List of Mount Everest records

Mount Everest from Gokyo Ri

Tashi and Nungshi were the first twins to summit Mount Everest together

This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest.

Records

Highest number of times to reach the summit of Mount Everest

† - Non-Nepali or Tibetan

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Highest number of times to reach the summit	21	Apa Sherpa	Nepal	2012-05-11 !May 11, 2011	[1]
		Phurba Tashi Sherpa	Nepal	2013-05-19 !May 19, 2013	[2]
Most ascents by a woman	7	Lhakpa Sherpa	Nepal		[3][4]
Most summits without supplemental oxygen	10	Ang Rita	Nepal	1996-05-23 !May 23, 1996	[5]
Most summits by a foreigner †	15	Dave Hahn	United States		[6][7][8]
Most ascents by a foreign woman †	6	Melissa Arnot	United States		[9][10]

First to summit a certain number of times

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
First climbers confirmed as having reached the summit	Summited	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay	New Zealand,    Nepal	1953-05-29 !May 29, 1953
First woman to summit once	Summited	Junko Tabei	Japan	May 16, 1975	[11]
First to summit twice	2	Nawang Gombu	Nepal	1963, 1965	[12][13][14]
First woman to summit twice	2	Santosh Yadav	India	1992, 1993	[15]
First to summit three times	3 by 1982	Sungdare Sherpa	Nepal		[16]
First woman to summit three times	3 by 2003	Lhakpa Sherpa	Nepal		[17]
First to summit 4 times	4 by 1985	Sungdare Sherpa	Nepal		[18]
First woman to summit 4 times	4 by 2004	Lhakpa Sherpa	Nepal		[19]
First to summit 5 times	5 by 1988	Sungdare Sherpa	Nepal		[18]
First woman to summit 5 times	5 by 2005	Lhakpa Sherpa	Nepal		[20]
First person to summit 6 times	6 by 1990	Ang Rita	Nepal		[18]
First woman to summit 6 times	6 by 2006	Lhakpa Sherpa	Nepal
First person to summit 7 times	7 by 1992	Ang Rita	Nepal		[21]
First woman to summit 7 times	7 by 2016	Lhakpa Sherpa	Nepal		[3]
First person to summit 8 times	8 by 1993	Ang Rita	Nepal		[21]
First person to summit 9 times	9 by 1995	Ang Rita	Nepal		[22]
First person to summit 10 times	10 by 1996	Ang Rita	Nepal		[23]
First person to summit 11 times	11 by 2000	Apa Sherpa	Nepal		[24]

Additional performance records

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Most deaths in one day at Everest	17	Mount Everest	Nepal, China	2015-04-25 !April 25, 2015	[25]
Fastest ascent from Everest South Base Camp with supplemental oxygen	8 hours and 10 minutes	Pemba Dorje	Nepal	2004-05-21 !May 21, 2004	[26]
Fastest ascent from Everest South Base Camp without supplemental oxygena	20 hours and 24 minutes	Kazi Sherpa	Nepal	1998-10-17 !October 17, 1998	[27]
Longest stay on the summit	21 hours	Babu Chiri Sherpa	Nepal	1999-05-06 !May 6, 1999	[28]

Oldest summiters

This table shows the progression of the record for oldest male summiter.

Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
80 years 224 days	Yuichiro Miura	Japan	2013-05-23 !May 23, 2013	[29]
76 years 340 days	Min Bahadur Sherchan	Nepal	2008	[29][30][31]
75 years 227 days	Yuichiro Miura	Japan	2008	[29][30][31]
71 years 61 days	Katsusuke Yanagisawa	Japan	2007-05-22 !May 22, 2007	[32][33]
70 years 225 days	Takao Arayama	Japan	May 2006	[33][34]
70 years 222 days	Yuichiro Miura	Japan	May 2003	[29][30][33][34]
65 years 176 days	Tomiyasu Ishikawa	Japan	2002-05-17 !17 May 2002	[35]
65 years	Sir Ranulph Fiennes	United Kingdom	2009-05-21 !21 May 2009	[36]
64 years	Sherman Bull	United States	2001-05-25 !May 25, 2001	[37][38]
63 years 311 days	Toshio Yamamoto	Japan	2000	[39][40]
60 years 161 days	Lev Sarkisov	Georgia	1999-05-12 !May 12, 1999	[39][41]
60 years 160 days	Ramon Balanca (Blanco) Suarez	Venezuela	1993 (b. 1933)	[42]
55 years	Richard Bass	United States (b. 1929)	April 1985	[42][43]
50 years	Chris Bonington (b. 1934)	United Kingdom	April 1985	[42]
50 years	Jozef Psotka (b. 1934, died on descent)	Czechoslovakia	October 1984	[42]
50 years 118 days	Gerhard Schmatz (b 1929)	West Germany	October 1979	[35][44]
49 years 52 days	Pierre Mazeaud (b 1929)	France	15 Oct 1978	[35]
42 years 6 months	Sonam Gyatso (b 1922)	India (Sikkim)	22 May 1965	[35]
39 years	Tenzing Norgay	Nepal	29 May 1953	[35]

Norgay was older than Hillary, so they became the modern day starting point for oldest and youngest climbers respectively.

This table shows the progression of the record for oldest female summiter.

Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
73 years 180 days	Tamae Watanabe	Japan	2012-05-19 !May 19, 2012	[45][46]
63 years 177 days	Tamae Watanabe	Japan	2002-05-16 !May 16, 2002	[45][46]
50 years	Anna Czerwińska	Poland	2000-05-22 !May 22, 2000	[47]
47 years 98 days (died in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster)	Yasuko Namba	Japan	1996-05-10 !May 10, 1996	[46]
47 years 21 days	Mary Lefever	United States	1993-05-19 !May 19, 1993	[35]
39 years 228 days (died on descent)	Hannelore Schmatz	Germany	1979-10-02 !October 10, 1979	[35]
35 years, 236 days	Junko Tabei	Japan	May 16, 1975	[11][35]

Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit, and thus set the initial records for both oldest and youngest female summiter.

Youngest Summiters

Due to some variations in record keeping, there may be some variation in the examples

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest	13 years 10 months 10 days old	Jordan Romero	United States	2010-05-22 !May 22, 2010	[48]
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest (2003-2010)	15 years old	Ming Kipa (female)	Nepal	2003-05-24 !May 24, 2003	[49][50][51]
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest (2001-2003)	16 year 14 days old	Temba Tsheri	Nepal	2001-5-24 !May 24, 2001	[52]
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest (1990-2001)	17 years old	Bertrand Roche	France	1990-5-24 !1990	[52]

Youngest female

examples only

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Youngest girl to climb Mount Everest	13 years and 11 months old	Malavath Purna	India	2014-05-25 !May 25, 2014	[53][54]
Youngest person to climb Mount Everest (2003-2010)	15 years old	Ming Kipa	Nepal	2003-05-24 !May 24, 2003	[49][50][51]
Youngest woman up to Summit Everest up to that time	19 years 35 days	Dicky Dolma	India	May 10, 1993	[55]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	22 years, 273 days	Kim Soon-Jo	Korea	May 10, 1993
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	24 years, 215 days	Santosh Yadav	India	May 12, 1992
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	27 years 5 days	Lydia Bradey	New Zealand	October 14, 1988	[35][56]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	29 year 2 days	Sharon Wood	Canada	May 20, 1986	[35]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time	30 years 28 days	Bachendri Pal	India	May 23, 1984	[35]
First (so both the youngest and oldest) woman to summit	35 years 236 days	Junko Tabei	Japan	May 16, 1975	[11][35]

See also

• Nimdoma Sherpa
• Samantha Larson
• Nima Chhamzi Sherpa, summited May 19, 2012 at the age of 16^[57]

First …

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
First climbers confirmed as having reached the summit	Summited	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay	New Zealand,    Nepal	1953-05-29 !May 29, 1953
First woman to reach the summit	Summited	Junko Tabei	Japan	May 16, 1975	[11]
First ascent without supplemental oxygen	Summited	Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler	Italy,  Austria	May 8, 1978
First winter ascent	Summited	Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy	Poland	February 17, 1980
First solo ascent without supplemental oxygen	Summited	Reinhold Messner	Italy	August 20, 1980
First paraglider descent from summit	Summited, descended by paraglider	Jean-Marc Boivin	France	September 26, 1988	[58]
First female ascent without supplemental oxygen	Summited	Lydia Bradey	New Zealand	October 14, 1988	[56]
First Nepalese woman to successfully summit and descend	Summited, descended	Lhakpa Sherpa	Nepal	May 18, 2000	[59]
First to descend on a snowboard	Summited, descended by snowboard	Marco Siffredi	France	May, 2001
First person to reach the summit from three different routes (South Col., North Face and Khangshung Face)	Summited by 3 routes	Kushang Sherpa	India	1993- 2003	[60] [61]
First two people to marry on top of Mount Everest	Summited, married	Pem Dorjee and Moni Mulepati	Nepal	May 30, 2005	[62]
First twins to climb Mount Everest together	Summited	Tashi and Nungshi Malik	India	May 19, 2013	[63]
First to climb the Everest Triple Crown	Summited	Kenton Cool and Dorje Gylgen	United Kingdom,   Nepal	May 21, 2013	[64]

Disabled or diseased summiters

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Amputated foot	Summited Everest	Tom Whittaker	United States	May 27, 1998	[65]
Blind	Summited Everest	Erik Weihenmayer	United States	May 25, 2001
Cystic fibrosis	Summited Everest	Nick Talbot	United Kingdom	May 2016	[66]
Left arm amputated	Summited Everest	Gary Guller	United States	May 23, 2003	[67]
Double leg amputee	Summited Everest	Mark Inglis	New Zealand	May 15, 2006
With no fingers	Summited Everest	Kim Hong-Bin	South Korea	May 16, 2007	[68][69]
Double arm amputee	Summited Everest	Sudarshan Gautam	Nepal Canada	May 20, 2013	[70][71]
Female amputee (1 leg)	Summited Everest	Arunima Sinha	India	May 21, 2013	[72]
Insulin dependent Diabetic	Summited Everest	Geri Winkler	Austria	May 20, 2006	[73][74]
Type I Diabetes	Summited Everest	Will Cross	United States	May 23, 2006	[75][76][77]
Multiple sclerosis first woman	Summited Everest	Lori Schneider	United States	May 23, 2009	[78][79]
Multiple sclerosis first man	Summited Everest	Niels van Buren	Netherlands	May 2016	[80]
Wegener's granulomatosis and partially blind	Summited Everest	Cindy Abbott	United States	May 23, 2010	[81][82]
Crohn's disease and ostomy	Summited South Summit of Everest	Rob Hill	Canada	May 25, 2010	[83][84]
Cancer survivor (Hodgkins disease and Askin's sarcoma); 1 lung	Summit	Sean Swarner	United States	May 16, 2002	[85][86]

Other

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Highest of rotorcraft landing and take-off	8848m	Didier Delsalle	France	2005-05-00 !May, 2005	[87]

• Elizabeth Hawley, has kept records for Everest from 1960s to at least 2015.^[88]
• Marc Kopp was the first disabled person to skydive over Mount Everest, in 2013;he suffers from multiple sclerosis.^[89]

Nepali records

Chhurim summited twice in May 2012, the first woman to summit twice in a season

Many Mount Everest records are held by Nepali, especially those from the Sherpa region who are synonymous with hospitality, hard-work, and brave alpinism.

• On 11 May 2011, Apa Sherpa successfully reached the summit of Everest for the twenty-first time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents.^[90] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29.^[91]
• One of the most famous Nepalese female mountaineers was Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali female climber to reach the summit of Everest, but who died during the descent. Another well-known woman Sherpa was the two-time Everest summiter Pemba Doma Sherpa, who died after falling from Lhotse on 22 May 2007.^[92]
• Nepali mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa, the first Nepali female climber to reach the summit of Everest and descend from it, has stood atop of Everest 7 times, more than any other woman in the world.^[93]

Another examples of noted Nepali Everest mountaineers:

• Temba Tsheri
• Nima Chhamzi Sherpa
• Nimdoma Sherpa
• Ming Kipa
• Chhurim

About names: Many Nepalese are only given one name, and are often named for a day of the week

One source of confusion was in record keeping was that the South side was essentially closed in 2014 due to an avalanche disrupting the Khumbu Icefall. So most of the summiters summited from the North side, except for a small a group that flew a helicopter over the Khumbu Icefall, even though it was not open. This is why in 2016 Adrian Ballinger said on Instagram "9 Sherpa using supplemental oxygen became the first to summit on the South Side of Everest in the past 3 years" in 2016.^[94] What he was saying was that in that Sherpa's did not summit in 2014 or in 2015, which created confusion, because the group that summited was part of a Chinese team.^[94]

Everest base camp records

Records for non-summits such about the main Nepal-side Base camp:

Record name	Record	Owner	Nation	Date	Ref
Fastest run from Everest Base Camp to Kathmandu	63 hours 8 minutes	Lizzy Hawker (UK)	United Kingdom	2013-21-04 !Apr 21, 2013
Youngest person to trek to Everest Base Camp	5 years 10 months old	Harshit Saumitra	India	October 2014	[95]
Youngest siblings to trek to Everest Base Camp Youngest children to trek to Everest Base Camp	2 total 14 years, 2 months 3 total 25 years, 6 months	James and Tobin O'Donnell James, Tobin and Aidan O'Donnell	United Kingdom	August 2016	[96]
First person with Down's Syndrome to Everest Base Camp	15 years old	Eli Reimer	United States	2013	[97]

Some Everest-related marathons that start at Base camp or near Everest include the Everest Marathon, Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon, and the Mount Everest Challenge Marathon.^[98]

Death statistics

See also

• List of Mount Everest expeditions
• List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
• List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
• List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
• 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster
• List of ski descents of Eight-Thousanders#Mount Everest

Notes

1.^a Kazi Sherpa used supplemental oxygen on the descent.^[99]

External links

• A History of Mt. Everest Speed Climbing Records/Claims, by Dan Howitt
• Collection of Everest records
• British Statistics
  • Deceased
• Ascent statistics CBC (goes to 2010)
• Adventure stats for age up to 2002
• 8000ers statistics

References

Mount Everest
Topography and landmarks	Base Camp Geneva Spur Hillary Step Hornbein Couloir Kangshung Face Kangshung Glacier Khumbu Glacier Khumbu Icefall Lhakpa La Lho La North Col North Face Norton Couloir Rongbuk Glacier South Col South Summit Three Pinnacles Three Steps "Green Boots cave" Western Cwm
Expeditions	1921 British reconnaisance 1922 British 1924 British (Affair of the Dancing Lamas) 1933 British 1935 British 1936 British 1938 British 1950–52 British–Swiss–US reconnaissance 1951 British 1952 Swiss 1953 British 1975 British SW Face 1996 Indo-Tibetan Border Police 2006 Philippine 2007 Altitude Everest expedition Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition Timeline of climbing Mount Everest List of Mount Everest guides
Disasters and notable deaths	1970 disaster 1974 avalanche 1996 disaster Green Boots David Sharp 2014 avalanche 2015 avalanches List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
Committees	Joint Himalayan Committee Mount Everest Committee
In media	Beyond the Edge The Climb (book) The Climb (2007 film) Everest (1998 film) Everest (2015 film) Everest (Indian TV series) Everest '82 Everest: Beyond the Limit EverestMax Expedition Everest (roller coaster) Into Thin Air The Man Who Skied Down Everest Mount Everest webcam Paths of Glory Peak The Wildest Dream Wings Over Everest
Mount Everest massif	Khumbutse Lhotse Lingtren Nuptse Pumori
Records	List of Mount Everest records Times to the summit 20th-century summiters