Mount Everest from the Rongbuk Glacier in the 1920s

Mount Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heig ...

, at is currently the world's

highest mountain Currently, There are at least 108 mountains on Earth with elevations of or greater above sea level. The vast majority of these mountains are located on the edge of the Indian plate, Indian and Eurasian plate, Eurasian plates in China, India, ...

and is 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. 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.

1950s

Only six people summited Mount Everest in the 1950s: *

Sir Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineering, mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropy, philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa people, Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became th ...

and

Tenzing Norgay Tenzing Norgay (; ''tendzin norgyé''; perhaps 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. He was one of the first two people known to reach the su ...

on May 29, 1953 (

1953 British Mount Everest expedition The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953. ...

) *

Ernst Schmied Ernst Schmied (1924 in Bern, Switzerland - 22 March 2002) was a Swiss Mountaineer. He is best known for achieving the second successful summit of Mount Everest, on 23 May 1956, as part of the 1956 Swiss Expedition to Everest and Lhotse. Prior to ...

and

Jürg Marmet Jürg Marmet (14 September 1927 – 8 March 2013) was a Swiss mountaineer. Marmet was part of the first two-man Swiss team which climbed Mount Everest in 1956. (Prior to this, only Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had successfully climbed the ...

on May 23, 1956 * Dolf Reist and Hans-Rudolf von Gunten on May 24, 1956

1960s

In total, 18 people summited in the 1960s. These are some of the ascents: *

Wang Fuzhou Wang may refer to: Names * Wang (surname) (王), a common Chinese surname * Wāng (汪), a less common Chinese surname * Titles in Chinese nobility * A title in Korean nobility * A title in Mongolian nobility Places * Wang River in Thaila ...

, Gonpo Dorje, and Chu Ying-hua on May 25, 1960. The 1960 Chinese Mount Everest expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by the North Ridge. *

Jim Whittaker James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American mountaineer and mountain guide. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, on May 1, 1963 he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a ...

and

Nawang Gombu Nawang Gombu (1 May 1936 – 24 April 2011) was a Sherpa mountaineer who was the first man in the world to have climbed Mount Everest twice. Gombu was born in Minzu, Tibet and later became an Indian citizen, as did many of his relatives inclu ...

on May 1, 1963 * Barry Bishop,

Lute Jerstad Luther G. (Lute) Jerstad (1936 – 31 October 1998) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide who was a member of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition. He reached the summit of Mount Everest by the South Col route on May 22, 1963 with B ...

Willi Unsoeld William Francis Unsoeld (October 5, 1926 – March 4, 1979) was an American mountaineer who was a member of the first American expedition to summit Mount Everest. The American Mount Everest Expedition was led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, and included ...

and

Tom Hornbein Thomas Hornbein (born November 6, 1930) is an American mountaineer. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Hornbein developed an interest in geology as a teenager. His study of geology led to a fascination with mountains. Eventually he also be ...

on May 22, 1963 *

and 8 others

Indian Everest Expedition 1965 The 1965 Indian Everest Expedition reached the summit of Mount Everest on 20 May 1965. It was the first successful scaling of the mountain by an Indian climbing expedition. After the first conquest of Mount Everest in 1953 by the New Zeal ...

on May 20, 1965 * Avtar Singh Cheema * Sonam Gyatso * Sonam Wangyal * C. P. Vohra *

Ang Kami Ang Kami Sherpa was the member of the third Indian Everest expedition, led by Captain M S Kohliin 1965 which was first Indian successful Everest Expedition climbed Mount Everest, consisted of 21 major expedition members and 50 Sherpas. T ...

H. P. S. Ahluwalia Major Hari Pal Singh Ahluwalia (6 November 1936 – 14 January 2022) was an Indian mountaineer, author, social worker and Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) officer. During his career he made contributions in the fields of adventure, spor ...

* H. C. S. Rawat *

Phu Dorjee Sherpa Phu Dorjee Sherpa was the first Nepali man and twenty-third person in the world to climb Mount Everest. He was a member of the third Indian Everest Expedition 1965, led by Captain M S Kohli, which was the first successful Indian Everest Exp ...

1970s

In total, 78 people summited in the 1970s. These are some of the most notable ascents: *Four summited via South Col on the Saburo Matsukata 1970 expedition: #Teruo Matsuura # Naomi Uemura #Katsutoshi Hirabayashi #Chottare Sherpa *

Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and a teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent. Tabei wrote seven books, organized e ...

and Sherpa Ang Tshering I on May 16, 1975 * Phanthog on May 27, 1975 *

Doug Scott Douglas Keith Scott (29 May 19417 December 2020) was an English mountaineer, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. In receiving one of mountaineering's highest hon ...

and

Dougal Haston Duncan "''Dougal"'' Curdy MacSporran Haston (19 April 1940 – 17 January 1977) was a Scottish mountaineer noted for his exploits in the British Isles, Alps, and the Himalayas. From 1967 he was the director of the International School of Mountai ...

on September 24, 1975 ( 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition) *

Peter Boardman Peter Boardman (25 December 1950 – 17 May 1982) was an English mountaineer and author. He is best known for a series of bold and lightweight expeditions to the Himalayas, often in partnership with Joe Tasker, and for his contribution to mount ...

and Sirdar Pertemba Sherpa on September 26, 1975 *

Brummie Stokes John Henry Stokes MBE BEM (28 August 1945 – 10 January 2016), known as Brummie' Stokes, was a British Army soldier and mountaineer, known for his successful summit of Everest in 1976. Personal life Stokes was born in 1945 in Hamstead, then ...

and Bronco Lane on May 16, 1976 ( 1976 British Army expedition) * Ko Sang-don and Pemba Norbu Sherpa on Sept 15, 1977 *

Reinhold Messner Reinhold Andreas Messner (; born 17 September 1944) is an Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author from South Tyrol. He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and, along with Peter Habeler, the first ascent of Everest without supplemental ...

and

Peter Habeler Peter Habeler (born 22 July 1942) is an Austrian mountaineer. He was born in Mayrhofen, Austria. He developed an interest in mountain climbing at age six.http://www.everesthistory.com/climbers/habeler Among his accomplishments as a mountaineer a ...

on 8 May 1978 (first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen) *Austrian

Franz Oppurg Franz Oppurg (17 September 1948 – 9 March 1981) was an Austrian mountain climber. Having climbed from a young age, he became a mountain guide and rescuer, and did a number of first ascents in the winter of mountains in his native Karwendel. He ...

summited solo in 1978 *Sixteen people summited in October 1978 as part of the Franco-Deutsch expedition led by Dr. Karl Herrligkoffer: #Hubert Hillmaier #Sepp Mack (without supplementary oxygen) #Hans Engl #

Pierre Mazeaud Pierre Mazeaud (; born 24 August 1929) is a French jurist, politician and alpinist. In February 2004, he was appointed president of the Constitutional Council of France by President of France Jacques Chirac, replacing Yves Guéna, until he wa ...

Nicolas Jaeger Nicolas Jaeger (20 October 1946 – 27 April 1980) was a French physician and alpinist. Early life Jaeger was born on 20 October 1946 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, the son of photographer Janine Niépce. He made more than 100 solo ascen ...

Kurt Diemberger Kurt Diemberger (born 16 March 1932) is an Austrian mountaineer and author of several books. He is the only living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres: of Broad Peak in 1957 and of Dhaulagiri in 1960. Career ...

# Jean Afanassief #

Wanda Rutkiewicz Wanda Rutkiewicz (née Błaszkiewicz) ( 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountain climber and computer engineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Ev ...

# Robert Allenbach # Siegfried Hupfauer # Wilhelm Klimek #Ang Dorje (without supplementary oxygen) #Mingma Sherpa (without supplementary oxygen) #Ang Kami #George Ritter #Berndt Kullmann *

Sungdare Sherpa Sungdare Sherpa ( ne, सुन्दरे शेर्पा) born in 1956 in Thame village, Solukhumbu, Nepal was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest, who summited Everest on five different climbs. He was the first person to s ...

on 2 October 1979 *

Andrej Štremfelj Andrej Štremfelj (born 17 December 1956) is a Slovenian mountain climber, and in 2019, became the 10th recipient of the Piolet d'Or ''Lifetime Achievement Award''. Life and work Štremfelj was born in Kranj and got involved in mountain ...

and Nejc Zaplotnik on May 13, 1979 *

Stipe Božić Stipe Božić (born 2 January 1951) is a Croatian mountaineer, documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer. He is the most successful Croatian Himalayan climber. Božić completed the Seven Summits and is the second European, after Reinhold ...

, 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. Overall about 356 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 1989. These are some of the most notable ascents of the 1980s: *

Leszek Cichy Leszek () is a Slavic Polish male given name, originally ''Lestko'', ''Leszko'' or ''Lestek'', related to ''Lech'', ''Lechosław'' and Czech ''Lstimir''. Individuals named Leszek celebrate their name day on June 3. Notable people * Lestko * ...

and

Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Jerzy Wielicki (born 5 January 1950) is a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber, regarded as one of the greatest Polish climbers in history. He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders and the first ever to climb Mount ...

on February 17, 1980 (first winter ascent) *

Takashi Ozaki was a Japanese mountaineer. He is known for having made the first ascent of Mount Everest's north face and the first ascent of Myanmar's Hkakabo Razi. Biography Ozaki was born in Kameyama in Japan's Mie Prefecture. On May 10, 1980, Ozaki, wit ...

and Tsuneo Shigehiro on May 10, 1980 * Martin Zabaleta and Pasang Temba on May 14, 1980 * Jerzy Kukuczka and

Andrzej Czok Andrzej Czok (November 11, 1948 – January 11, 1986) was a Polish mountaineer best known for making the first winter ascent of Dhaulagiri on January 21, 1985 with Jerzy Kukuczka, and for the first ascent of the South Pillar route on Mount Evere ...

on May 19, 1980 *

on August 20, 1980 (first solo ascent) * Yasuo Kato * Eleven Soviet climbers in 1982 * 1982 Canadian Mount Everest Expedition ** Laurie Skreslet on October 5, 1982, with Sherpas Sungdare Sherpa and Lhakpa Dorje **Pat Morrow on October 7, 1982, with Sherpas Pema Dorje and Lhakpa Tshering * Yasuo Kato and c

Toshiaki Kobayashi Toshiaki is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Toshiaki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: *敏明, "agile, bright" *敏朗, "agile, clear" *敏晃, "agile, clear" *敏章, "agil ...

* Lou Reichardt, Kim Momb, and Carlos Buhler on October 8, 1983 * Dan Reid, George Lowe and Jay Cassell on October 9, 1983 *

in December 1983 *

Hristo Prodanov Hristo Prodanov ( bg, Христо Проданов) (24 February 1943 – 21 April 1984) was a Bulgarian mountaineer. Prodanov was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest, doing it via the most difficult way—the West Ridge—as well as alo ...

on April 20, 1984 * Metodi Savov and Ivan Valchev on May 8, 1984 *Nikolay Petkov and Kiril Doskov on May 9, 1984 * Bachendri Pal on May 23, 1984 *

Tim Macartney-Snape Tim Macartney-Snape (born 5 January 1956) is a mountaineer and author. On 3 October 1984 Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer were the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest. They reached the summit, climbing without supplementary ...

and

Greg Mortimer Greg Mortimer (born 10 December 1952) is an Australian mountaineer. Mortimer is notable as one of the first two Australians (with Tim Macartney-Snape) to successfully climb Mount Everest, on 3 October 1984. Their ascent, without supplemental o ...

on October 3, 1984 * Phil Ershle on October 2, 1984 * Zoltán Demján, Jozef Psotka and Sherpa

Ang Rita Ang Rita Sherpa ( ne, आङरिता शेर्पा; 27 July 194821 September 2020) was a Nepalis, Nepali mountain climber, mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest ten times without the use of supplemental oxygen between 1983 and 1996. H ...

on October 15, 1984 *1985 Norwegian Expedition led by Arne Naess, in April 1985Everest History.com - 1980-1985
/ref> **

Chris Bonington Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL (born 6 August 1934) is a British mountaineer. His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest. Early life and expeditions Bonington's father, w ...

** Ang Lhakpa Dorje Sherpa ** Dawa Nuru Sherpa ** Arne Naess (Arne Næss) ** Havard Nesheim **

** Stein Aasheim **

Ralph Hoibakk Ralph (pronounced ; or ,) is a male given name of English, Scottish and Irish origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf"). The most common forms ...

Sherpa ** Pema Dorje Sherpa ** Chhewang Rinzi Sherpa **

David Breashears David Finlay Breashears (born December 20, 1955) is an American mountaineer, filmmaker, author, and motivational speaker. In 1985, he reached the summit of Mount Everest a second time, becoming the first American to reach the summit of Mount Evere ...

Richard Bass Richard Daniel "Dick" Bass (December 21, 1929 – July 26, 2015) was an American businessman, rancher and mountaineer. He was the owner of Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah and the first man to climb the "Seven Summits", the tallest mountain on each con ...

** Ang Phurba Sherpa *1985

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...

Expedition: Òscar Cadiach, Antoni Sors and Carles Vallès with

Shambu Tamang Shambu "Shambhu" Tamang ( ne, शम्भू तामाङ; 20 October 1955 – 7 July 2022) was a Nepalese mountaineer who once held the record as the youngest person to successfully ascend Mount Everest, reaching the summit on May 5, 1973. ...

, Ang Karma and Narayan Shrestha on August 28, 1985 *

Erhard Loretan Erhard Loretan (28 April 1959 – 28 April 2011) was a Swiss mountain climber, often described as one of the greatest mountaineers of all times. Biography Loretan was born in Bulle in the canton of Fribourg. He trained as a cabinet maker (1979) ...

and

Jean Troillet Jean Troillet (born 10 March 1948) is a professional mountain climber. Of Swiss and Canadian nationality, he obtained his mountain guide qualifications in 1969. Also in 1969, and at the age of 21, he set a speed record for an ascent of the Matt ...

in 1986 *

Sharon Wood Sharon Adele Wood (born May 18, 1957), a Canadian mountaineer and guide, was the first North American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 20, 1986. She climbed via the new route of the west shoulder from the Rongbuk Glacier; with Dwa ...

and Dwayne Congdon on May 20, 1986 *

Jean-Marc Boivin Jean-Marc Boivin (6 April 1951 – 17 February 1990) was a French mountaineering, mountaineer, extreme skiing, extreme skier, hang gliding, hang glider and paragliding, paraglider pilot, Speleology, speleologist, BASE jumping, BASE jumper, filmmak ...

's 11-12 minute, descent to Camp II holds the altitude record for start of a paraglider flight *

Marc Batard Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system ...

in 1988 * A joint team from China,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, and Nepal on May 5, 1988 * Stephen Venables on May 12, 1988 * Stacy Allison on September 29, 1988 *

Lydia Bradey Lydia Pounamu Bradey (born 9 October 1961) is a New Zealand mountaineer. She became the first woman to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen in 1988. She has gone on to summit the mountain five more times. Early life Lydia Bradey was ...

on 16 October 1988 * Sungdare Sherpa on 10 May 1988 * Stipe Bozic, Viki Groselj,

Dimitar Ilievski-Murato Dimitar Ilievski-Murato ( mk, Димитар Илиевски-Мурато; 1953 in Bitola – 10 May 1989 in Mount Everest) was an alpinist from SR Macedonia representing SFR Yugoslavia, the first national of modern North Macedonia ever to climb ...

, and Sherpas Sonam and Agiva on May 10, 1989 * Ricardo Torres-Nava and Sherpas, Ang Lhakpa and Dorje on May 16, 1989 *

Carlos Carsolio Carlos Carsolio Larrea (born 4 October 1962 in Mexico City) is a Mexican mountain climber. Carsolio is known for being the fourth man (first non-European) and the second youngest to climb the world's 14 eight-thousander mountain peaks, all of ...

on July 18, 1989

1990s

In the 1990s, 3,017 people set off from Base Camp(s); around 900 reached the summit; 55 died.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/everest/etc/facts.html PBS - Storm on Everest - Teams on the Southeast Ridge May 10-11, 1996
/ref> Overall about 1237 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 1999. These are some of the most notable ascents in the 1990s: * International Peace Climb 1990 summiters in May 1990, led by

:Summiters 1990s
/ref> ** Robert Link ** Steve Gall ** Sergei Arsentiev ** Grigori Lunyakov ** Da Cheme ** Gyal Bu **

Ed Viesturs Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is a high-altitude mountaineer, corporate speaker, and well known author in the mountain climbing community. He is the only American to have climbed all 14 of the world's eight-thousander mountain peaks, and ...

**Mistislav Gorbenko **Andrej Tselishchev ** Ian Wade **Luo Tse **Da Qiong **Ren Na (aka Rena)http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/esum301-450.htm **Gui Sang ** Ekaterina Ivanova **Anatoli Moshnikov **Yervand Ilyinski **Aleksandr Tokarev **Mark Tucker **Wang Ja **Warren Thompson * Hooman Aprin on October 5, 1990 *

on October 5, 1990 *

Marija Marija is a feminine given name, a variation of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Depending on phonological rules concerning consecutiv ...

and Andrej Štremfelj on October 7, 1990 *

Peter Hillary Peter Edmund Hillary (born 26 December 1954) is a New Zealand mountaineer, philanthropist and writer. He is the son of adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Ev ...

, Gary Ball and

Rob Hall Robert Edwin Hall (14 January 1961 – 11 May 1996) was a New Zealand mountaineer. He was the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, a fellow guide, and two clients died. A best-selling account of the expedition was g ...

in 1990 *

Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal is an Indian Police official and mountaineer, known for climbing the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, in 1992. He was born on 10 January 1949 at the small village of Sachkhil in the Pauri Garhwal district of the I ...

in 1992 *

Alberto Iñurrategi Alberto Iñurrategi Iriarte (November 3, 1968) is a Basque Spanish mountaineer born in Aretxabaleta, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain). In the year 2002, he became the second Spaniard and Basque (after Juanito Oiarzabal) and the 10th person to cli ...

on 25.09.1992 * 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 Santosh Yadav (born 10 October 1967) is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 199 ...

in May 1992 * Mohan Singh Gunjyal on 12 May 1992 *

Kushang Sherpa Kushang Dorjee Sherpa (born 15 Feb 1965) is an Indian Sherpa mountaineer, who in 1998 became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest from three sides. In recognition of his achievements, Government of India in 2003 awarded him with ...

on May 10, 1993 *

and

Dicky Dolma Dicky Dolma (born 5 April 1974) is an Indian mountaineer, known for being the youngest woman to summit Mount Everest up to that time at the age of 19 on 10 May 1993. This occurred on the Indo-Nepal Everest Expedition. This Indo-Nepal Women's Eve ...

in May 1993 *

Veikka Gustafsson Eero Veikka Juhani Gustafsson, known as Veikka Gustafsson (born 14 January 1968) is a Finnish mountaineer who has ascended all 14 eight-thousanders in the world without the use of supplemental oxygen. He is also known for presenting a TV travel ...

in spring 1993 *

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Pasang Lhamu Sherpa (Sherpa: , ne, पासाङ ल्हामु शेर्पा; 10 December 1961 – 22 April 1993) was the first Nepalese woman to climb the summit of Mount Everest. She was born in a mountaineering family a ...

on April 22, 1993 *9 people lead by Steve Bell October 7, 1993http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/esum451-600.htm * Steve Bell on October 7, 1993 * Graham Hoyland on October 7, 1993 * Ginette Harrison on October 7, 1993 * Gary Pfisterer on October 7, 1993 * Scott McIvor on October 7, 1993 * Ramón Blanco on October 7, 1993 *

on May 10, 1993 * Park Young-seok on May 16, 1993 * Ninety commercial alpinists in the spring of 1993 *

Alison Hargreaves Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountain climber. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995. She soloed all the great ...

May 13, 1995 * Jim Litch on May 14, 1995http://www.everesthistory.com/everestsummits/summits95.htm * Dan Aguilar on May 14, 1995 * Wongchu Sherpa on May 14, 1995 * Apa Sherpa on May 15, 1995 * Brad Bull on May 15, 1995 * Tommy Heinrich on May 15, 1995 *

Caradog Jones Caradog "Crag" Jones (born 1962) is a Welsh climber. He is the first Welshman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a feat achieved on 23 May 1995. He was the 724th climber to reach the summit. The final ascent was made with Michael Knakkergaard- ...

on May 23, 1995 *

Pat Falvey Pat Falvey is an Irish high-altitude mountaineer, expedition leader, polar explorer, entrepreneur, author, corporate/personal trainer/coach, and motivational speaker. He was the first person to complete the Seven Summits (Bass) twice, with t ...

on 27 May 1995 * Kiyoshi Furuno and Shigeki Imoto in 1995 * 1996 Mount Everest disaster *

(with

Adventure Consultants Adventure Consultants, formerly Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants, is a New Zealand-based adventure company that brings trekking and climbing groups to various locations. Founded by Rob Hall and Gary Ball in 1991, it is known for its pion ...

) *

Scott Fischer Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide. He was renowned for his ascents of the world's highest mountains made without the use of supplemental oxygen. Fischer and Wally Berg were t ...

(with Mountain Madness) * Doug Hansen * Makalu Gau *

Lene Gammelgaard Lene Gammelgaard (born 18 December 1961) is a Danish mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. Gammelgaard is the 35th woman and the first Scandinavian woman to climb Mount Everest, reaching the peak via the South East Ridge route on 10 May ...

Yasuko Namba was the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei) to reach all of the Seven Summits. Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world. She first summited Kilimanjaro on N ...

Göran Kropp Lars Olof Göran Kropp (11 December 1966 – 30 September 2002) was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherp ...

May 1996, without extra bottle oxygenhttp://www.adventurestats.com/tables/esum751-900.htm *

, May 23, 1996, tenth and last time to summit Mount Everest. *

team including

Jamling Tenzing Norgay Jamling Tenzing Norgay (born 23 April 1965) is an Indian-Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. Biography Norgay is the son of mountaineer and guide Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third w ...

Araceli Segarra Araceli Segarra (born March 1970 in Lleida, Spain) is the first Spanish woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. She has also climbed Broad Peak (Attempt, 1991), Kanchenjunga (Attempts, 2001 and 2005), Shishapangma (Summit, 1992), and K2 ...

(see also the 1998 film ''

Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heigh ...

'') * Sherpa

summited ten times between 7 May 1983 and 23 May 1996 *

Hans Kammerlander Hans Kammerlander (born 6 December 1956, Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy) is an Italian mountaineer, living in Ahornach, a hamlet nearby Sand in Taufers. He has climbed 13 of the 14 8000m peaks. In 1984, together with Reinhold Messner he was the ...

1996 *

on May 17, 1996 * Francys and Sergei Arsentiev on May 24, 1998 * Bear Grylls,

Neil Laughton Neil Adrian Denis Laughton (born 31 October 1963) is a former army officer, entrepreneur and adventurer. He has completed the Explorers Grand Slam of climbing the highest mountains on all seven continents and reaching both the North and South P ...

and Alan Silva on May 26, 1998 * Tom Whittaker on May 27, 1998 *

on May 28, 1998 * Kazi Sherpa (aka Kaji Sherpa) on October 17, 1998 *

on May 28, 1999, until date summited from three sides of Mount Everest * Sherpa

Babu Chiri Sherpa Babu Chiri Sherpa (June 22, 1965 – April 29, 2001) was a Sherpa mountaineer from Nepal. He reached the summit of Mount Everest ten times. He held two world records on Everest. He spent 21 hours on the summit of Everest without auxiliary oxyge ...

in 1999 *

Phurba Tashi Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa ( ne, फूर्वा तासी शेर्पा, 1971) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer known for his numerous ascents of major Himalayan peaks. These include twenty-one ascents of Mount Everest, five on Ch ...

Sherpa *

Cathy O'Dowd Cathy O'Dowd (born 1968) is a South African rock climber, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both the south and the north sides on 25 May 1996 and 29 May 1999, respective ...

in 1999 * Elsa Ávila on May 5, 1999 * Renata Chlumska on May 5, 1999 * Ken Noguchi on May 13, 1999 * Iván Vallejo on May 25, 1999 * Merab Khabazi, and Irakli Ugulava on May 26, 1999 * Lev Sarkisov on May 12, 1999 * Karla S Wheelock on May 27, 1999http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/esum1051-1200.htm *

João Garcia João José Silva Abranches Garcia, (born 11 June 1967 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a leading mountaineer in Portugal. His main professional activities are as organizer and guide in mountaineering expeditions. On 18 May 1999 he became the first Portug ...

, on May 18, 1999 * Fabiano Segatto,on May 18,1999 at 12:23pm Everestsummiteersassociation.org/ * Willie Benegas in 1999 * George Dijmarescu on May 26, 1999

2000

In total, 146 people summited in 2000. Overall about 1383 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 2000. These are some of the most notable ascents in 2000: *

Lhakpa Sherpa Lhakpa Sherpa (also Lakpa) ( ne, Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most of any woman in the world. Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financ ...

2000About to scale peak a seventh time, Connecticut 7-Eleven clerk is Everest’s greatest ever female climber Barney Henderson, The Telegraph , May 16, 2016 12:12 PM ET
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Nazir Sabir Nazir Sabir (Urdu: نذیر صابر ) is a Pakistani mountaineer. He was born in Hunza. He has climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan, including the world's second highest mountain K2 in 1981, Gasherbrum II 8 ...

on May 17, 2000 * Frits Vrijlandt on May 17, 2000 * Toshio Yamamoto, summited at age 63Blind American Scales Mount Everest By Binaj Gurubacharya Associated Press Writer Friday, May 25, 2001
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on May 21, 2000 * Anna Czerwińska on May 22, 2000 *October 7, 2000 summiters included: ** Davo Karničar (Davorin) on October 7, 2000 **Franc Oderlap **Oliver Scoubes **Ang Dorje **Pasang Tenzing *On October 9, 2000 a group of three Slovenian climbers were the last of the year and this century to summit **

Tadej Golob Tadej Golob (born 1967) is a Slovene mountaineer and writer. Golob was born in Maribor in 1967 and grew up in the small town of Lenart v Slovenskih goricah in northeastern Slovenia. He moved to Ljubljana to study journalism but never complete ...

**Matej Flis **Grega Lačen

References

External links

EverestHistory.com Summits by year, until 2004
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