
- Marija and Andrej Štremfelj on October 7, 1990
- Peter Hillary, Gary Ball and Rob Hall in 1990[38]
- Tim Macartney-Snape in 1990[39]
- Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal in 1992[40]
- Alberto Iñurrategi on 25.09.1992 [41]
- Rodrigo Jordan team in 1992
- Mauricio Purto team in 1992
- Cristian Garcia-Huidobro at 10:25 on May 15, 1992
- Doron Erel in 1992
- Santosh Yadav in May 1992
- Mohan Singh Gunjyal on 12 May 1992[42][43]
- Kushang Sherpa on May 10, 1993[44]
- Santosh Yadav and Dicky Dolma in May 1993[45]
- Veikka Gustafsson in spring 1993
- Pasang Lhamu Sherpa on April 22, 1993[46]
- Steve Bell on October 7 1993
- Graham Hoyland on October 7 1993
- Ginette Harrison on October 7 1993
- Gary Pfisterer
- Scott McIvor
- Ramón Blanco on October 7, 1993[46]
- Santosh Yadav on May 10, 1993
- Park Young-seok on May 16, 1993
- Ninety commercial alpinists in the spring of 1993
- Alison Hargreaves in 1995
- Caradog Jones on May 23, 1995[47]
- Pat Falvey on 27 May 1995
- Kiyoshi Furuno and Shigeki Imoto in 1995[22]
- 1996 Mount Everest disaster
- Rob Hall (with Adventure Consultants)
- Scott Fischer (with Mountain Madness)
- Doug Hansen
- Makalu Gau
- Lene Gammelgaard
- Yasuko Namba
- Göran Kropp n May 1996, without oxygen
- David Breashears team including Jamling Tenzing Norgay Ed Viesturs Araceli Segarra (see also the 1998 film Everest)
- Sherpa Ang Rita summited ten times between 7 May 1983 and 23 May 1996
- Hans Kammerlander 1996
- Kushang Sherpa on May 17, 1996[44]
- Tom Whittaker 1998[48]
- Kushang Sherpa on May 28, 1998[44]
- Kazi Sherpa (aka Kaji Sherpa) on October 17, 1998[37][49][50][51][52]
- Kushang Sherpa on May 28, 1999, until date summited from three sides of Mount Everest[44][53]
- Sherpa Babu Chiri Sherpa in 1999[54]
- Phurba Tashi Sherpa[55][56]
- Cathy O'Dowd in 1999
- Elsa Ávila on May 5, 1999 [57]
- Renata Chlumska on May 5, 1999 [58]
- Ken Noguchi on May 13, 1999
- Iván Vallejo on May 25, 1999[59]
- Mamuka Tsikhiseli, Merab Khabazi, and Irakli Ugulava on May 26, 1999[60]
- Lev Sarkisov on May 12, 1999
- Willie Benegas in 1999[61]
- George Dijmarescu on May 26, 1999[62]
2000
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 notable ascents in 2000:
- Nazir Sabir on May 17, 2000
- Toshio Yamamoto, summited at age 63[63]
- Babu Chiri Sherpa on May 21, 2000[37]
- Anna Czerwińska on May 22, 2000[64]
- Davo Karničar on October 7, 2000[65][66]
- McKinley Hawkins on November 26, 2008
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
- List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
External links
- EverestHistory.com Summits by year, until 2004
- Count of Mount Everest summiteers until the end of 2001
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