Sungdare Sherpa ( ne, सुन्दरे शेर्पा) born in 1956 in Thame village,
Solukhumbu
Solukhumbu District ( ne, सोलुखुम्बु जिल्ला , Sherpa: , Wylie: shar khum bu dzong) is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal. As the name suggests, it consists of the subregions Solu and Khumbu. ...
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Nepal
Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
was a
Nepalese Sherpa Sherpa may refer to:
Ethnography
* Sherpa people, an ethnic group in north eastern Nepal
* Sherpa language
Organizations and companies
* Sherpa (association), a French network of jurists dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility
* ...
guide for climbers of
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is List of highest mountains on Earth, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border ru ...
, who summited Everest on five different climbs. He was the first person to summit Mount Everest three times.
Climbing career
Sungdare was with
Hannelore Schmatz
Hannelore Schmatz (16 February 1940 – 2 October 1979) was a German mountaineer who was the fourth woman to summit Mount Everest. She collapsed and died as she was returning from summiting Everest via the southern route; Schmatz was the fir ...
when she died on a 1979 expedition. He remained with her after she died, and as a result, lost most of his fingers and toes to frostbite.
Despite losing his digits, Sungdare summitted Mount Everest four more times after the 1979 expedition.
Death
Sungdare drowned in a river below his village,
Pangboche
Pangboche or Panboche is a village in Khumjung VDC of Solukhumbu District in Province No. 1 of Nepal at an altitude of . It is located high in the Himalaya in the Imja Khole valley, about 3 kilometres northeast of Tengboche and is a base camp fo ...
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Nepal
Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
in 1989.
Elizabeth Hawley
Elizabeth Hawley (9 November 1923 – 26 January 2018) was an American journalist, author, and chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering expeditions. Hawley's ''The Himalayan Database'' became the unofficial record for climbs in the Nepalese Himal ...
stated that he had alcoholism and that his death was a suicide.
He was survived by his widow, Bhingfuti.
As quoted in an article in ''Backpacker'' magazine talking about Mount Everest:
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Ascents of Everest
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#1981][ October summiting][Everest 80s to 85]
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#1982[ October summiting][
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See also
*
*List of Mount Everest guides
This is a list of notable Mount Everest guides, which are professional mountaineers (and mountaineering firms) who help people to ascend Mount Everest in the Himalayas in return for fees. Previously, the summit was only accessible to expert mounta ...
*List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at is currently the world's highest mountain 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 Evere ...
References
Further reading
The Backpacker - May 1986
(Google Books link)
Year of birth missing
1989 suicides
Nepalese mountain climbers
Nepalese people with disabilities
Sherpa summiters of Mount Everest
Suicides by drowning
Suicides in Nepal
Nepalese Buddhists
People from Solukhumbu District
Nepalese female mountain climbers
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