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1996 Mount Everest disaster
PlaceOn 10–11 May 1996, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard and died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. Over that season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit. These deaths marked that season the deadliest…
Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa
PersonLopsang Jangbu Sherpa was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineering guide, climber and porter, 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…
Ang Dorje Sherpa
PersonAng Dorje (Chhuldim) Sherpa is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineering guide, climber, and porter from Pangboche, Nepal, who has reached the summit of Mount Everest 25 times. He was the climbing Sirdar for Rob Hall's Adventure Consultants…

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How tall is Mount Everest?
8,848.86 metres, as announced jointly by Nepal and China in December 2020. In Nepali it is Sagarmatha.
SagarmathaWho first climbed Mount Everest?
Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953.
WikipediaHillary Step
Place…8,790 metres (28,839 ft) above sea level on the southeast ridge of Mount Everest. Some 30 metres (98 ft) vertically below the mountain's 8,849-metre (29,032 ft) summit, it lay halfway between the "South Summit" and topping out. It was…

2015 Mount Everest avalanches
Place…from the quake triggered an avalanche from Pumori into Base Camp on Mount Everest. At least 24 people were killed, surpassing the toll of an avalanche that occurred in 2014 as the deadliest disaster on the mountain.
2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche
PlaceOn 18 April 2014, seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that killed sixteen climbing Sherpas in the Khumbu Icefall. This was the same icefall where the 1970 Mount Everest disaster had taken…
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