The eight-thousander

Eight-thousander

The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent mountains on Earth that are more than high above sea level. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia....

s are the fourteen mountain

Mountain

Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

s that rise more than 8000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level

Sea level

Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...

; they are all in the Himalayan

Himalayas

The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...

 and Karakoram

Karakoram

The Karakoram, or Karakorum , is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan , Ladakh , and Xinjiang region,...

 mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

s.

This is a list of mountaineers

Mountaineering

Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

 who have died on these mountains.

Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...

 

Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...

 has been host to a number of tragedies. The most notable occurred in 1922, 1970

1970 Everest Disaster

On the 5th April 1970, an ice-fall avalanche hit a party of sherpas resulting in six deaths . The list of fatalities include:* Nima Dorje* Tshering Tarkey* Pasang* Kunga Norbu* Kami Tshering...

, 1974

1974 Everest Disaster

On 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct was attempted by a French expedition which resulted in tragedy. All of the six climbers died in an avalanche on the way to the Summit, and were the 31-36th deaths on Everest .The team consisted of:* Gerard Devouassoux...

 and 1996

1996 Everest Disaster

The 1996 Mount Everest disaster refers to the events of 10-11 May 1996, when eight people died on Mount Everest during summit attempts. In the entire season, fifteen people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest single year in Mount Everest's history...

.

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
21 May 2011	John Delaney John Delaney (businessman) John Delaney was an Irish businessman and the founder and CEO of the trading exchange website Intrade. He died at the age of 42 while attempting to climb Mount Everest—a lifelong ambition—and came within 50 metres of the summit. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter who was born...	Republic of Ireland	Altitude sickness Altitude sickness Altitude sickness—also known as acute mountain sickness , altitude illness, hypobaropathy, or soroche—is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude...
12 May 2011	Taskahi Ozaki		Altitude sickness
9 May 2011	Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya was a Nepali politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nepal from 1986 to 1990. He was Nepal's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1972 to 1978....		Age
1 May 2011	Rick Hitch		Heart attack
26 May 2010	Peter Kinloch		Frostbite Frostbite Frostbite is the medical condition where localized damage is caused to skin and other tissues due to extreme cold. Frostbite is most likely to happen in body parts farthest from the heart and those with large exposed areas...  and exhaustion
Hiroshi Ogasawara		-
19 May 2010	Tom Jørgensen		-
26 April 2010	Laszlo Varkonyi		Avalanche
16 June 2009	Andres Guzman Garza		-	-
21 May 2009	Frank Ziebarth		-	-
19 May 2009	Wenhong Wu	Mainland China	-	-
18 May 2009	Veslav Chrzaszcz		Heart attack
7 May 2009	Lhakpa Nuru		-
21 May 2008	Uwe Gianni Goltz	Switzerland	-
17 May 2007	Maurizio Pierangelo		-
17 May 2007	Oh Hee-Joon		-
17 May 2007	Lee Hyun-Jo		-
16 May 2007	Yoshitomi Okura		-	-
16 May 2007	Libor Kozak		-	-
16 May 2007	Yasuhiko Mochizuki		-	-
15 May 2007	Shinichi Ishii		-	-
26 April 2007	Dawa Sherpa		Avalanche
25 May 2006	Thomas Weber		-	-
22 May 2006	Igor Plyushkin		-
19 May 2006	Vitor Negrete Vitor Negrete Vitor Negrete was a prominent mountaineer and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak outside Asia and one of the Seven Summits, from its south face....		-	-
17 May 2006	Jacques-Hugues Letrange		-
16 May 2006	Tomas Olsson		-
15 May 2006	David Sharp		Exposure	-
14 May 2006	Sri Krishan		-	-
21 April 2006	Ang Phinjo		-	-
21 April 2006	Lhakkpa Tseri		-	-
21 April 2006	Dawa Temba		-	-
4 April 2006	Tuk Bahadur Thapa Masar		-
5 June 2005	Robert William Milne		-
4 June 2005	Dieter Kramer		-
30 May 2005	Sirigereshiva Shankarappa Chaitanya		-
21 May 2005	Marko Lihteneker Marko Lihteneker Marko Lihteneker was a Slovenian ski mountaineer and mountain climber.Lihteneker, at this time member of the GRS Celje took part in the 2004 World Championship of Skimountaineering in Aran Valley, where he placed sixth in the relay race event together with Tone Karničar, Žiga Karničar and Jernej...		-
2 May 2005	Michael Corey O'Brien		Fall from the Khumbu Icefall
29 April 2005	Sean Egan		-
24 May 2004	Mariana Prodanova Maslarova		-
23 May 2004	Shoko Ota		-
20 May 2004	Hristo Ganchev Hristov		-
18 May 2004	Nils Antezana		-
18 May 2004	Joon-Ho Baek	South Korea	-
18 May 2004	Min Jang	South Korea	-
18 May 2004	Mu-Taek Park	South Korea	-	,
27 May 2003	Bhim Bahagur Gurung		-	-
25 May 2003	Jan Krzysztof Liszewski		-	-
24 May 2003	Karma Gylzen		-
8 May 2003	Amaud Saulnier	Early Modern France	-	-
8 September 2002	Marco Siffredi Marco Siffredi Marco Siffredi was a French snowboarder and mountaineer. He was the first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard in 2001 via the Norton Couloir...	Early Modern France	Fall with snowboard
May 2002	Zoran Miletic		-
30 April 2002	Peter Legate		-
20 October 2001	Sándor Gárdos		-
24 May 2001	Mark Auricht		HACE
24 May 2001	Alexei Nikiforov		-
23 May 2001	Peter Ganner	Austria	-
29 April 2001	Babu Chiri Sherpa Babu Chiri Sherpa Babu Chiri Sherpa was a Sherpa mountaineer from Nepal. He was a legendary guide who reached the summit of Mount Everest ten times. He held 2 world records on Everest...		Fall into crevasse
21 May 2000	Yan Gen-hua		-
20 May 2000	Jeppe Stoltz	Denmark	-
18 May 1999	Tadeusz Kudelski		-
18 May 1999	Pascal Debrouwer		Snow blizzard - Fall
13 May 1999	Mike Matthews		-
8 May 1999	Vasili Kopytko		-
26 May 1998	Roger Buick		-
25 May 1998	Mark Jennings		-
24 May 1998	Francys Arsentiev Francys Arsentiev Francys Arsentiev became the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen, on May 22, 1998.-Biography:...		exhaustion - Altitude sickness Altitude sickness Altitude sickness—also known as acute mountain sickness , altitude illness, hypobaropathy, or soroche—is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude...
24 May 1998	Sergei Arsentiev Francys Arsentiev Francys Arsentiev became the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen, on May 22, 1998.-Biography:...		Fall
8 September 1997	Choi Byong-Soo	South Korea	-
25 May 1997	Tenzing Nuru		-
8 May 1997	Peter Kowalzik		-
7 May 1997	Aleksandr Toroschin		-
7 May 1997	Ivan Plotnikov		-
7 May 1997	Nikolai Shevtchenko		-
7 May 1997	Mingma		-
6 May 1997	Nima Rinzi		-
23 April 1997	Malcolm Duff		-
25 September 1996	Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa was a Sherpa mountaineering guide, climber and porter, perhaps best known for his work as the climbing Sirdar for Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness expedition to Everest in Spring 1996, when a freak storm led to the deaths of eight climbers from several expeditions, considered...		Avalanche
25 September 1996	Dawa Sherpa		Avalanche
25 September 1996	Ives Bouchon		Avalanche
6 June 1996	Ngawang Topche Sherpa		HAPE
25 May 1996	Bruce Herrod		-
19 May 1996	Reinhard Wlasich	Austria	HAPE / HACE
11 May 1996	Dorje Morup Dorje Morup Dorje Morup was one among three Indians who died on Mount Everest in 1996 Mount Everest disaster.He was born on 01 Oct 1948 in village Skurbuchan in district Leh . He joined ITBP as a constable in 1969. Climed Mt. Everest from North Col on 10 May 1996 to become member of the First Indian team to...		Exposure/Frostbite
11 May 1996	Tsewang Paljor		Exposure/Frostbite
11 May 1996	Subedar Tsewang Samanla Tsewang Samanla T.Samanla was one among three Indians who died on Mount Everest in 1996 Mount Everest disaster. He was born on 14 Sept 1957 in village Tia , District Khalsi in Leh . He joined ITBP as a constable in 1969. Climed Mt. Everest from North Col on 10 May 1996 to become member of the First Indian team to...		Exposure/Frostbite
11 May 1996	Rob Hall Rob Hall Rob Hall , a native of New Zealand, was a mountaineer best known for being head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition in which he, a fellow guide, and two clients perished. A best-selling account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air...		Exposure/Frostbite
11 May 1996	Scott Fischer Scott Fischer Scott E. Fischer was an American climber and guide, and the first American to summit 27,940-foot Lhotse, fourth highest mountain in the world.-Career:...		Exposure/Frostbite
11 May 1996	Yasuko Namba Yasuko Namba was famous in her native Japan for becoming the second Japanese woman to reach all of the Seven Summits including Everest, where she died. Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world. She first summitted Kilimanjaro...		Exposure/Frostbite/Exhaustion
10 May 1996	Andrew Harris		Fall
10 May 1996	Doug Hansen		Exposure/Frostbite
9 May 1996	Chen Yu Nan	Republic of China	-
14 October 1995	Zangbu		-
10 September 1995	Lhakpa Nuru		-
6 May 1995	Kami Rita		-
12 September 1994	Mingma Norbu		-
27 May 1994	Mike Rheinberger		HACE
18 May 1994	Giuseppe Vigani		-
9 May 1994	Shih Fang-Fang	Thailand	-
6 April 1994	Prem Thapa		-
7 October 1993	Antonio Miranda	Spain	-
5 October 1993	Karl Henize		-
17 May 1993	An Jin-Seob	South Korea	-
16 May 1993	Nam Won-Woo	South Korea	-
10 May 1993	Lobsang Tshering Lobsang Tshering Lobsang Tshering Bhutia was a Sherpa mountaineer who died on Mount Everest.He was a nephew of Tenzing Norgay who first climbed the mountain in 1953. He was part of an expedition to Everest led by his nephew Tashi Tenzing. He reached the summit but was killed on the descent.-External links:* on...		-	-
23 April 1993	Pasang Lhamu		-
23 April 1993	Sonam Tshering		-
15 January 1993	Ang Tshering		-
23 May 1992	Manabu Hoshi		-
22 May 1992	Sher Singh		-
11 May 1992	Subba Singh		-
2 May 1992	Deepak Kulkarni		-
2 May 1992	Raymond Jacob		-
27 May 1991	Junichi Futagami		-
3 May 1991	Rüdiger Lang		-
7 October 1990	Ham Sang-Hun	South Korea	-
12 September 1990	Rafael Gómez-Menor	Spain	-
12 September 1990	Ang Sona		-
12 September 1990	Badrinath Ghising		-
12 December 1989	Ang Pinjo		-
28 May 1989	Eugeniusz Chrobak		-
27 May 1989	Mirosław Dąsal		-
27 May 1989	Mirosław Gardzielewski		-
27 May 1989	Andrzej Heinrich Andrzej Heinrich Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich was a famous Polish mountaineer. He died in an avalanche on the NW slopes of Mount Everest in 1989.- Tatra Mts and Alps :...		-
27 May 1989	Wacław Otręba		-
16 May 1989	Phu Dorje (III)		-
10 May 1989	Dimitar Ilievski Murato Dimitar Ilievski - Murato Dimitar Ilievski - Murato was an alpinist from the Republic of Macedonia representing SFR Yugoslavia, the first Macedonian ever to climb the highest peak of the world, Mount Everest. He died on the descent of Mt...	Republic of Macedonia	-	-
23 December 1988	Ang Lhakpa Dorje		-
17 October 1988	Jozef Just	Czechoslovakia	-
17 October 1988	Peter Božík	Czechoslovakia	-
17 October 1988	Dušan Becík	Czechoslovakia	-
17 October 1988	Jaroslav Jaško	Czechoslovakia	-
13 October 1988	Lhakpa Sonam		-
13 October 1988	Pasang Temba (II)		-
21 September 1988	Narayan Shrestha		-
20 September 1988	Michel Parmentier		-
21 April 1988	Hidetaka Mizukoshi		-
20 October 1987	Mangal Singh		-
2 September 1987	Masao Yokoyama		-
21 May 1987	Roger Marshall		-
30 January 1987	Tsuttin Dorje		-
17 October 1986	Dawa Norbu		-
4 October 1986	Gyalu		-
28 September 1986	Simon Burkhardt	Switzerland	-
16 August 1986	Víctor Hugo Trujillo	Chile	-
11 October 1985	Capt Vijay Pal Singh Negi (Indian Army)		Exposure
11 October 1985	Lt Ranjeet Singh Bakshi (Indian Army)		Exposure
11 October 1985	Maj Jai Bahugana (Indian Army)		Exposure and frostbite
11 October 1985	Lt M.U. Bhaskar Rao (Indian Army)		Exposure
7 October 1985	Maj Kiran Inder Kumar (Indian Army)		Fall
17 September 1985	Shinichi Ishii		-
12 May 1985	Juanjo Navarro	Spain	-
24 October 1984	Ang Dorje		-
24 October 1984	Yogendra Thapa		-
16 October 1984	Jozef Psotka Jozef Psotka Jozef Psotka, was a Slovak mountaineer, at that time the oldest person in the world who reached the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen.-Biography:...	Slovakia	-	-
9 October 1984	Craig Nottle		Fall
9 October 1984	Fred From		Fall
21 April 1984	Hristo Prodanov Hristo Prodanov Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....	Kingdom of Bulgaria	-	-
3 April 1984	Tony Swierzy		-
26 March 1984	Ang Rinji		-
9 October 1983	Hiroshi Yoshino		-
8 October 1983	Pasang Temba		-	-
8 October 1983	Hironobu Kamuro		-
28 December 1982	Yasuo Kato		-	,
28 December 1982	Toshiaki Kobayashi		-
14 October 1982	Nima Dorje		-
27 September 1982	Lhakpa Tshering		-
2 September 1982	Blair Griffiths		-
31 August 1982	Pasang Sona		-	-
31 August 1982	Ang Chuldim		-
31 August 1982	Dawa Dorje		-
17 May 1982	Peter Boardman Peter Boardman Peter Boardman was a British climber, Everest summiteer, and author of several mountaineering books.-Early life:...		-	-
17 May 1982	Joe Tasker Joe Tasker Joe Tasker was one of the most talented British climbers during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Born into a traditional Roman Catholic family, he was one of ten children and spent his early childhood in Port Clarence, Middlesbrough then attended Ushaw Seminary, County Durham between the ages of 13...		-	-
15 May 1982	Marty Hoey Marty Hoey Marty Hoey was a mountain climber who took part in the 1982 expedition to Mount Everest. During an attempted ascent that would have made her the first American woman to summit Everest, she plunged over the edge of the Great Couloir and died. The cause of her death was an unsecured climbing...		-	-
12 January 1981	Noboru Takenaka		-
22 September 1980	Mario Piana		-
6 September 1980	Nawang Kersang		-
2 May 1980	Akira Ube		-
12 October 1979	Wang Hong-Bao	Mainland China	Avalanche
12 October 1979	Luo San	Mainland China	Avalanche
12 October 1979	Nima Tashi	Mainland China	Avalanche
3 October 1979	Ray Genet		Exhaustion
3 October 1979	Hannelore Schmatz Hannelore Schmatz Hannelore Schmatz was a West German mountain climber. She died of exhaustion on October 2, 1979 as she was returning from successfully summiting Mount Everest via the southern route, the first woman and first German citizen to die on the upper slopes of "Chomolungma."Schmatz was on an expedition...		Exhaustion
16 May 1979	Ang Phu		Fall
May 1978	Shi Ming-ji	Mainland China	Altitude sickness
18 April 1978	Dawa Nuru		Crevasse (icefall)
10 April 1976	Terry Thompson		Crevasse
26 September 1975	Mick Burke Mick Burke (mountaineer) Mick Burke was an English mountaineer and climbing cameraman, who covered many British-led mountaineering expeditions during the 1960s and 1970s. These included expeditions led by Chris Bonington to Annapurna and an unsuccessful attempt on Mount Everest's south-west face in 1972.Burke was part of...		Fall
4 May 1975	Wu Tseng-yue (Zhuong-Yue)	Mainland China	Fall
9 September 1974 1974 Everest Disaster On 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct was attempted by a French expedition which resulted in tragedy. All of the six climbers died in an avalanche on the way to the Summit, and were the 31-36th deaths on Everest .The team consisted of:* Gerard Devouassoux...	Gérard Devouassoux		Avalanche
9 September 1974 1974 Everest Disaster On 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct was attempted by a French expedition which resulted in tragedy. All of the six climbers died in an avalanche on the way to the Summit, and were the 31-36th deaths on Everest .The team consisted of:* Gerard Devouassoux...	Lhakpa		Avalanche
9 September 1974 1974 Everest Disaster On 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct was attempted by a French expedition which resulted in tragedy. All of the six climbers died in an avalanche on the way to the Summit, and were the 31-36th deaths on Everest .The team consisted of:* Gerard Devouassoux...	Sanu Wongal		Avalanche
9 September 1974 1974 Everest Disaster On 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct was attempted by a French expedition which resulted in tragedy. All of the six climbers died in an avalanche on the way to the Summit, and were the 31-36th deaths on Everest .The team consisted of:* Gerard Devouassoux...	Pemba Dorje		Avalanche
9 September 1974 1974 Everest Disaster On 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct was attempted by a French expedition which resulted in tragedy. All of the six climbers died in an avalanche on the way to the Summit, and were the 31-36th deaths on Everest .The team consisted of:* Gerard Devouassoux...	Nawang Lutuk		Avalanche
9 September 1974 1974 Everest Disaster On 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct was attempted by a French expedition which resulted in tragedy. All of the six climbers died in an avalanche on the way to the Summit, and were the 31-36th deaths on Everest .The team consisted of:* Gerard Devouassoux...	Nima Wangchu		Avalanche
12 October 1973	Jangbu		Avalanche
16 November 1972	Tony Tighe		Serac collapse
18 April 1971	Capt Harsh Bahuguna (Indian Army)		Exposure and frostbite
21 April 1970	Kiyoshi Narita		Illness
9 April 1970	Kyak Tshering		Icefall collapse
5 April 1970 1970 Everest Disaster On the 5th April 1970, an ice-fall avalanche hit a party of sherpas resulting in six deaths . The list of fatalities include:* Nima Dorje* Tshering Tarkey* Pasang* Kunga Norbu* Kami Tshering...	Mima Norbu		Avalanche (icefall collapse)
5 April 1970 1970 Everest Disaster On the 5th April 1970, an ice-fall avalanche hit a party of sherpas resulting in six deaths . The list of fatalities include:* Nima Dorje* Tshering Tarkey* Pasang* Kunga Norbu* Kami Tshering...	Nima Dorje		Avalanche (icefall collapse)
5 April 1970 1970 Everest Disaster On the 5th April 1970, an ice-fall avalanche hit a party of sherpas resulting in six deaths . The list of fatalities include:* Nima Dorje* Tshering Tarkey* Pasang* Kunga Norbu* Kami Tshering...	Tshering Tarkey		Avalanche (icefall collapse)
5 April 1970 1970 Everest Disaster On the 5th April 1970, an ice-fall avalanche hit a party of sherpas resulting in six deaths . The list of fatalities include:* Nima Dorje* Tshering Tarkey* Pasang* Kunga Norbu* Kami Tshering...	Pasang		Avalanche (icefall collapse)
5 April 1970 1970 Everest Disaster On the 5th April 1970, an ice-fall avalanche hit a party of sherpas resulting in six deaths . The list of fatalities include:* Nima Dorje* Tshering Tarkey* Pasang* Kunga Norbu* Kami Tshering...	Kunga Norbu		Avalanche (icefall collapse)
5 April 1970 1970 Everest Disaster On the 5th April 1970, an ice-fall avalanche hit a party of sherpas resulting in six deaths . The list of fatalities include:* Nima Dorje* Tshering Tarkey* Pasang* Kunga Norbu* Kami Tshering...	Kami Tshering		Avalanche (icefall collapse)
18 October 1969	Phu Dorje		Crevasse (collapsed snow bridge)
May 1966	Ma Gao-Shu	Mainland China	Fall
23 March 1963	Jake Breitenbach		Icefall collapse
28 April 1962	Nawang Tshering		Falling rocks
29 April 1960 or Spring 1964	Shao Shi-Ching	Mainland China	Hearth Attack or HACE	Year and cause of death differ according to different sources
11 April 1960	Wang Ji	Mainland China	HAPE
31 October 1952	Mingma Dorje		Falling rock/ice
June 1934	Maurice Wilson Maurice Wilson Maurice Wilson MC was a British soldier, mystic, mountaineer and aviator who is known for his ill-fated attempt to climb Mount Everest alone in 1934. Often characterised as "eccentric", he wished to climb Everest as a platform to promote his belief that the world's ills could be solved by a...		Exposure / Frostbite
8/9 June 1924	Andrew Irvine Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) Andrew "Sandy" Comyn Irvine was an English mountaineer who took part in 1924 British Everest Expedition, the third British expedition to the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest....		Disappearance
8/9 June 1924	George Mallory George Mallory George Herbert Leigh Mallory was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s....		Fall
25 May 1924	Man Bahadur		Exposure / Frostbite
13 May 1924	Shamsher Pun		AMS / Frostbite
7 June 1922	Norbu	British India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...	Avalanche
7 June 1922	Lhakpa	British India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...	Avalanche
7 June 1922	Pasang	British India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...	Avalanche
7 June 1922	Pema	British India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...	Avalanche
7 June 1922	Sange	British India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...	Avalanche
7 June 1922	Dorje	British India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...	Avalanche
7 June 1922	Temba	British India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...	Avalanche
30 June 1921	Unknown porter	British India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...	Illness
5 June 1921	Alexander Mitchell Kellas		Illness

K2

K2

K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
6 August 2010	Fredrik "Frippe" Ericsson Fredrik Ericsson Fredrik Ericsson was a Swedish mountaineer and extreme skier.He grew up in Umeå in the northern part of Sweden, but spent most of his time in Chamonix, in the French Alps.-History:...		Fall
17 July 2010	Petar Georgiev Unzhiev		Altitude sickness Altitude sickness Altitude sickness—also known as acute mountain sickness , altitude illness, hypobaropathy, or soroche—is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude...
23 June 2009	Michele Fait		Fall with skis
2 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Dong-Jin Hwang		Fourth serac Serac A serac is a block or column of ice formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier. Often house-sized or larger, they are dangerous to mountaineers since they may topple with little warning...  fall
2 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Kyeong-Hyo Park		Fourth serac fall
2 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Hyo-Gyung Kim		Fourth serac fall
2 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Mehrban Karim		second or third serac fall
2 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Hugues d'Aubarede		Fall
2 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Gerard McDonnell		second or third serac fall
1 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Pasang Bhote		Fourth serac fall
1 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Jumic Bhote		Fourth serac fall
1 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Rolf Bae Rolf Bae Rolf Bae was a Norwegian Arctic adventurer and mountaineer. Bae operated an adventure company called Fram, specializing in Arctic and Antarctic travel and survival courses....		First serac fall
1 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Jahan Baig		Fall
1 August 2008 2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on August 1, 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.-Expedition goal: K2:K2 is the...	Dren Mandić		Fall
20 July 2007	Stefano Zavka		Lost
20 July 2007	Nima Nurbu		Fall from bottle neck
13 August 2006	Arkadi Kuvakin		Avalanche
13 August 2006	Aleksandr Foigt		Avalanche
13 August 2006	Piotr Kuznetsov		Avalanche
13 August 2006	Yuri Uteshev Yuri Uteshev Yuri Uteshev was a Russian mountain climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri in 1995, Makalu in 1996, Lhotse in 1997 and Mount Everest in 2001....		Avalanche
19 August 2004	Manel de la Mata		Pulmonary edema
2 August 2004	Dauoud Khadem Asl	Iran	Lost in storm
2 August 2004	Sergei Sokolov		Lost in storm
29 July 2004	Aleksandr Gubaev		Lost in storm
8 June 2004	Kyong-Kyu Pae		Avalanche
8 June 2004	Jae-Young Kim		Avalanche
8 June 2004	Hwa-Hyeung Lee		Avalanche
21 July 2003	Klaus-Dieter Grohs		Fall
22 July 2002	Muhammad Iqbal		-
13 July 2002	Sher Ajman		-
22 July 2001	Young-Do Park		-
10 July 1999	Mihai Cioroianu		-
14 August 1996	Igor Benkin		-
29 July 1996	Lorenzo Mazzoleni		-
15 August 1995	Jeff Lakes		-
13 August 1995	Bruce Grant		Killed in a storm
13 August 1995	Rob Slater Rob Slater Rob Slater was an American mountaineer known for his first ascent of the big wall route Wyoming Sheep Ranch on El Capitan. A tireless outdoor recreationalist, Slater built up an impressive climbing resume during his college years and later as he worked as a trader on the Chicago Board of Trade...		Killed in a storm
13 August 1995	Alison Hargreaves Alison Hargreaves Alison Jane Hargreaves was an English mountain climber from Derbyshire. Educated at Belper School, her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest solo without supplementary oxygen in 1995. She also soloed all the great north faces of the Alps in a single season—a first for any climber...		Killed in a storm
13 August 1995	Javier Escartin		Killed in a storm
13 August 1995	Javier Olivar		Killed in a storm
13 August 1995	Lorenzo Ortiz		Killed in a storm
6 July 1995	Jordi Anglès		-
11 August 1994	Juan Antonio "Atxo" Apellániz		Exhaustion
24 July 1994	Steve Untch		-
10 July 1994	Dmitri Ibragim-Zade		Killed in a storm
10 July 1994	Aleksandr Parkhomenko		Killed in a storm
10 July 1994	Aleksei Kharaldin		Killed in a storm
31 July 1993	Daniel Bidner		-
30 July 1993	Reinmar Joswig		-
30 July 1993	Peter Mezger		-
7 July 1993	Dan Culver		-
17 June 1993	Boštjan Kekec		-
14 August 1992	Adrián Benítez		-
28 July 1989	Hans Bärnthaler		-
24 August 1987	Akira Suzuki		-
10 August 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Dobroslawa "Mrufka" Miodowicz-Wolf		Altitude sickness
10 August 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Alfred Imitzer		Altitude sickness
10 August 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Hannes Wieser		Altitude sickness
10 August 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Alan Rouse Alan Rouse Alan Paul Rouse was the first British climber to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the world, K2, but died on the descent.-Education:...		Altitude sickness
7 August 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Julie Tullis Julie Tullis Julie Tullis was a British climber and film-maker who died on the descent of K2 during a storm along with four other climbers from several expeditions during the 'Black Summer' of 1986.-Early life:...		Altitude sickness
4 August 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Muhammed Ali		Stonefall
3 August 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Wojciech Wróż		Fall
16 July 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Renato Casarotto		Fall
10 July 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Tadeusz Piotrowski Tadeusz Piotrowski (mountaineer) Tadeusz Piotrowski was a Polish mountaineer and author of several books related to the subject. He has been referred to as "perhaps the finest winter mountaineer of his day".-Career:...		Fall
24 June 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Maurice Barrard		Lost
24 June 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Liliane Barrard		Lost
21 June 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	John Smolich		Avalanche
21 June 1986 1986 K2 disaster The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on K2 in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths to 13....	Alan Pennington		Avalanche
7 July 1985	Daniel Lacroix		-
15 August 1982	Yukihiro Yanagisawa		-
30 July 1982	Halina Krüger-Syrokomska		-
19 August 1979	Laskhar Khan		-
9 June 1979	Ali, Son of Kazim		-
12 June 1978	Nick Estcourt Nick Estcourt Nick Estcourt , educated at Eastbourne College, was an outstanding British climber killed on K2 by an avalanche on the West Ridge route...		Avalanche
21 June 1954	Mario Puchoz		-
10 August 1953	Art Gilkey Art Gilkey Art Gilkey was an American geologist and mountaineer. He explored Alaska in 1950 and 1952. He died during a 1953 American expedition to K2. Approaching the summit of the peak, he suffered from thrombophlebitis or possibly deep venous thrombosis, followed by pulmonary embolism...		-
31 July 1939	Pasang Kikuli		-
31 July 1939	Pasang Kitar		-
31 July 1939	Pintso		-
30 July 1939	Dudley Wolfe		Altitude sickness and severe dehydration

Kangchenjunga

Kangchenjunga

Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain of the world with an elevation of and located along the India-Nepal border in the Himalayas.Kangchenjunga is also the name of the section of the Himalayas and means "The Five Treasures of Snows", as it contains five peaks, four of them over...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
25 May 2007	Iñigo de Pineda		Fall
24 May 2002	Christopher Grasswick		Fall
23 April 2000	Ang Dawa Tamang
14 September 1999	Myeong-Kun Hyun
14 September 1999	Do-Kyu Han
16 May 1998	Atsushi Shiina
16 May 1998	Kenzo Akasaka
6 October 1995	Benoît Chamoux Benoît Chamoux Benoît Chamoux was a French Alpinist, who climbed 10 of the Eight-thousanders in the Himalayas.Chamoux was born in La Roche-sur-Foron near Mont Blanc in the department of Haute-Savoie, France...
5 October 1995	Pierre Royer
5 October 1995	Sherpa Riku		Fall
23 October 1994	Iordanka Dimitrova
10 October 1994	Sergei Zhvirblya	Belarus
10 October 1994	Yekaterina Ivanova
13 May 1992	Wanda Rutkiewicz Wanda Rutkiewicz Wanda Rutkiewicz was a Polish mountain climber. She was the first woman to successfully summit K2.-Early life:Rutkiewicz was born in Plungė, Lithuania...
25 April 1992	Ang Dorje
25 April 1992	Lhakpa Nuru
16 May 1991	Pasang II		Fall
3 May 1991	Jože Rozman		Fall
3 May 1991	Marija Frantar		Fall
20 December May 1989	Tchiring Chumbi Lama		Fall (on Yalung Kang [a.k.a. Kangchenjunga West])
20 December May 1989	Ang Dawa		Fall (on Yalung Kang [a.k.a. Kangchenjunga West])
20 December May 1989	Kyo-Sup Jin		Fall (on Yalung Kang [a.k.a. Kangchenjunga West])
17 May 1988	Sanjay Borole
31 May 1987	Chander Singh		Fall
25 May 1987	Chorten Tshering
25 May 1987	Phu Pu Bhutia
25 May 1987	Phu Dorje II
11 January 1986	Andrzej Czok Andrzej Czok Andrzej Czok was a Polish mountaineer best known for the first winter ascent of Dhaulagiri on January 21, 1985 with Jerzy Kukuczka and for the first ascent of Mount Everest through North Pillar in 1980 . He died while making a winter attempt on Kangchenjunga.-References:*...
22 April 1985	Borut Bergant		Fall (on Yalung Kang [a.k.a. Kangchenjunga West])
14 January 1985	Chris Chandler
15 October 1981	Jean-Jacques Ricouard		Fall
4 May 1980	Alfonso Medina		Disappeared (on Yalung Kang [a.k.a. Kangchenjunga West])
4 May 1980	Hugo Saldaña		Disappeared (on Yalung Kang [a.k.a. Kangchenjunga West])
12 April 1977	Sukhvinder Singh		Fall
15 May 1973	Takeo Matsuda		Hit by rock (after summiting Yalung Kang [a.k.a. Kangchenjunga West])
26 May 1955	Pemi Dorje		Fall
9 August 1931	Hermann Schaller	Weimar Republic	Fall
9 August 1931	Pasang 1		Fall
August 1931	Babulall
July 1931	Lobsang
9 May 1930	Chettan		Falling ice
27 May 1929	E. Farmer
1 September 1905	three unnamed others		Fall
1 September 1905	Alexis Pache	Switzerland	Fall
28 August 1905	unnamed porter		Fall

Lhotse

Lhotse

Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit at 8,516 metres above sea level, Lhotse Middle is and Lhotse Shar is...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
7 May 2010	Serguey Duganov		AMS
25 May 2009	Sergey Samoilov		Fall
21 May 2007	Pemba Doma		Fall
9 May 2006	Pavel Kalny		Fall
5 October 2003	Sun-Dug Hwang		Avalanche (on Lhotse South)
5 October 2003	Joo-Hoon Park		Avalanche (on Lhotse South)
17 September 2000	Vladimir Bondarev		Avalanche
27 May 1997	Vladimir Bashkirov		Illness
24 October 1989	Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world....		Fall
27 September 1987	Antoni (Toni) Sors		Avalanche (on Lhotse South)
27 September 1987	Sergio Escalera		Avalanche (on Lhotse South)
27 September 1987	Francesc Porras		Avalanche (on Lhotse South)
27 September 1987	Antonio Quiñones		Avalanche (on Lhotse South)
14 September 1987	Czeslaw Jakiel		Avalanche
30 October 1986	Pedro Alonso		Fall (on Lhotse South)
15 October 1985	Rafal Cholda		Fall
16 October 1981	Philippe Petten	Switzerland	Disappearance (on Lhotse South)
16 October 1981	Pierre Favez	Switzerland	Disappearance (on Lhotse South)
17 May 1980	Pasang Nima		Avalanche
28 April 1980	Nicolas Jaeger		Disappearance
12 May 1977	Max Lutz		Fall
17 December 1974	Stanislaw Latallo		Exhaustion

Makalu

Makalu

Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world at and is located southeast of Mount Everest, on the border between Nepal and China...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
22 May 2011	Joëlle Brupbacher Joëlle Brupbacher Joëlle Brupbacher was a Swiss mountaineer.Brupbacher lived in Muri bei Bern and was employed as an IT specialist with Swiss Federal Railways...	Switzerland
30 May 2010	Zaharias (Haris) Kiriakakis
27 January 2006	Jean-Christophe Lafaille Jean-Christophe Lafaille Jean-Christophe Lafaille was a French mountaineer noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a...		Lost
15 May 2005	Sumba Sherpa
18 May 2004	Jay Sieger
17 May 2004	Vladislav Terzyul Vladislav Terzyul Vladyslav Terzyul , born in Artyom, Siberia, was one of the world's premier high-altitude climbers.He is said to be one of the few people to have climbed all eight-thousander peaks and the first Ukrainian ever, but this claim is disputed.Vladislav Terzyul died descending from the summit of Makalu...		Fall
25 April May 2002	Raymond Caughron
30 April 1999	Michael Knakkergaard-Jørgensen		Fall
24 May 1997	Igor Bugachevski
21 May 1997	Salavat Khabibullin
15 October 1983	Mark Moorhead		Fall
25 May 1976	Karel Schubert	Czechoslovakia
26 May 1973	Jan Kounický	Czechoslovakia

Cho Oyu

Cho Oyu

Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world at above sea level. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalayas and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between China and Nepal...

 

Updated and completed up to 2010.

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
29 September 2011	Rostislav Krpec
22 May 2011	Ronald Naar Ronald Naar Ronald Edwin Naar was a Dutch mountaineer known as Netherlands most famous adventurer.Naar was born in The Hague, and was an active climber from the 1970s onwards. He made the first ascents of Peak 6393 in the Karakorum, Djo Drake in Bhutan, Tilleketinda on Greenland and Duivelsei in Surinam...
3 October 2010	Walter Nones		Fall
3 May 2010	Serguey Nikitin		Unknown
25 September 2009	Clifton Maloney Clifton Maloney Clifton Harlan Wells Maloney was an American businessman.-Early life:A veteran of the United States Navy, Maloney graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He was also a serious athlete and adventurer and a member of the Explorers Club, the Alpine Club, and the New York...		Illness
2 June 2009	Dennis Verhoeve		Fall
5 October 2008	Miha Valič Miha Valic Miha Valič was a Slovenian mountaineer. He was the first person to ascend every 4000-meter peak in the Alps in one winter session. The Alps marathon was completed in 102 days....		AMS
4 October 2008	Guy Leveille		Fall
9 May 2006	Raymund Spang		Fall
11 May 2005	Lubos Stacho		Illness
13 October 2004	Xabier Omarzabal		Fall
6 October 2003	Christos Barouchas		Exhaustion
16 May 2003	Guenter Welkisch		AMS
14 May 2003	Paul Carr		Illness
14 May 2002	Adam Cinnamond		Crevasse
30 April 2002	Chhong Ringee		Unknown
9 September 2001	Su-Ya Kim		AMS
11 October 2000	Pavle Milošević	Serbia and Montenegro	Illness
20 September 2000	Pemba Gyalzen		Avalanche
20 September 2000	Pasang Nuru		Avalanche
20 September 2000	Pasang Nima		Avalanche
4 May 2000	Pavel Bonadysenko		Fall
4 May 2000	Noora Toivonen		Fall
Winter 1999	Joan Carrillo Junca		Fall
26 September 1998	Alexander Jaggi	Switzerland	Illness
13 May 1998	Gerald Roesner		Fall
30 April 1998	Viktor Stepanov		Illness
10 October 1996	Lubos Becak		AMS
6 October 1996	Hiroshi Oya		AMS
20 April 1996	Friedrich Zintl		Illness
8 October 1994	Lhakpa Gyalu		Illness
24 January 1994	Juan Carlos Piedra	Switzerland	Fall
24 January 1994	Jean-Luc Beausire	Switzerland	Fall
20 May 1992	Philippe Monnerat	Switzerland	Fall
21 October 1991	Yuri Grebeniuk		Falling Rock/Ice
11 May 1991	Horst Wasmann		Fall
Summer 1990	Chandra Gurung		Illness
25 December 1989	Ang Lhakpa Nuru		Fall
29 September 1988	Daniel Bovero		AMS
12 May 1988	Stefan Wörner	Switzerland	AMS
23 October 1986	Pierre-Alain Steiner	Switzerland	Fall
19 May 1982	Reinhard Karl Reinhard Karl Reinhard Karl was a German mountaineer, photographer and writer.-Early life:Karl was born in Heidelberg. At the age of 14, he started working as a mechanic apprentice. Later on, he joined night classes to complete the high school. When he was admitted to daily school, he left his work as mechanic...		Avalanche
7 May 1964	Alois Thurmayr		AMS
4 May 1964	Georg Huber		AMS
2 October 1959	Chhowang		Avalanche
2 October 1959	Ang Norbu		Avalanche
2 October 1959	Claudine van der Stratten		Avalanche
2 October 1959	Claude Kogan		Avalanche
28 April 1958	Narendra Dhar Jayal Narendra Dhar Jayal Major Narendra Dhar Jayal, or Nandu, as he was affectionately known , was an officer of the Bengal Sappers and the Indian Army Corps of Engineers...		AMS

Manaslu

Manaslu

Manaslu , also known as Kutang) is the eighth highest mountain in the world, and is located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal. Its name, which means "Mountain of the Spirit", comes from the Sanskrit word Manasa, meaning "intellect" or "soul"...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
12 May 2011	Bernard Milian		disappearance
12 May 2011	Alain Laurens		disappearance
12 May 2011	Tashi Sherpa		disappearance
29 April 2011	Isa Mir-Shekari	Iran	HACE
24 April 2010	Yun Chi-Won		-
24 April 2010	Park Haeng-Su		-
1 October 2009	Franc Oderlap		-
19 May 2009	Dr. Levente Szabó		-
29 April 2009	Giuseppe Antonelli		-
28 May 2006	Sue Fear Sue Fear Susan Erica Fear was an Australian mountain climber, passionate supporter of the Fred Hollows Foundation and a 2005 recipient of the Order of Australia medal in the Queen's birthday honours...		Fall
1995	Jörg Starke		-
1995	Michael Zunk		-
1993	Igor Khmiliar		-
1993	Sergei Jadrychnikov		-
3 October 1992	Sven Vermeiren		Fall
2 October 1992	Sylwia Domowska		Fall
10 May 1991	Gottfried Mutschlechner		-
1990	Nancy Jackson		-
1990	Charlie Schertz		-
1990	Nima Wangchuk Sherpa		-
1990	Zinur Halitov	Soviet Union	-
1990	Grigory Lunjakov	Soviet Union	-
1990	Murat Galiev	Soviet Union	-
1989	Santiago Suarez		-
1987	Ichigi Kudo		-
1986	Wilhelm Klaiber		-
1986	Dieter Oberbichler		-
1985	Nima Norbu Sherpa		-
1985	Thomas Juen		-
24 April 1983	Nejc Zaplotnik	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	-
24 April 1983	Ante Bućan	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	-
1983	Stanislaw Jaworski		-
10 May 1982	Enric Font		-
10 May 1982	Pere Aymerich		-
1982	Takashi Sakuma		-
1979	Edgardo Jose Porsellana		-
1974	Sadako Suzuki		-
1972	Franz Jäger		-
1972	Andi Schlick		-
1971	Kim Ki-Supa		-
1971	Kazunari Yasuhisa		-

Dhaulagiri

Dhaulagiri

Dhaulagiri is Earth's seventh highest mountain at ; one of fourteen over eight thousand metres. Dhaulagiri was first climbed May 13, 1960 by a Swiss/Austrian expedition....

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
29 September 2010	Daisuke Honda
15 May 2010	Zhao Li-Yang	Mainland China
1 May 2009	Mehdi Etemad Far	Iran
8 April 2009	Piotr Morawski Piotr Morawski Piotr Morawski was a Polish mountaineer. He was best known for making the first successful winter ascent together with Simone Moro of Shisha Pangma on January 14, 2005. Morawski died aged 32 during an international Dhaulagiri/Manaslu expedition in Nepal...	Poland
5 May 2008	Rafael Guillén	Spain
5 May 2008	Darío Bracali
12 May 2007	Santiago Sagaste	Spain
12 May 2007	Ricardo Valencia	Spain
30 April 2007	Sergio Della Longa
14 October 2001	Yukihiko Shinagawa
14 October 2001	Ryushi Hoshino
14 October 2001	Masashi Fukumoto
11 October 2001	Jose Antonio Garces	Spain
7 October 2000	Gyalzen Chuldim
29 September 2000	Soo-Ho Lee	South Korea
24 October 1999	Ginette Harrison
24 October 1999	Dawa Dorje
2 October 1989	Charalampos (Babus) Tsoupas
16 May 1998	Chantal Mauduit
16 May 1998	Ang Tshering
1 May 1998	Nikos Papandreou
6 October 1995	Isayoshi Tawaraya
15 May 1995	Albrecht Hammann
18 October 1994	Galina Chekanova
26 September 1994	Robert Bähler	Switzerland
6 October 1993	Gary Ball
11 May 1992	Sandita Isaile	Kingdom of Romania
11 May 1992	Taina Coliban	Kingdom of Romania
2 May 1992	Hubert Weinzierl
31 October 1990	Dainius Makauskas	Lithuania
29 April 1990	Wangel
25 December 1989	Scot McGrath
25 December 1989	Gregory Barber
25 December 1989	Wangchuk Nuru
10 October 1989	Francesc (Quico) Dalmases	Spain
25 September 1989	Sarki Kami
25 September 1989	Ajiwa
21 September 1986	Franz Mülleder	Austria
23 October 1984	Jan Simon	Czechoslovakia
23 May 1981	Mario Serrano	Argentina
7 October 1980	Lyn F. Griffith
14 May 1979	Pemba
13 May 1979	Jean-Louis Sabarly
13 May 1979	Eric Poumailloux
20 October 1978	Kazuyoshi Kogure
23 September 1978	Kiyoshi Kobayashi
23 September 1978	Yujiro Fukasawa
23 September 1978	Hiroshi Akuzawa
21 April 1978	Katsumi Naganuma
26 March 1975	Yoshitada Numao
26 March 1975	Tetsu Imura
26 March 1975	Pasang Kami
26 March 1975	Dorje
26 March 1975	Dakiya
28 April 1969	David Seidman		Avalanche
28 April 1969	Ross William		Avalanche
28 April 1969	Vincent Hoeman		Avalanche
28 April 1969	Paul Gerhard		Avalanche
28 April 1969	Boyd Everett		Avalanche
28 April 1969	Pemba Phutar		Avalanche
28 April 1969	Tenzing		Avalanche
29 April 1959	Heinrich Roiss	Austria
30 June 1954	Francisco (Paco) Ibanez	Argentina

Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain on Earth, the second highest mountain in Pakistan and among the eight-thousanders with a summit elevation of 8,126 meters...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
11 July 2009	Go Mi-Young Go Mi-Young Go Mi-Young, was a South Korean female mountaineer.Together with Kim Jae-Soo, she became one of the first climbers to summit three 8,000-meter peaks in a single season when they climbed Makalu, Kangchenjunga, and Dhaulagiri in six weeks.On July 12, 2009, after reaching the top of Nanga Parbat, she...	South Korea	Fall
10 July 2009	Wolfgang Köblinger	Austria
17 July 2008	Saman Nemati	Iran
15 July 2008	Karl Unterkircher Karl Unterkircher Karl Unterkircher was an Italian mountaineer. He is mostly known for opening new mountain routes. In 2004, he was the first alpinist to climb the two highest peaks on Earth without oxygen in the same year...
28 July 2006	Naohiro Ozawa
22 July 2006	José Antonio Delgado José Antonio Delgado José Antonio Delgado Sucre was the first Venezuelan mountaineer to reach the summit of five eight-thousanders and one of the most experienced climbers in Latin America. Known as el indio , Delgado led the first Venezuelan Everest expedition in 2001...	Venezuela
1 July 2004	Günter Jung
26 July 1998	Hideki Ohmiya
30 July 1997	Joan Colet	Spain
20 June 1996	Răzvan Petcu	Kingdom of Romania	Avalanche
20 June 1996	Gabriel Stana	Kingdom of Romania	Avalanche
24 June 1994	Antonio Lopez	Spain
7 July 1993	Chun Moon Ahn	South Korea
18 August 1990	Osami Nakajima
3 July 1990	Chang Gi Park	South Korea
18 July 1989	Tetsuya Baba
23 June 1989	Kwang Ho Kim	South Korea
10 July 1985	Piotr Kalmus
8 December 1984	Hiromi Kameda
7 July 1984	Fuji Tsunoda
7 July 1984	Shigeoh Hida
7 July 1984	Nobuyuki Imakyurei
7 July 1984	Takashi Kogure
12 July 1983	Nobuyoshi Yamada
12 July 1983	Yuichiro Takamori
12 July 1983	Satoshi Iida
17 June 1983	Kasuoh Simura
8 June 1982	Peter Hiltbrand	Switzerland
7 June 1982	Ali Sheikh
4 June 1982	Peter Forrer	Switzerland
31 July 1977	Robert Broughton
31 July 1977	George Bogel
26 September 1976	Sebastian (Wastl) Arnold	Austria
8 July 1971	Näbi Mantas Hunza
29 June 1970	Günther Messner Günther Messner Günther Messner was an Italian mountaineer and the younger brother of Reinhold Messner. Günther climbed some of the most difficult routes in the Alps during the 1960s, and joined the Nanga Parbat-Expedition in 1970 just before the beginning of the expedition due to an opening within the...		Avalanche
23 June 1962	Siegfried (Sigi) Löw
14 / 15 June 1937	Karl Wien	Nazi Germany	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Martin Pfeffer	Nazi Germany	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Peter Müllritter	Nazi Germany	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Günther Hepp	Nazi Germany	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Hans Hartmann	Nazi Germany	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Adolf Göttner	Nazi Germany	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Pert Fankhauser	Austria	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Tigmay	India  British Raj	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Pasang Norbu	India  British Raj	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Nima Tsering I	India  British Raj	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Nima Tsering II	India  British Raj	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Mingma Tsering	India  British Raj	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Karmi	India  British Raj	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Gyalgen Monjo	India  British Raj	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Chong Karma	India  British Raj	Avalanche
14 / 15 June 1937	Ang Tshering II	India  British Raj	Avalanche
9–17 July 1934	Willy Merkl	Nazi Germany
9–17 July 1934	Willo Welzenbach	Nazi Germany
9–17 July 1934	Ulrich Wieland	Nazi Germany
9–17 July 1934	Nima Nurbu	India  British Raj
9–17 July 1934	Pinju Norbu	India  British Raj
9–17 July 1934	Nima Tashi	India  British Raj
9–17 July 1934	Dorje Nima	India  British Raj
9–17 July 1934	Dakshi	India  British Raj
9–17 July 1934	Gyali	India  British Raj
8 June 1934	Alfred Drexel	Nazi Germany
24 August 1895	Albert Mummery Albert F. Mummery Albert Frederick Mummery , was an English mountaineer and author. Although most notable for his many and varied first ascents put up in the Alps, Mummery, along with J...		Avalanche
24 August 1895	Ragobir Thapa Ghurka		Avalanche
24 August 1895	Goman Singh Ghurka		Avalanche

Annapurna I 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
October 2011	Park Young Seok Park Young Seok Park Young-Seok is a South Korean mountaineer. He is the first person in the world who completed a true Adventure Grand Slam. He has climbed the world's 14 Eight-thousanders, the Seven Summits, and visited both poles...	South Korea
October 2011	Dong-Min Shin	South Korea
October 2011	Gi-Seok Gan	South Korea
29 April 2010	Tolo Calafat	Spain
May 2009	Martin Minarik
23 May 2008	Iñaki Ochoa de Olza Iñaki Ochoa de Olza Iñaki Ochoa de Olza was a Spanish mountaineer, alpinist and climber. Ochoa de Olza had taken part in over thirty separate climbing expeditions in the Himalayas over the course of his career, he was involved in more than 200 expeditions as guide and he climbed 15 moutains of over 8,000 meters...	Spain
22 April 2007	Udhav Prasad Khanal
22 October 2006	Lhakpa Rita II
18 May 2005	Christian Kuntner
10 October 2004	Shuji Nazuka
10 October 2004	Michio Sato
29 April 1999	Ji Hyun-Ok			,
29 April 1999	Dorje Kami
26 April 1998	Ang Tshering
25 December 1997	Anatoli Boukreev Anatoli Boukreev Anatoli Nikoliavich Boukreev, , was a Kazakhstani climber who made ascents of seven of the 8,000 metre peaks without supplemental oxygen. In total he made 18 successful ascents on peaks above 8000 m . Boukreev was lost under an avalanche on Annapurna...
25 December 1997	Dimitri Sobolev
23 March 1997	Ngati	|
11 October 1992	Pierre Béghin
20 October 1991	Gabriel Denamur		Lost
19 September 1991	Seog-Jee Lee	South Korea
19 September 1991	Song-Gu Lee	South Korea
19 September 1991	Sange Dawa
19 September 1991	Tendi Lhakpa
19 September 1991	Jangbu Nurbu
19 September 1991	Tenzing
28 October 1989	Milan Metkov
28 October 1989	Ognian Stoykov
18 October 1988	Ramiro Navarrete	Ecuador
1 October 1988	Jiri Pelikan	Czechoslovakia
29 September 1988	Akihiro Mori
29 September 1988	Ang Dawa
20 December 1987	Toshiyuki Kobayashi
20 December 1987	Yasuhira Saito
24 May 1987	Andres Ferrer	Spain
23 September 1986	Benoit Grison
7 December 1984	Pasang Norbu
7 December 1984	Keepa
21 April 1984	Philippe Dumas
21 April 1984	Patrick Taglianut
24 September 1983	Yang-Kun Chung	South Korea
24 September 1983	Magar Maila
24 September 1983	Rama Magar Tika
18 October 1982	Susumu Akimatsu
18 October 1982	Miko Ono
17 October 1982	Alex MacIntyre
12 May 1982	Rai Shanti
4 May 1982	Werner Bürkli	Switzerland
31 October 1981	Yasuji Kato
28 September 1981	Andre Durieux
28 September 1981	Yves Favre
27 September 1981	Ang Nima
27 September 1981	Pemba Tshering
19 September 1979	Eric Roberts
19 September 1979	Maynard Cohick
19 September 1979	Gil Harder
1 May 1979	Yves Morin
17 October 1978	Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz
17 October 1978	Vera Watson
16 April 1975	Franz Tegischer	Austria
26 September 1973	Leo Cerruti
26 September 1973	Miller Rava
18 May 1973	Tadashi Ushigoe
18 May 1973	Sadatoshi Takahashi
18 May 1973	Masanori Hama
18 May 1973	Kazumi Katagiri
18 May 1973	Rinje
30 May 1970	Ian Clough

Gasherbrum I

Gasherbrum I

Gasherbrum I , also known as Hidden Peak or K5, is the 11th highest peak on Earth, located on the Pakistan-China border in Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan and Xinjiang region of China. Gasherbrum I is part of the Gasherbrum massif, located in the Karakoram region of the Himalaya...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
18 June 2008	Jean-Noel Urban
29 July 2007	Jiri Danek
5 August 2005	Dawa Nurbu II
25 July 2004	Jose Antonio Anton	Spain
7 September 2003	Mohammad Oraz Mohammad Oraz Mohammad Oraz , , born 1969 in Naghadeh, Iran – died September 6, 2003, Islamabad, Pakistan) was an Iranian mountain climber. He was the second Iranian climber to conquer Mount Everest on 1998. The first Iranian is Iranian-American climber Hooman Aprin who stood on top of Everest oct.5,...	Iran
15 July 2003	Vladimir Pestrikov
5 July 2003	Jose Manuel Buenaga	Spain
5 July 2003	Nancy Noemi Silvestrini
9 July 2001	Claudius Gálvez
1 August 1998	Yoshiumi Hayoshida
1 August 1998	Kasunori Kutama
1 August 1998	Kasutoshi Naito
1 August 1998	Takashi Watanabe
19 August 1990	Josep Granyo	Spain
19 August 1990	Albert Ibanez	Spain
12 July 1989	Dorje Tsindi
25 June 1988	Jorge Luis Brito
29 July 1987	Khalid Khan
18 August 1986	Andreas Bührer	Switzerland
31 May 1986	Muhammad Ali Ghulam
9–10 June 1977	Drago Bregar	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Broad Peak

Broad Peak

Broad Peak , is the 12th highest mountain on Earth, with an elevation of 8,051 meters . The literal translation of "Broad Peak" to Faichan Kangri is not accepted among the Balti people.- Geography :...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
18 July 2009	Cristina Castagna Cristina Castagna Cristina "El Grio" Castagna was an Italian mountaineer and the first Italian woman on Makalu.Castagna was born in San Quirico di Valdagno...		Fall
30 June 2008	Vlado Plulik	Slovakia	-
8 July 2006	Markus Kronthaler Markus Kronthaler Markus Kronthaler was an Austrian mountaineer and climber.Kronthaler was born in Kufstein, Tyrol. He was an officer in the alpine section of Austria's Gendarmerie, which he left in 2003 to become a professional climber...	Austria	Exhaustion
11 July 1999	Hun Seong-Kwang	South Korea	-
29 July 1998	Pascale Bessieres		-
29 July 1998	Eric Escoffier		-
16 July 1997	Jefferey Bubb		-
16 July 1997	Fukuzo Yokotagawa		-
20 July 1996	Han Dong-Keun	South Korea	-
20 July 1996	Yang Jae-Mo	South Korea	-
20 July 1996	Lim Sun-Taek	South Korea	-
12 July 1995	Park Hyun-Jae	South Korea	-
22 June 1994	Alexej Himer		-
11 June 1994	Bohuslav Bilek		-
24 July 1990	Kurt Lyncke-Krüger		-
20 August 1988	Jang Yong-Il	South Korea	-
22 August 1986	Liam Scot Elliot		-
18 August 1985	Barbara Kozlowska		-
16 May 1985	Hans Frick		-
29 June 1983	Peter Thexton		-
5 August 1981	Enric Pujol	Spain	-
29 July 1975	Andrzej Sirkorski		-
29 July 1975	Marek Kesicki		-
28 July 1975	Bohdan Nowaczyk		-

Gasherbrum II

Gasherbrum II

Gasherbrum II , also known as K4, is the 13th highest mountain on Earth, located on the border of Gilgit-Baltistan province, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China...

 

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
23 July 2011	Leila Esfandyari	Iran	Fall
21 July 2009	Luis María Barbero	Spain	-
18 July 2007	Ernst-Robert Zauner		-
18 July 2007	Arne Heckele		-
3 July 2007	Ulrike Gschwandtner	Austria	-
20 July 2001	Jean-François Bassine	Belgium	Fall
28 July 2000	Felix Iñurrategui	Spain	-
13 July 1989	Antton Ibarguren	Spain	-
9 July 1988	Gary Silver		-
6 July 1988	Michel Basson		-
25 June 1988	Henri Albet		-
29 June 1987	Jean-Pierre Hefti	Switzerland	-
12 July 1986	Carlos Rabago	Spain	-
11 July 1985	Pierre Bouygues		-
24 June 1985	Toru Nakano		-
2 July 1982	Glenn Brindeiro		-
1 June 1976	Osamu Matsuura		-
27 May 1976	Yoshinori Hiramatsu		-
27 May 1976	Taketoshi Miyamoto		-

Shishapangma

Shishapangma

Xixabangma, frequently spelled Shishapangma or Shisha Pangma , also called Gosainthān , is the fourteenth-highest mountain in the world and, at 8,013 m , the lowest of the eight-thousanders...

 

Updated and completed up to 2009.

Date	Name	Nationality	Cause of Death	References
15 October 2009	Roby Piantoni		Fall
April 2007	Marek Hudák	Slovakia	Disappearance
31 October 2006	Bruno Carvalho		Fall
3 October 2005	Stanislav Krylov		Disappearance
28 September 2005	Martin Oczko		Altitude sickness
5 October 1999	Alex Lowe Alex Lowe Stuart Alexander "Alex" Lowe , was widely considered one of his generation's finest all-around mountaineers...		Avalanche
5 October 1999	David Bridges		Avalanche
21 May 1998	Andreino Pasini		Illness
5 October 1996	Viktor Pastukh		Avalanche
5 October 1996	Gennadi Jaltan Vasilenko		Avalanche
19 May 1996 or May 1997	Ming-Tse Kuo	Thailand	Fall	Discrepancy regarding the year of death between different sources
1 May 1996	Stefan Sluka	Slovakia	Disappearance
1 October 1994	Zdenek Slachta		Avalanche
18 September 1994	Tod Gassen		Fall in crevasse
29 September 1993	Bueoung-Tae Park	South Korea	Fall
20 September 1991	Hidekazu Gomi		Avalanche
20 September 1991	Tetsuichi Miyashita		Avalanche
22 May 1991	Werner Braun		Disappearance (probably avalanche)
22 May 1991	Werner Meichsner		Disappearance (probably avalanche)
22 May 1991	Günther Semmler		Disappearance (probably avalanche)
22 May 1991	Karl-Heinz Thiele		Disappearance (probably avalanche)
15 October 1990	Joan Martinez	Spain	Exposure
4 October 1989	Luca Leonardi	Switzerland	Avalanche
28 April 1983	Fritz Luchsinger	Switzerland	Altitude sickness

External links

• Eight-thousanders fatalities tables (E. Jurgalski)