List of deaths on eight-thousanders

The eight-thousanders are the fourteen mountains that rise more than convert|8000|m|ft|0|lk=on above sea level; they are all in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges.

This is a list of some of the notable mountain climbers who have perished on these mountains.

Mount Everest

21 May 2008 - Uwe Gianni Goltz, Swiss climber (climbed without supplementary oxygen, only death on Everest in Spring 2008) [http://www.everestnews.com/everest2008/deatheverest05222008.htm]

17 May 2007 - Oh Hee-joon, Lee Hyun-jo, Pierangelo Maurizio, Czech climber, Japanese climber [http://mounteverest.net/news.php?news=16044]

26 April 2007 - Dawa Sherpa [http://www.everestnews.com/everest2007/mteverestdeath04272007.htm]

25 May 2006 - Thomas Weber [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=3310]

22 May 2006 - Igor Plyushkin [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=2088]

19 May 2006 - Vitor Negrete

17 May 2006 - Jacques-Hugues Letrange [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=2083]

16 May 2006 - Tomas Olsson [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=2072]

15 May 2006 - David Sharp

21 April 2006 - Ang Phinjo Sherpa, Lhakkpa Tseri Sherpa, Dawa Temba Sherpa [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=2072]

4 April 2006 - Tuk Bahadur [http://www.himex.com/c_pub/en/news/2006/everest_dispatch_no_1.php]

5 June 2005 - Rob Milne [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/everest/]

4 June 2005 - Dieter Kramer [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=186]

21 May 2005 - Marko Lihteneker [http://www.everestnews.com/everestupdatesnorth2005/russianeverest2005u05252005.htm]

29 April 2005 - Sean Egan [http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/mount_everest/]

1 May 2005 - Mike O'Brien [ [http://www.mounteverest.net/story/SecondfatalityonEverestthisspringAmericanMikeOBrienfallstodeathinacrevasseMay22005.shtml Second fatality on Everest this spring: American Mike O'Brien falls to death in a crevasse] ]

24 May 2004 - Mariana Maslarova [http://www.everestnews2004.com/everestnews4/international2everest2004.htm]

23 May 2004 - Shoto Ota [http://www.everestnews2004.com/everestnews3/deathcountgrowsoneverest05292004.htm]

20 May 2004 - Hristo Hristov, 3 Korean climbers [http://www.everestnews2004.com/everestnews3/deathcountgrowsoneverest05292004.htm]

18 May 2004 - Nils Antezana [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9241-2004Nov24.html]

24 May 2003 - Karma Gylzen Sherpa [http://www.teameverest03.org/press/releases/2003-05-26_karma_sherpa.html]

9 September 2002 - Marco Siffredi [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0927_020927_siffredi.html]

30 April 2002 - Peter Legate [http://www.k2news.com/peterl.htm]

24 May 2001 - Mark Auricht [http://www.k2news.com/aust.htm] , Peter Ganner [http://www.k2news.com/ints.htm] , Alexei Nikiforov [http://www.k2news.com/risk.htm]

29 April 2001 - Babu Chiri Sherpa

1999 - Mike Matthews

24 May 1998 - Francys Arsentiev, Sergei Arsentiev [http://www.everestnews.com/stories2007/fran05012007.htm]

September 1996 - Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa

1998 - Mark Jennings, Ryan Keene

1997 - Malcolm Duff, Peter Kuwalzik, Ivan Plotnikov, Nikolai Shevchenko, Alexander Toroschin [http://old.risk.ru/eng/mount/himalaya/statist/1997/]

27 May 1996 - Mike Rheinberger [http://www.everestnews.com/history/climbers/mikerheinberger.htm]

25 May 1996 - Bruce Herrod [http://www.cathyodowd.com/ev96/96_bruce.html]

19 May 1996 - Reinhard Wlasich

10-11 May 1996 - The 1996 Everest Disaster: Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, Doug Hansen, Andy Harris, Dorje Morup, Yasuko Namba, Tsewang Paljor ("Green Boots"), Tsewang Smanla

9 May 1996 - Chen Yu Nan

1993 - Lobsang Tshering, Sonam Tshering, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, An Jin Seob

1991 - Gabriel DeLeon, Junichi Futagami

27 May 1989 - Eugeniusz Chrobak

1989 - Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, Phu Dorje Sherpa

1988 - Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, Pasang Temba Sherpa, Jozef Just, Peter Božík, Dušan Becík and Jaroslav Jaško

1987 - Mangal Singh Tamang [http://www.everest1953.co.uk/4.html]

1985 - Shinichi Ishii, Juanjo Navarro

1984 - Fred From, Craig Nottle

1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Tony Swierzy [http://www.everest1953.co.uk/4.html] , Jozef Psotka

1983 - Hiroshi Yoshino

December 1982 - Yasuo Kato [http://www.everestnews.com/history/climbers/kato.htm]

17 May 1982 - Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker

1982 - Marty Hoey, Blair Griffiths

1980 - Akira Ube

2 October 1979 - Hannelore Schmatz

13 May 1979 - Ang Phu Sherpa [http://www.everestnews.com/history/climbers/stremfeli.htm]

1979 - Wang Hong-Bo, Ray Genet, Lou San, Nima Tashi Sherpa

1976 - Terry Thompson [http://www.everest1953.co.uk/3.html]

1975 - Wu Tseng-yue, Mick Burke Chris Bonington, "Mountaineer", Diadem Books, 1989, ISBN 0-906371-97-X]

9 September 1974 - Gerard Devouassoux, Lhakpa Sherpa, Sanu Wongal Sherpa, Pemba Dorje Sherpa, Nawang Lutuk Sherpa, Nima Wangchu Sherpa [http://www.everestnews.com/history/climbers/stremfeli.htm]

1972 - Tony Tighe [http://www.everest1953.co.uk/3.html]

1971 - Harsh Bahuguna

1966 - Ma Gao-Shu

1963 - Jake Breitenbach [http://www.exumguides.com/news/everest.shtml]

1960 - Wang Ji, Shao Shi-Ching [http://www.everestnews2004.com/malloryandirvine2004/deathsnorthside.htm]

1956 - Cheong Wen Ping, Wang Tsu Ming

1952 - Mingma Dorje [http://www.everestnews.com/history/1950-1975.htm]

June 1934 - Maurice Wilson

8-9 June 1924 - Andrew Irvine, George Mallory

1922 - Norbu (Sherpa), Lhakpa (Sherpa), Pasang (Sherpa), Pema (Sherpa), Sange (Sherpa), Dorje (Sherpa), Temba (Sherpa) [ http://classic.mountainzone.com/everest/99/north/history.html]

K2

3 August 2008 - The August 2008 K2 climbing accident: Hugues d'Aubarede, Rolf Bae, Jehan Baig, Jumic Bhote, Pasang Bhote, Dong-Jin Hwang, Meherban Karim, Hyo-Gyeong Kim, Dren Mandić, Gerard McDonnell, Hyo-Kyeong Park [http://www.everestnews.com/pak2008/k22008sadnews081020080101.htm]

2006 - Yuri Uteshev, Alexander Foigt, Arkady Kuvakin, Petr Kuznetsov

2004 - Manel de la Matta, Lee Hwa-hyong, Kim Jae-yong, Pae Kyong-kyu, Alanxander Gubaev, Dauoud Khadem Asl, Segey Sokolov

1995 - Alison Hargreaves, Javier Olivar, Rob Slater, Javier Escartin, Lorenzo Ortiz, Bruce Grant, Jeff Lakes

31 July 1993 - Daniel Bidner [http://www.utemagasinet.se/nyheter/article239049.ece]

7 July 1993 - Dan Culver [http://www.followyourdreams.ca/k2article2.html]

15 June 1993 - Boštjan Kekec [http://www.gore-ljudje.net/novosti/4759/]

1992 - Adrián Benítez (Mexico)

1988 - Peter Bozik [http://www.k2climb.net/story/BestofExplorersWeb2004AwardMagicLineDec312004.shtml]

23-24 June 1986 - Lilliane Barrard, Maurice Barrard

1986 - Alan Rouse, Alfred Imitzer, Julie Tullis, Hannes Wieser, Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf, Tadeusz Piotrowski , Wojtek Wroz [http://www.k2climb.net/story/BestofExplorersWeb2004AwardMagicLineDec312004.shtml]

July 1985 - Daniel Lacroix [http://www.everestnews.com/sumk2.htm]

April 1982 - Yukihiro Yanagisawa [http://www.everestnews.com/sumk2.htm]

1978 - Nick Estcourt

1957 - J. Culbert

1954 - Mario Puchoz

1953 - Art Gilkey

Kangchenjunga

28 May 2007 - Iñigo de Pineda [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?news=16026]

24 May 2002 - Christopher Grasswick [http://www.gripped.com/News/19_oct_2002/]

20 September 1999 - Han Do Kyu, Hyung Myeong Keun [http://www.k2news.com/sept299.htm]

6 October 1995 - Benoît Chamoux

12-13 May 1992 - Wanda Rutkiewicz

3 May 1991 - Marija Frantar, Jože Rozman [http://www.gore-ljudje.net/novosti/4759/]

11 January 1986 - Andrzej Czok

22 April 1985 - Borut Bergant, descending from Kangchenjunga West (Yalung Kang) [http://www.gore-ljudje.net/novosti/4759/]

15 May 1973 - Takeo Matsuda [http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/1974/202_nepal_aaj1974.pdf]

1930 - Chettan (porter)

1929 - E. Farmer

1 September 1905 - Alexis Pache, three others [http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/confess/chapter52.html]

Cho Oyu

4 October 2008 - Miha Valič

9 May 2002 - Adam Cinnamond [http://www.k2news.com/chooyu02ireland.htm]

2000 - Pavle Milošević

5 May 2000 - Pavel Bonadysenko, Noora Toivonen [http://www.cetneva.spb.ru/en_cho3.htm]

12 May 1988 - Stefan Wörner [http://www.adventurestats.com/news/news.shtml]

1959 - Claude Kogan [http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1134038/]

Lhotse

22 May 2007 - Pemba Doma Sherpa, two others [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6684649.stm]

10 May 2006 - Pavel Kalny [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=1969]

1997 - Vladimir Bashkirov [http://old.risk.ru/eng/mount/himalaya/statist/1997/]

24 October 1989 - Jerzy Kukuczka

Makalu

27 January 2006 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille

2005 - Sumbu Sherpa

18 May 2004 - Jay Sieger, Vladislav Terzyul [http://www.everestnews2004.com/everestnews4/missingonmaklau2004.htm]

8 May 2002 - Raymond Caughron [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/08/BA158769.DTL]

1999 - Michael Joergensen

1997 - Igor Bugachevski, Salavat Khabibulin [http://old.risk.ru/eng/mount/himalaya/statist/1997/]

1983 - Mark Moorhead

Dhaulagiri

05 May 2008 - Rafael Guillén [http://www.alpinismonline.com]

05 May 2008 - Darío Bracali [http://www.alpinismonline.com]

12 May 2007 - Santiago Sagaste, Ricardo Valencia [http://www.everestnews.com/stories2007/hc05222007.htm]

30 April 2007 - Sergio Della Longa [http://www.everestnews.com/stories2007/dhau05082007.htm]

24 October 1999 - Ginette Harrison

16 May 1998 - Chantal Mauduit

6 October 1993 - Gary Ball [http://7summits.com/info/stats2/index2.php?_=d&familyname=Ball]

Manaslu

28 May 2006 - Sue Fear

1995 - Joerg Schtarke, Michael Zunk

1993 - Igor Khmiliar, Sergei Yadrishnikov

1992 - Sylwia Domowska, Sven Vermeiren

10 May 1991 - Gottfried Mutschlechner [http://www.adventurestats.com/news/news.shtml]

1990 - Nancy Jackson, Charlie Schertz, Nima Wangchuk Sherpa, Zinur Halitov, Grigory Lunjakov, Murat Galiev

1989 - Santiago Suarez

1987 - Ichigi Kudo

1986 - Wilhelm Kleiber, Dieter Oberbichler

1985 - Nima Norbu Sherpa, Thomas Juen

24 April 1983 - Nejc Zaplotnik, Ante Bućan [http://www.gore-ljudje.net/novosti/4759/]

1983 Stanislaw Jaworski

10 May 1982 - Enric Font, Pere Aymerich [http://www.adventurestats.com/news/news.shtml]

1982 - Takashi Sakuma

1979 - Edgardo Jose Porsellana

1974 - Sadako Suzuki

1971 - Kim Ki-Sup

Nanga Parbat

2008 - Saman Nemati

15 July 2008 - Karl Unterkircher

22 July 2006 - José Antonio Delgado

1985 - Piotr Kalmus

28 June 1970 - Günther Messner [http://www.camp4.com/news/index.php?newsid=519]

1962 - Siegi Löw

16 July 1934 - Willy Merkl, Wilo Welzenbach, 6 Sherpas, 1-2 others [http://www.willi-merkl-huette.de/]

1932 - Elbridge Herron

24 August 1895 - Albert F. Mummery, Goman Singh, Ragobir Singh

Annapurna I

23 May 2008 - Iñaki Ochoa de Olza [http://www.alpinismonline.com/alpinistas.asp?id=6]

18 May 2005 - Christian Kuntner [http://www.mounteverest.net/story/stories/ChristianKuntner-amountaineeringlegendisgoneMay202005.shtml]

2004 - Shuji Nazuka [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20070521TDY03001.htm]

29 April 1999 - Ji Hyun-Ok [http://www.mielu.ro/munte/articole/top_on_8000_peaks.html]

25 December 1997 - Anatoli Boukreev

1992 - Pierre BéghinAndy Fanshawe and Stephen Venables, "Himalaya Alpine-Style", Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64931-3, pp. 131-132.]

1982 - Alex MacIntyre

1978 - Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz, Vera Watson [http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ben350.html]

Gasherbrum I

18 June 2008 - Jean-Noel Urban [http://skinnymoose.com/adventurist/2008/06/21/jean-noel-urban-french-extreme-skier-killed-in-accident-on-gasherbrum-i/]

September 2003 - Mohammad Oraz [ [http://www.k2news.com/pak2003/irang2.htm Iranian expedition] ]

9 July 2001 - Claudius Gálvez [http://www.k2news.com/g1c.htm]

9-10 June 1977 - Drago Bregar [http://www.gore-ljudje.net/novosti/4759/]

Broad Peak

30 Jun 2008 - Vlado Plulik [http://www.alpinismonline.com]

8 July 2006 - Markus Kronthaler

1983 - Peter Thexton

Gasherbrum II

28 July 2000 - Felix Iñurrategui [http://www.k2news.com/a02/a02jcldis12.htm]

Shishapangma

31 October 2006 - Bruno Carvalho

5 October 1999 - Alex Lowe, David Bridges

See also

* Lists of people by cause of death

References

External links

* [http://www.8000ers.com/cms/download.html?func=select&id=4 Eight-thousanders fatalities tables (E. Jurgalski)]