1970 Mount Everest disaster

The icefall would claim many more lives in 2014

The 1970 Mount Everest disaster was the deaths of six Nepalese Sherpas in an ice-fall avalanche on Mount Everest on 5 April 1970 in the Khumbu Icefall.^[1] The icefall lies between the usual sites of Base Camp and Camp I and is the same icefall that was the site of the later 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche. ^[2] The Sherpas were killed by an ice avalanche, and were assisting the Japanese Skiing Expedition (Yuichiro Miura ski Everest expedition).^[3][4] Their names were Mima Norbu, Nima Dorje, Tshering Tarkey, Pasang, Kunga Norbu, and Kami Tshering.^[5]

Another death that season was with another Japanese expedition; Kyak Tsering was also killed by falling ice (from a serac).^[3]

See also

• The Man Who Skied Down Everest
• List of deaths on the Eight Thousanders
• 1974 Everest Disaster (French West ridge expedition)
• List of Mount Everest expeditions
• 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche

References

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