The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains that rise more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level. They are all in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. This is a list of mountaineers who have died on these mountains.
By Mountain
Mount Everest
Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) above sea level, has been host to numerous tragedies. Deaths have occurred on the mountain every year since 1978, excluding 2020, when permits were not issued due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most notable deadly events on Everest were the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition, 1970 Mount Everest disaster, 1974 French Mount Everest expedition, 1996 Mount Everest disaster, 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, 2015 Mount Everest avalanches and 2023 Mount Everest season. As of December 2024, there had been 12,884 successful summits, and 340 people had died either before or after reaching the peak. Since 2019 the Nepali government has initiated periodic "clean-up" campaigns on the mountain, including bodies of climbers.
K2
K2 is the world's second-highest mountain at 8,611 meters (28,251 ft) above sea level. It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang. While its summit is at a lower altitude than the summit of Mount Everest, it is considered a much harder mountain to climb due to its steep faces and extreme weather. The most deadly events on K2 were the 1986 K2 disaster, 1995 K2 disaster, and 2008 K2 disaster. As of August 2023, an estimated 800 people had completed a summit, and 96 had died on the mountain.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2025 | Jing Guan | China | Rock fall | |
| 18 July 2025 | Iftikhar Hussain | Pakistan | Avalanche | |
| 28 July 2024 | Kazuya Hiraide | Japan | Unknown, possible fall | |
| Kenro Nakajima | ||||
| 14 July 2024 | Ser Muhammad | Pakistan | Acute mountain sickness | |
| 27 July 2023 | Muhammad Hassan Shigri | Pakistan | Unknown | |
| 22 July 2022 | Matthew Eakin | Australia | Fall | |
| Richard Cartier | Canada | Fall | ||
| 21 July 2022 | Ali Akbar Sakhi | Afghanistan | Unknown, suspected altitude sickness | |
| 25 July 2021 | Rick Allen | United Kingdom | Avalanche | |
| 5 February 2021 | Ali Sadpara | Pakistan | 2021 K2 disaster: Froze to death in storm, remains found July 2021 | |
| Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto | Chile | |||
| John Snorri Sigurjónsson | Iceland | |||
| 5 February 2021 | Atanas Skatov | Bulgaria | Fall during descent from Camp 3 | |
| 16 January 2021 | Sergi Mingote | Spain | Fall during descent from Camp 1 | |
| 22 July 2018 | Watanabe Kojiro | Japan | Fall during descent | |
| 7 July 2018 | Serge Dessureault | Canada | Fall | |
| 30 July 2014 | Miguel Ángel Pérez | Spain | Unclear, likely altitude sickness | |
| 26/27 July 2013 | Marty Schmidt | New Zealand / United States | Avalanche | |
| Denali Schmidt | ||||
| 6 February 2012 | Vitaliy Gorelik | Russia | Frostbite | |
| 6 August 2010 | Fredrik Ericsson | Sweden | Fall from the Bottleneck | |
| 17 July 2010 | Petar Georgiev Unzhiev | Bulgaria | Altitude sickness | |
| 23 June 2009 | Michele Fait | Italy | Fall with skis | |
| 2 August 2008 | Hwang Dong-jin | South Korea | 2008 K2 disaster | |
| Park Kyeong-hyo | ||||
| Kim Hyo-gyung | ||||
| Pasang Bhote | Nepal | |||
| Jumic Bhote | ||||
| Gerard McDonnell | Ireland | Second or third serac fall | ||
| Meherban Karim | Pakistan | |||
| 1/2 August 2008 | Hugues d'Aubarède | France | Fall during descent | |
| 1 August 2008 | Rolf Bae | Norway | First serac fall | |
| Jahan Baig | Pakistan | Fall while trying to recover Mandić's corpse | ||
| Dren Mandić | Serbia | Fall during ascent | ||
| 20 July 2007 | Stefano Zavka | Italy | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| Nima Nurbu | Nepal | Fall from the Bottleneck | ||
| 13 August 2006 | Arkadi Kuvakin | Russia | Avalanche | |
| Aleksandr Foigt | ||||
| Petr Kuznetsov | ||||
| Yuri Uteshev | ||||
| 19 August 2004 | Manel de la Matta Sastre | Spain | Peritonitis | |
| 2 August 2004 | Davoud Khadem Asl | Iran | Lost in storm, presumed dead | |
| Sergei Sokolov | Russia | |||
| 28 July 2004 | Aleksandr Gubaev | Kyrgyzstan | Fall | |
| 8 June 2004 | Pae Kyong-kyu | South Korea | Avalanche | |
| Kim Jae-koung | ||||
| Lee Hwa-hyeung | ||||
| 21 July 2003 | Klaus-Dieter Grohs | Germany | Fall | |
| 22 July 2002 | Muhammad Iqbal | Pakistan | Fall | |
| 13 July 2002 | Sher Ajman | Pakistan | Avalanche | |
| 22 July 2001 | Park Young-do | South Korea | Fall | |
| 10 July 1999 | Mihai Cioroianu | Romania | Hit by rockfall | |
| 14 August 1996 | Igor Benkin | Russia | Exhaustion | |
| 29 July 1996 | Lorenzo Mazzoleni | Italy | Fall | |
| 15 August 1995 | Jeff Lakes | Canada | Exhaustion | |
| 13 August 1995 | Bruce Grant | New Zealand | 1995 K2 disaster | |
| Rob Slater | United States | |||
| Alison Hargreaves | United Kingdom | |||
| Javier Escartin | Spain | |||
| Javier Olivar | ||||
| Lorenzo Ortiz | ||||
| 6 July 1995 | Jordi Anglès Soler | Spain | Fall | |
| 11 August 1994 | Juan Antonio "Atxo" Apellániz | Spain | HACE | |
| 24 July 1994 | Steve Untch | United States | Fall from broken rope while trying to assist injured Michael Groom off the mountain. | |
| 10 July 1994 | Dmitri Ibragim-Zade | Ukraine | Killed in a storm | |
| Aleksandr Parkhomenko | ||||
| Aleksei Kharaldin | ||||
| 31 July 1993 | Daniel Bidner | Sweden | Altitude sickness, fall | |
| 30 July 1993 | Reinmar Joswig | Germany | Fall | |
| Peter Mezger | Fall | |||
| 7 July 1993 | Dan Culver | Canada | Fall | |
| 15 June 1993 | Boštjan Kekec | Slovenia | Altitude sickness | |
| 14 August 1992 | Adrián Benítez | Mexico | Fall | |
| 28 July 1989 | Hans Bärnthaler | Austria | Avalanche | |
| 24 August 1987 | Suzuki Akira | Japan | Fall | |
| 10 August 1986 | Dobrosława Miodowicz-Wolf | Poland | Exhaustion | |
| Alfred Imitzer | Austria | Altitude sickness | ||
| Hannes Wieser | Altitude sickness | |||
| Alan Rouse | United Kingdom | Altitude sickness | ||
| 7 August 1986 | Julie Tullis | United Kingdom | Altitude sickness | |
| 4 August 1986 | Mohammad Ali | Pakistan | Stonefall | |
| 3 August 1986 | Wojciech Wróż | Poland | Fall | |
| 16 July 1986 | Renato Casarotto | Italy | Fall into crevasse on De Filippi glacier, approaching base camp | |
| 10 July 1986 | Tadeusz Piotrowski | Poland | Fall | |
| 24 June 1986 | Maurice Barrard | France | Disappeared, remains found in 1998 near Camp 1 | |
| Liliane Barrard | Disappeared, remains found 19 July 1986, near the South Face | |||
| 21 June 1986 | John Smolich | United States | Avalanche | |
| Alan Pennington | ||||
| 7 July 1985 | Daniel Lacroix | France | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 15 August 1982 | Yanagisawa Yukihiro | Japan | Fall | |
| 30 July 1982 | Halina Krüger-Syrokomska | Poland | Stroke | |
| 19 August 1979 | Laskhar Khan | Pakistan | Stroke | |
| 9 June 1979 | Ali, Son of Kazim | Pakistan | Fall into crevasse | |
| 12 June 1978 | Nick Estcourt | United Kingdom | Avalanche | |
| 21 June 1954 | Mario Puchoz | Italy | Pneumonia | |
| 10 August 1953 | Art Gilkey | United States | Avalanche | |
| 31 July 1939 | Pasang Kikuli | Nepal | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| Pasang Kitar | ||||
| Pintso | ||||
| 30 July 1939 | Dudley Wolfe | United States | Altitude sickness, severe dehydration |
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit sits at 8,586 meters (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas called the Kangchenjunga Himal. Because of its remote location in Nepal and the difficulty of accessing it from India, the Kangchenjunga region is not much explored by trekkers. Despite modern improvements to climbing gear, the fatality rate of summit attempts on Kanchenjunga is high. While there had been 532 successful summits as of May 2022, 52 climbers had lost their lives on the mountain. 10 more climbers had died on Yalung Kang (Kangchenjunga West), one of several satellite peaks in the massif, which features routes to the summit of Kangchenjunga.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2025 | Margareta Morin | France | Fell ill and rescue could not be made | |
| 25 May 2023 | Luis Stitzinger | Germany | HAPE and HACE | |
| 5 May 2022 | Narayanan Iyer | India | Altitude sickness | |
| 16 May 2019 | Biplab Baidya | India | Exposure, frostbite | |
| Kuntal Kanrar | ||||
| 15 May 2019 | Rodrigo Francisco Vivanco Figueroa | Chile | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 20 May 2014 | Chhanda Gayen | India | Fall on descent above Camp 4 on Yalung Kang | |
| Migma Temba Sherpa | Nepal | |||
| Dawa Wangchu Sherpa | ||||
| 20 May 2013 | Bibas Gurung Sherpa | Nepal | Fall | |
| Phu Dorchi Sherpa | Fall | |||
| Park Nam-soo | South Korea | Fall | ||
| Péter Kiss | Hungary | Fall on descent above Camp 4 | ||
| Zsolt Erőss | Exhaustion | |||
| 24 May 2007 | Iñigo de Pineda Blanc | Spain | Fall | |
| 24 May 2002 | Christopher Hugh "Chris" Grasswick | Canada | Fall | |
| 23 April 2000 | Ang Dawa Tamang | Nepal | Hit by ice block | |
| 14 September 1999 | Hyun Myeong-kun | South Korea | Avalanche | |
| Han Do-kyu | ||||
| 16 May 1998 | Shiina Atsushi | Japan | Altitude sickness | |
| Akasaka Kenzo | Fall | |||
| 6 October 1995 | Benoît Chamoux | France | Fall | |
| Riku Sherpa | Nepal | Fall | ||
| 5 October 1995 | Pierre Alain Royer | France | Fall | |
| Autumn 1995 | Sukaraj Limbu | Nepal | Altitude sickness | |
| 23 October 1994 | Iordanka Ivanova Dimitrova | Bulgaria | Avalanche | |
| 9 October 1994 | Sergei Zhvirblya | Belarus | Avalanche | |
| Ekaterina Ivanova | Russia | |||
| 13 May 1992 | Wanda Rutkiewicz | Poland | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 25 April 1992 | Ang Dorje Sherpa | Nepal | Suffocation | |
| Lhakpa Nuru Sherpa | ||||
| 16 May 1991 | Pasang Sherpa | India | Fall | |
| 3 May 1991 | Jože Rozman | Yugoslavia | Fall | |
| Marija Frantar | Fall | |||
| 20 December 1989 | Tchiring Chumbi Lama Sherpa | Nepal | Fall on Yalung Kang | |
| Ang Dawa Sherpa | ||||
| Jin Kyo-sup | South Korea | |||
| 17 May 1988 | Sanjay Borole | India | Exhaustion | |
| 31 May 1987 | Chander Singh | India | Fall | |
| 25 May 1987 | Choten Tsering | India | Fall | |
| Phupu Bhotia | ||||
| Phu Dorjee | ||||
| 11 January 1986 | Andrzej "Leszek" Czok | Poland | Altitude sickness | |
| 22 April 1985 | Borut Bergant | Yugoslavia | Fall on Yalung Kang | |
| 15 January 1985 | Chris Howard Chandler | United States | Altitude sickness | |
| 15 October 1981 | Jean-Jacques Ricouard | France | Fall | |
| 4 May 1980 | Alfonso Medina Rubio | Mexico | Fall on Yalung Kang | |
| Sergio Hugo Saldaña Meneses | Fall on Yalung Kang | |||
| 8 April 1977 | Sukhvinder Singh | India | Fall | |
| 15 May 1973 | Matsuda Takao | Japan | Hit by rock after summitting Yalung Kang | |
| 26 May 1955 | Pemi Dorje Sherpa | India | Unknown illness | |
| 9 August 1931 | Hermann "Xaverl" Schaller | Germany | Avalanche | |
| Pasang Sherpa | British Raj | |||
| August 1931 | Babu Lall | British Raj | Blackwater fever | |
| July 1931 | Lobsang | British Raj | Unknown illness | |
| 8 May 1930 | Chettan Sherpa | British Raj | Avalanche | |
| 27 May 1929 | Edgar Francis Farmer | United States | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 1 September 1905 | Unknown | British Raj | Fall | |
| Unknown | ||||
| Unknown | ||||
| Alexis A. Pache | Switzerland | |||
| 28 August 1905 | Unnamed porter | British Raj |
Lhotse
Standing at 8,516 meters (27,940 ft) above sea level, Lhotse is the fourth-highest mountain in the world. It is part of the Everest massif, and its standard climbing route follows the same path as Everest's South Col route up to the Yellow Band beyond Camp 3. After the Yellow Band, the routes diverge with climbers bound for Everest taking a left over the Geneva Spur up to the South Col, while Lhotse climbers take a right further up the Lhotse face. As of May 2022, there had been 1,089 successful summits and 22 deaths on Lhotse. A further 10 deaths had occurred on Lhotse Shar, a subsidiary mountain of Lhotse that offers a more difficult climb to Lhotse's peak than the standard route.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2025 | Barna Zsolt Vago | Romania | unknown | |
| 18 May 2025 | Rakesh Kumar | India | Collapse on descent | |
| 20 May 2024 | Gabriel Viorel Tabara | Romania | Found dead in tent | |
| 8 May 2022 | Khudam Bir Tamang | Nepal | Avalanche on south face | |
| 17 May 2019 | Ivan Tomov | Bulgaria | HACE | |
| 17 May 2018 | Rustem Amirov | Russia | Altitude sickness | |
| 19 May 2016 | Ang Phurba Sherpa | Nepal | Fall | |
| 27 April 2015 | Yomagato Horoshi | Japan | 2015 Mount Everest avalanche (died in Kathmandu of injuries) | |
| 25 April 2015 | Ge Zhen-fang | China | 2015 Mount Everest avalanche | |
| 18 April 2014 | Asman Tamang | Nepal | 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche | |
| 20 May 2013 | Lee Hsiao-shih | Taiwan | Altitude sickness | |
| 16 October 2012 | Temba Sherpa | Nepal | Fall | |
| 19 May 2012 | Milan Sedláček | Czech Republic | Exposure, frostbite | |
| 7 May 2010 | Sergei Duganov | Russia | Altitude sickness | |
| 25 May 2009 | Sergei Samoilov | Kazakhstan | Fall | |
| 21 May 2007 | Pemba Doma Thaktopa Sherpa | Nepal | Fall | |
| 9 May 2006 | Pavel Kalný | Czech Republic | Fall | |
| 5 October 2003 | Hwang Sun-dug | South Korea | Avalanche on Lhotse Shar | |
| Park Joo-hoon | ||||
| 17 September 2000 | Vladimir Bondarev | Russia | Avalanche | |
| 27 May 1997 | Vladimir Bachkirov | Russia | Altitude sickness | |
| 24 October 1989 | Jerzy Kukuczka | Poland | Fall | |
| 27 September 1987 | Antoni Sors i Ferrer | Spain | Avalanche on Lhotse Shar | |
| Sergio Reinaldo Escalera Fernandez | ||||
| Francisco Porras Cerda | ||||
| Antonio Quiñones Tores | ||||
| 15 September 1987 | Czesław Jakiel | Poland | Avalanche | |
| 30 October 1986 | Pedro Alonso Lopez | Spain | Fall on Lhotse Shar | |
| 25 October 1985 | Rafał Chołda | Poland | Fall | |
| 25 October 1981 | Josef Fauchere | Switzerland | Fall on Lhotse Shar | |
| 16 October 1981 | Philippe Petten | Switzerland | Fall on Lhotse Shar | |
| Pierre Favez | Fall on Lhotse Shar | |||
| 17 May 1980 | Pasang Nima Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1980 | Nicolas Jaeger | France | Unknown (disappeared on Lhotse Shar) | |
| 12 May 1977 | Max Lutz | West Germany | Fall | |
| 17 December 1974 | Stanisław Latałło | Poland | Exhaustion |
Makalu
Makalu is the world's fifth-highest mountain at 8,481 meters (27,825 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest on the China–Nepal border. As of December 2024, there had been 800 successful summits of Makalu and 50 deaths on the mountain.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2025 | Alex Pancoe | USA | Cardiac arrest | |
| 14 May 2024 | Johnny Saliba | France | Altitude sickness | |
| 7 May 2024 | Lakpa Tenji Sherpa | Nepal | Exhaustion | |
| 24 October 2021 | Henrik T. Adersen | Denmark | Unknown (died near Base Camp; likely a trekker as no climbing permits were issued in autumn 2021) | |
| 24 May 2019 | Nima Tenji Sherpa | Nepal | Storm, altitude sickness | |
| 16 May 2019 | Dipankar Ghosh | India | Exhaustion | |
| Narayan Singh | Exhaustion | |||
| 8 May 2019 | Richard Leopoldo Hidalgo Jara | Peru | Died in sleep, likely altitude sickness | |
| 15 May 2018 | Ang Dawa Sherpa | Nepal | Unknown illness | |
| 10 May 2016 | Lakpa Ongyal Sherpa | Nepal | Unknown illness | |
| Da Tenji Sherpa | Unknown illness | |||
| 2 May 2014 | Yannick Claude Sylvain Gagneret | France | HACE | |
| 23 April 2013 | Liu Xiang-yang | China | Fall during descent | |
| 22 May 2011 | Joëlle Catherine Brupbacher | Switzerland | Altitude sickness | |
| 26 May 2010 | Zaharias "Haris" Kiriakakis | Greece | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 1 May 2009 | Sangat Ram Thakur | India | Fall | |
| 20 May 2008 | Nil Prasad Gurung | Nepal | Altitude sickness | |
| 24 April 2008 | Drabey Bahadur Rajan Magar | Nepal | Falling rock/ice | |
| 27 January 2006 | Jean-Christophe Lafaille | France | Fall into crevasse | |
| 15 May 2005 | Sumba Sherpa | Nepal | Altitude sickness | |
| 18 May 2004 | Jay Sieger | United States | Fall | |
| 17 May 2004 | Vladislav Terzyul | Ukraine | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 25 April 2002 | Raymond David Caughron | United States | Exposure, frostbite | |
| Spring 2002 | Pramod Sunar | Nepal | Unspecified | |
| Spring 2002 | Karma Wangchu Sherpa | Nepal | Unspecified | |
| Spring 2002 | Prakash Kundip Karki | Nepal | Unspecified | |
| Spring 2002 | Ongchhu Sherpa | Nepal | Unspecified | |
| Spring 2002 | Sarki Sherpa | Nepal | Unspecified | |
| Spring 2002 | Nima Dorje Tamang | Nepal | Unspecified | |
| 14 May 2001 | Erich Resch | Austria | Fall | |
| 16 May 2000 | Bernd Mehnert | Germany | Altitude sickness | |
| 11 October 1999 | Sange Pemba Sherpa | Nepal | Fall | |
| 30 April 1999 | Michael Knakkergaard-Jørgensen | Denmark | Fall | |
| 12 October 1997 | Per Lyhne | Denmark | Unknown illness | |
| 24 May 1997 | Igor Bougatshevski | Russia | Falling rock/ice | |
| 21 May 1997 | Salavat Khabibulin | Russia | Exhaustion | |
| 14 May 1996 | Anatoli Chlekht | Russia | Fall | |
| 8 May 1995 | David Victor Hume | Australia | Fall | |
| 8 October 1991 | Ishizaka Takumi | Japan | Exposure, frostbite | |
| 2 October 1991 | Manu Badiola | Spain | Fall | |
| 14 October 1988 | Ryszard Kołakowski | Poland | Fall | |
| 25 September 1986 | Marcel Rüedi | Switzerland | Altitude sickness | |
| Autumn 1986 | Kancha Gurung | Nepal | Altitude sickness | |
| 13 September 1984 | Ram Bahadur Shrestha | Nepal | Altitude sickness | |
| 15 October 1983 | Mark Peter Moorhead | Australia | Fall | |
| 3 October 1983 | Matthew William "Bill" Denz | New Zealand | Avalanche | |
| Spring 1983 | Unknown | Nepal | Unknown | |
| 26 September 1982 | Tadeusz Szulc | Poland | Unknown illness | |
| 6 October 1978 | Andrzej Młynarczyk | Poland | Avalanche | |
| 24 May 1976 | Karel Schubert | Czechoslovakia | Exposure, frostbite | |
| 21 May 1973 | Jan Kounický | Czechoslovakia | Fall | |
| 26 September 1954 | Dilli Bahadur Verma | Nepal | Pneumonia |
Cho Oyu
Cho Oyu is the world's sixth-highest mountain at 8,188 meters (26,864 ft) above sea level. Standing on the China Tibet–Nepal Province No. 1 border, the mountain is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalaya 20 kilometers west of Mount Everest. Its standard northwest ridge route features generally moderate slopes, and it is close to Nangpa La, a glaciated pass that serves as the main trading route between the Tibetans and the Khumbu's Sherpas. For these reasons, Cho Oyu is considered the easiest 8,000-meter peak to climb. As of December 2024, there had been 4,027 successful summits and 52 deaths on the mountain.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2019 | Phujung Bhote | Nepal | Fall into crevasse | |
| 16 May 2018 | Park Shin-yong | South Korea | Exhaustion, altitude sickness | |
| 26 September 2011 | Joerg Henry Manuel Henning | Germany | Avalanche | |
| 23 September 2011 | Rostislav Krpec | Czech Republic | Unknown illness | |
| 22 May 2011 | Ronald Naar | Netherlands | Altitude sickness | |
| 3 October 2010 | Walter Nones | Italy | Fall | |
| 3 May 2010 | Serguey Nikitin | Russia | HACE | |
| 26 September 2009 | Clifton Harlan Wells "Cliff" Maloney | United States | Unknown illness | |
| 2 June 2009 | Dennis Verhoeve | Netherlands | Fall | |
| 4 October 2008 | Miha Valič | Slovenia | Altitude sickness | |
| 3 October 2008 | Guy Leveille | Canada | Fall | |
| 9 May 2006 | Raymund M. Spang | Germany | Fall | |
| 11 May 2005 | Lubos Stacho | Slovakia | Unknown illness | |
| 13 October 2004 | Xabier Ormazabal | Spain | Exhaustion, fall | |
| 6 October 2003 | Christos Barouchas | Greece | Exhaustion | |
| 16 May 2003 | Guenter Welkisch | Germany | Altitude sickness | |
| 14 May 2003 | Paul Bernard Carr | Australia | Heart attack | |
| 14 May 2002 | Adam Joseph Cinnamond | United Kingdom | Fall into crevasse | |
| 30 April 2002 | Chhong Ringee Sherpa | Nepal | Unknown | |
| 9 September 2001 | Kim Su-ya | South Korea | Altitude sickness | |
| 11 October 2000 | Pavle Milošević | Serbia | HAPE, heart problems | |
| 20 September 2000 | Pemba Gyalzen Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| Pasang Nuru Sherpa | ||||
| Pasang Nima Sherpa | ||||
| 4 May 2000 | Pavel Bonadyssenko | Russia | Fall | |
| Noora Toivonen | Finland | Fall | ||
| Winter 1999 | Joan Carrillo Junca | Spain | Fall | |
| 26 September 1998 | Alexander "Alex" Jaggi | Switzerland | Unknown illness | |
| 13 May 1998 | Gerald Roesner | Germany | Fall | |
| 30 April 1998 | Viktor Stepanov | Russia | Unknown illness | |
| 10 October 1996 | Lubos Becak | Czech Republic | Altitude sickness | |
| 6 October 1996 | Oya Hiroshi | Japan | Altitude sickness | |
| 20 April 1996 | Friedrich "Fritz" Zintl | Germany | Unknown illness | |
| 8 October 1994 | Lhakpa Gyalu Sherpa | Nepal | Unknown illness | |
| 24 January 1994 | Juan Carlos Piedra | Switzerland | Fall | |
| Jean-Luc Beausire | Fall | |||
| 20 May 1992 | Philippe Gerard Arnold Monnerat | Switzerland | Fall | |
| 21 October 1991 | Yuri Grebeniuk | Soviet Union | Falling rock/ice | |
| 11 May 1991 | Horst Wasmann | Germany | Fall | |
| Summer 1990 | Chandra Gurung | Nepal | Unknown illness | |
| 25 December 1989 | Ang Lhakpa Nuru Sherpa | Nepal | Fall | |
| 29 September 1988 | Daniel Bovero | France | Altitude sickness | |
| 12 May 1988 | Stefan Wörner | Switzerland | Altitude sickness | |
| 23 October 1986 | Pierre-Alain Steiner | Switzerland | Fall | |
| 19 May 1982 | Reinhard Karl | West Germany | Avalanche | |
| 7 May 1964 | Alois Thurmayr | West Germany | Altitude sickness | |
| 4 May 1964 | Georg Huber | West Germany | Altitude sickness | |
| 2 October 1959 | Chhowang Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| Ang Norbu Sherpa | ||||
| Claudine van der Straten-Ponthoz | Belgium | |||
| Claude Kogan | France | |||
| 28 April 1958 | Narendra Dhar "Nandu" Jayal | India | Altitude sickness |
Dhaulagiri I
Dhaulagiri I is the world's seventh highest mountain. There had been 691 successful ascents since the first one, by a team led by Kurt Diemberger in 1960. 87 people are known to have lost their lives on the slopes of Dhaulagiri I.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6–8 October 2024 | Alexandr Dusheyko | Russia | Fall | |
| Oleg Kruglov | ||||
| Vladimir Chistikov | ||||
| Mihail Nosenko | ||||
| Dmitriy Shpilevoy | ||||
| 14 October 2023 | Nadezhda Oleneva | Russia | Fall | |
| 6 October 2022 | Ram Bahadur Tamang | Nepal | Unknown | |
| 12 April 2022 | Antonios Sykaris | Greece | Illness | |
| 27 September 2018 | Dawa Gyaljen Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 30 April 2018 | Simone La Terra | Italy | Storm | |
| 20 May 2017 | Ang Ngima Sherpa | Nepal | Fall/Exposure | |
| 19 May 2016 | Rajib Bhattacharya | India | Altitude sickness | |
| 16 May 2016 | Christiaan Johan Wilson | Netherlands | Disappeared | |
| 15 October 2014 | Ján Matlák | Slovakia | Avalanche | |
| Vladimír Švancár | ||||
| Bhoj Kumar Rai | Nepal | |||
| Gopal Rai | ||||
| Dorje Sherpa | ||||
| 26 May 2013 | Juanjo Garra | Spain | Fall and exposure | |
| 23 May 2013 | Chizuko Kono | Japan | Exhaustion | |
| 23 May 2013 | Dawa Sherpa | Nepal | Disappeared | |
| 28 September 2010 | Daisuke Honda | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 28 September 2010 | Osamu Tanabe | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 28 September 2010 | Pasang Gyelu | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 28 September 2010 | Toshio Yamamoto | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 13 May 2010 | Zhao Liang | China | Fall | |
| 13 May 2010 | Li Bin | China | Cold/ Exhaustion | |
| 13 May 2010 | Han Xin | China | Fall | |
| 1 May 2009 | Mehdi Etemad Far | Iran | Fall | |
| 8 April 2009 | Piotr Morawski | Poland | Fall into crevasse | |
| 5 May 2008 | Rafael Guillén | Spain | Fall | |
| 5 May 2008 | Darío Bracali | Argentina | Disappeared | |
| 12 May 2007 | Santiago Sagaste | Spain | Avalanche | |
| 12 May 2007 | Ricardo Valencia | Spain | Avalanche | |
| 30 April 2007 | Sergio Dalla Longa | Italy | Fall | |
| May 2004 | Jože Šepič | Slovenia | Fall | |
| 14 October 2001 | Yukihiko Shinagawa | Japan | Disappeared | |
| 14 October 2001 | Ryushi Hoshino | Japan | Disappeared | |
| 14 October 2001 | Masashi Fukumoto | Japan | Disappeared | |
| 11 October 2001 | Jose Antonio Garces | Spain | Fall | |
| 7 October 2000 | Gyalzen Chuldim | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 29 September 2000 | Soo-ho Lee | South Korea | Avalanche | |
| 24 October 1999 | Ginette Harrison | United Kingdom | Avalanche | |
| 24 October 1999 | Dawa Dorje | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 2 October 1998 | Charalampos (Babis) Tsoupras | Greece | Fall | |
| 11 May 1998 | Chantal Mauduit | France | Avalanche | |
| 11 May 1998 | Ang Tshering | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 1 May 1998 | Nikos Papandreou | Greece | Fall | |
| 6 October 1995 | Isayoshi Tawaraya | Japan | Disappeared | |
| 15 May 1995 | Albrecht Hammann | Germany | Exposure | |
| 18 October 1994 | Galina Chekanova | Ukraine | Fall | |
| 26 September 1994 | Robert Bähler | Switzerland | Fall | |
| 6 October 1993 | Gary Ball | New Zealand | Altitude Sickness | |
| 11 May 1992 | Sanda Dumitrescu-Isaila | Romania | Disappeared | |
| 11 May 1992 | Taina Coliban | Romania | Disappeared | |
| 2 May 1992 | Hubert Weinzierl | Germany | Heart Failure | |
| 31 October 1990 | Dainius Makauskas | Lithuania | Disappeared | |
| 29 April 1990 | Wangel | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 25 December 1989 | Scot McGrath | United States | Avalanche | |
| 25 December 1989 | Gregory Barber | United States | Avalanche | |
| 25 December 1989 | Wangchuk Nuru | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 10 October 1989 | Francesc (Quico) Dalmases | Spain | Disappeared | |
| 25 September 1989 | Sarki Kami | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 25 September 1989 | Ajiba | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 21 September 1986 | Franz Mülleder | Austria | Edema | |
| 23 October 1984 | Jan Simon | Czechoslovakia | Fall | |
| 23 May 1981 | Mario Serrano | Argentina | Fall | |
| 7 October 1980 | Lynette R. Griffith | Australia | Avalanche | |
| 14 May 1979 | Sherpa Pemba | Nepal | Disappeared | |
| 13 May 1979 | Jean-Louis Sabarly | France | Avalanche | |
| 13 May 1979 | Eric Poumailloux | France | Avalanche | |
| 20 October 1978 | Katsuyoshi Kogure | Japan | Fall/Exposure | |
| 23 September 1978 | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 23 September 1978 | Yujiro Fukasawa | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 23 September 1978 | Hiroshi Akuzawa | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 21 April 1978 | Katsumi Naganuma | Japan | Exhaustion | |
| 26 March 1975 | Yoshitada Numao | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 26 March 1975 | Tetsu Imura | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 26 March 1975 | Pasang Kami | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 26 March 1975 | Dorje | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 26 March 1975 | Dakiya | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1969 | David Seidman | United States | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1969 | Ross William | United States | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1969 | Vincent Hoeman | United States | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1969 | Paul Gerhard | United States | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1969 | Boyd Everett | United States | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1969 | Pemba Phutar | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1969 | Tenzing | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 29 April 1959 | Heinrich Roiss | Austria | Fall | |
| 26 May 1956 | Bal Bahadur | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 30 June 1954 | Francisco (Paco) Ibáñez | Argentina | Pneumonia/Infection |
Manaslu
Manaslu is the world's eighth highest mountain. While the peak was known to the local population, foreign visitors became aware of its existence in 1950. During the next five years Japanese expeditions were exploring the area and in 1956 Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu successfully climbed the mountain. Due to tensions between climbers and inhabitants, for the next two decades visits to Manaslu were sporadic, lasting until the 1970s. As of December 2024 there is a total of 3,317 successful summits, with 90 people dying on mountain.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2022 | Dawa Chhiring Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 26 September 2022 | Hilaree Nelson | United States | Fall | |
| 26 September 2022 | Anup Rai | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 29 September 2021 | Brent Seal | Canada | Stroke | |
| 28 September 2019 | Rita Donata Bladyko | Poland | Altitude sickness | |
| 29 September 2018 | Roman Hlávko | Czech Republic | Probably fall | |
| 8 September 2018 | Hiromi Komatsu | Japan | Rescue helicopter crash | |
| 25 September 2017 | Philip Harvey | United Kingdom | Altitude Sickness | |
| 26 October 2016 | Hirotaka Onodera | Japan | Fall | |
| 1 October 2015 | Zoltan Benedek | Austria | Probably altitude sickness | |
| 26 September 2014 | Yoshimasa Sasaki | Japan | Fall | |
| 4 October 2012 | Victor Correa | Colombia | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 23 September 2012 | Dominique Ouimet | Canada | Avalanche | |
| Gregory Ugo Costa | France | |||
| Alberto Magliano | Italy | |||
| Catherine Marie Andree Ricard | France | |||
| Christian Mittermeyer | Germany | |||
| Dawa Dorji Sherpa | Nepal | |||
| Fabrice Priez | France | |||
| Ludovic Challeat | France | |||
| Marti Roig Gasull | Spain | |||
| Phillippe Lucien Bos | France | |||
| Rémy Lécluse | France | |||
| 11 May 2012 | Jafar Naseri | Iran | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 12 May 2011 | Tashi Chhiring | Nepal | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 12 May 2011 | Bernard Jean Francois Milian | France | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 12 May 2011 | Alain Pierre Marie Laurens | France | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 29 April 2011 | Eisa Mir-Shekari | Iran | Altitude sickness | |
| 24 September 2010 | Nobuaki Kuwabara | Japan | Illness | |
| 24 April 2010 | Chi-won Yun | South Korea | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 24 April 2010 | Haeng-su Park | South Korea | Exhaustion | |
| 3 October 2009 | Franc Oderlap | Slovenia | Hit by falling seracs, died in hospital | |
| 19 May 2009 | Levente Szabó | Hungary | Fall | |
| 28 April 2009 | Giuseppe Antonelli | Italy | Illness | |
| 5 October 2008 | Daniel Goulevitch | France | Altitude sickness | |
| 13 May 2008 | Hasta Bahadur Gurung | Nepal | Illness | |
| 28 May 2006 | Susan Erica Fear | Australia | Fall in crevasse | |
| 13 October 2001 | Isao Kuribara | Nepal | Altitude sickness, Exhaustion | |
| 30 October 1998 | Hristo Stantchev | Bulgaria | Fall | |
| 26 October 1998 | Lenin Granados | Colombia | Avalanche | |
| 9 October 1997 | Miroslav Rybansky | Slovakia | Collapsed | |
| 8 October 1997 | Juraj Kardhordo | Slovakia | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 1 October 1996 | Masatsugu Konishi | Japan | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 7 May 1995 | Michael Zunk | Germany | Fall | |
| 6 May 1995 | Jörg Starke | Germany | Fall | |
| 22 October 1993 | Sergei Jadrychnikov | Russia | Avalanche | |
| 21 October 1993 | Igor Khmiliar | Russia | Fall | |
| 3 October 1992 | Sven Vermeiren | Belgium | Fall | |
| 2 October 1992 | Sylwia Dmowska | Poland | Fall | |
| 10 May 1991 | Karl Großrubatscher | Italy | Fall | |
| 10 May 1991 | Friedl Mutschlechner | Italy | Lightning | |
| 7 September 1990 | Murat Galiev | Soviet Union | Fall | |
| 7 September 1990 | Zinur Halitov | Soviet Union | Fall | |
| 7 September 1990 | Grigory Lunjakov | Soviet Union | Fall | |
| 27 March 1990 | Nima Wangchuk Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 27 March 1990 | Charles "Chuck" Schertz | United States | Avalanche | |
| 27 March 1990 | Nancy Jackson | United States | Avalanche | |
| 7 May 1989 | Santiago Suarez | Spain | Fall | |
| 28 October 1987 | Ichigi Kudo | Japan | Fall | |
| 4 May 1986 | Dieter Oberbichler | Austria | Fall | |
| 3 May 1986 | Wilhelm Klaiber | West Germany | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 25 October 1985 | Nima Norbu Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 4 May 1985 | Thomas Juen | Austria | Avalanche | |
| 11 December 1983 | Stanisław Jaworski | Poland | Fall | |
| 24 April 1983 | Ante Bućan | Yugoslavia | Avalanche | |
| 24 April 1983 | Nejc Zaplotnik | Yugoslavia | Avalanche | |
| 18 December 1982 | Takashi Sakuma | Japan | Cold, Exhaustion | |
| 10 May 1982 | Pere Aymerich | Spain | Avalanche | |
| 10 May 1982 | Enric Font Lloret | Spain | Avalanche | |
| 8 October 1979 | Edgardo Jose Porsellana | Argentina | Avalanche | |
| 5 May 1974 | Teiko Suzuki | Japan | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 26 April 1972 | Andi Schlick | Austria | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 25 April 1972 | Franz Jäger | Austria | Unknown (disappeared) | |
| 10 April 1972 | Wangel | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| Rinsing Ongyal | ||||
| Phurba Tenzing | ||||
| Pemba Rinji (Nawang Chultim) | ||||
| Pasang Nima | ||||
| Gyalze | ||||
| Ang Tendi (Ang Dawa) | ||||
| Ang Rita | ||||
| Ang Mingma (b) | ||||
| Ang Mingma (a) | ||||
| Kazunari Yasuhisha | Japan | |||
| Chang-hee Park | South Korea | |||
| Sae-keon Oh | ||||
| Joon-haeng Song | ||||
| Ho-sup Kim | ||||
| 4 May 1971 | Ki-sup Kim | South Korea | Fall |
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain. It's known for being extremely hard to climb; named the "Killer Mountain" by the 1953 German expedition, first to successfully reach the peak. In addition to the large number of climbing deaths, 11 mountaineers were killed in 2013 by Taliban.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2025 | Klára Kolouchová | Czech Republic | Fall | |
| 3 July 2023 | Paweł Kopeć | Poland | Altitude sickness | |
| 24 February - 7 March 2019 | Daniele Nardi | Italy | Unknown | |
| Tom Ballard | United Kingdom | |||
| 27/28 January 2018 | Tomasz Mackiewicz | Poland | Altitude sickness | |
| 24 June 2017 | Alberto Zerain | Spain | Avalanche | |
| 24 June 2017 | Mariano Galván | Argentina | Avalanche | |
| 22 June 2013 | Igor Svergun | Ukraine | Killed by Taliban at Diamir Base Camp | |
| Badawi Kashaev | ||||
| Dmitry Konyaev | ||||
| Rao Jianfeng | China | |||
| Yang Chunfeng | ||||
| Honglu Chen | China | |||
| Sona Sherpa | Nepal | |||
| Ernestas Markšaitis | Lithuania | |||
| Ali Hussain | Pakistan | |||
| Anton Dobes | Slovakia | |||
| Peter Šperka | ||||
| 6 February 2013 | Joel Wischnewski | France | Avalanche | |
| 11 July 2009 | Mi-young Go | South Korea | Fall | |
| 10 July 2009 | Wolfgang Kölblinger | Austria | Fall | |
| 17 July 2008 | Saman Nemati | Iran | Unknown | |
| 15 July 2008 | Karl Unterkircher | Italy | Fell into crevasse | |
| 28 July 2006 | Naohiro Ozawa | Japan | Unknown | |
| 22 July 2006 | José Antonio Delgado | Venezuela | Exposure | |
| 1 July 2004 | Günter Jung | Germany | Fall | |
| 26 July 1998 | Hideki Ohmiya | Japan | Fall | |
| 30 July 1997 | Joan Colet | Spain | Fell during descent | |
| 20 June 1996 | Răzvan Petcu | Romania | Avalanche | |
| Gabriel Stana | ||||
| 24 June 1994 | Antonio Lopez | Spain | Fall | |
| 7 July 1993 | Chun-moon Ahn | South Korea | Unknown | |
| 18 August 1990 | Osami Nakajima | Japan | Fall | |
| 3 July 1990 | Chang-gi Park | South Korea | Fall into a crevasse | |
| 18 July 1989 | Tetsuya Baba | Japan | Lightning strike | |
| 23 June 1989 | Kwang-ho Kim | South Korea | Fall | |
| 10 July 1985 | Piotr Kalmus | Poland | Avalanche | |
| 8 December 1984 | Hiromi Kameda | Japan | Fall | |
| 7 July 1984 | Fuji Tsunoda | Japan | Avalanche | |
| Shigeoh Hida | ||||
| Nobuyuki Imakyurei | ||||
| Takashi Kogure | ||||
| 12 July 1983 | Nobuyoshi Yamada | Japan | Avalanche | |
| Yuichiro Takamori | ||||
| Satoshi Iida | ||||
| 17 June 1983 | Kazuo Shimura | Japan | Fall | |
| 8 June 1982 | Peter Hiltbrand | Switzerland | Altitude sickness | |
| 12 June 1982 | Ali Sheikh | Pakistan | Fall | |
| 4 June 1982 | Peter Forrer | Switzerland | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1982 | Matloob Hassan Nuri | Pakistan | Fall into crevasse | |
| 31 July 1977 | Robert Broughton | United States | Avalanche | |
| George Bogel | ||||
| 26 September 1976 | Sebastian (Wastl) Arnold | Austria | Fall | |
| 8 July 1971 | Näbi Mantas Hunza | Pakistan | Fall | |
| 29 June 1970 | Günther Messner | Italy | Avalanche | |
| 23 June 1962 | Siegfried Löw | West Germany | Fall | |
| 4 December 1950 | John W. Thornley | United Kingdom | Unknown | |
| William H. Crace | ||||
| 14 / 15 June 1937 | Karl Wien | Nazi Germany | Avalanche, 1937 Nanga Parbat tragedy | |
| Martin Pfeffer | ||||
| Peter Müllritter | ||||
| Günther Hepp | ||||
| Hans Hartmann | ||||
| Adolf Göttner | ||||
| Pert Fankhauser | Austria | |||
| Tigmay | British Raj | |||
| Pasang Norbu | ||||
| Nima Tsering I | ||||
| Nima Tsering II | ||||
| Mingma Tsering | ||||
| Karmi | ||||
| Gyalgen Monjo | ||||
| Chong Karma | ||||
| Ang Tshering II | ||||
| 17 July 1934 | Willy Merkl | Nazi Germany | Unknown | |
| 17 July 1934 | Sherpa Gyali | British Raj | Unknown | |
| 12 July 1934 | Wilhelm Welzenbach | Nazi Germany | Exposure | |
| 10 July 1934 | Sherpa Dakshi | British Raj | Unknown | |
| 10 July 1934 | Dorje Nima | British Raj | Exposure | |
| 10 July 1934 | Nima Tashi | British Raj | Exposure | |
| 10 July 1934 | Pinju Norbu | British Raj | Exposure | |
| 9 July 1934 | Nima Nurbu | British Raj | Unknown | |
| 9 July 1934 | Ulrich Wieland | Nazi Germany | Unknown | |
| 8 June 1934 | Alfred Drexel | Nazi Germany | Pneumonia, HACE | |
| 24 August 1895 | Albert F. Mummery | United Kingdom | Avalanche | |
| Ragobir Thapa Ghurka | Nepal | |||
| Goman Singh Ghurka |
Annapurna I
Anatoli Boukreev Memorial (1997) and Ian Clough (1970) memorials at the Annapurna Base Camp, Nepal.
Annapurna I is the world's 10th highest mountain. It is known for being an extremely difficult climb, with 75 deaths on its slopes as of April 2025.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2025 | Rima Rinje Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 8 April 2025 | Ngima Tashi Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 18 April 2023 | Noel Hanna | United Kingdom | Exposure | |
| 3 May 2019 | Wui Kin Chin | Malaysia | Hypothermia/Frostbite | |
| 24 March 2015 | Samuli Mansikka | Finland | Fall | |
| 24 March 2015 | Pemba Sherpa | Nepal | Fall | |
| 7 October 2012 | Ivan Lobanov | Uzbekistan | Avalanche | |
| 7 October 2012 | Iljas Tukhvatullin | Uzbekistan | Avalanche | |
| 5 May 2012 | Tibor Horváth | Hungary | Avalanche | |
| 18 October 2011 | Young-seok Park | South Korea | Unknown | |
| 18 October 2011 | Dong-min Shin | South Korea | Unknown | |
| 18 October 2011 | Ki-seok Kang | South Korea | Unknown | |
| 29 April 2010 | Tolo Calafat | Spain | Exhaustion, HACE | |
| April 2009 | Martin Minařík | Czech Republic | Fell into Crevasse | |
| 23 May 2008 | Iñaki Ochoa de Olza | Spain | HACE | |
| 22 April 2007 | Udhav Prasad Khanal | Nepal | Unknown | |
| 22 October 2006 | Lhakpa Rita II | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 18 May 2005 | Christian Kuntner | Italy | Avalanche | |
| 10 October 2004 | Hideji Nazuka | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 10 October 2004 | Michio Sato | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 29 April 1999 | Hyun-ok Ji | South Korea | Unknown | |
| 29 April 1999 | Dorje Kami | Nepal | Unknown | |
| 26 April 1998 | Ang Tshering | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 25 December 1997 | Anatoli Boukreev | Kazakhstan | Avalanche | |
| 25 December 1997 | Dmitri Sobolev | Kazakhstan | Avalanche | |
| 23 March 1997 | Ngati | Nepal | Fall | |
| 11 October 1992 | Pierre Béghin | France | Fall | |
| 20 October 1991 | Gabriel Denamur | Belgium | Unknown | |
| 19 September 1991 | Seog-jee Lee | South Korea | Avalanche | |
| 19 September 1991 | Song-gu Lee | South Korea | Avalanche | |
| 19 September 1991 | Sange Dawa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 19 September 1991 | Tendi Lhakpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 19 September 1991 | Jangbu Nurbu | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 19 September 1991 | Tenzing | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 28 October 1989 | Milan Metkov | Bulgaria | Unknown | |
| 28 October 1989 | Ognian Stoykov | Bulgaria | Unknown | |
| 18 October 1988 | Ramiro Navarrete | Ecuador | Fall | |
| 1 October 1988 | Jiri Pelikan | Czechoslovakia | Fall on descent | |
| 29 September 1988 | Akihiro Mori | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 29 September 1988 | Ang Dawa | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 20 December 1987 | Toshiyuki Kobayashi | Japan | Fall | |
| 20 December 1987 | Yasuhira Saito | Japan | Fall | |
| 24 May 1987 | Andres Ferrer | Spain | Fall | |
| 23 September 1986 | Benoit Grison | France | Fall | |
| 7 December 1984 | Pasang Norbu | Nepal | Unknown | |
| 7 December 1984 | Keepa | Nepal | Unknown | |
| 21 April 1984 | Philippe Dumas | France | Avalanche | |
| 21 April 1984 | Patrick Taglianut | France | Avalanche | |
| 24 September 1983 | Yang-kun Chung | South Korea | Avalanche | |
| 24 September 1983 | Magar Maila | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 24 September 1983 | Rama Magar Tika | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 18 October 1982 | Susumu Akimatsu | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 18 October 1982 | Miko Ono | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 17 October 1982 | Alex MacIntyre | United Kingdom | Rock fall | |
| 12 May 1982 | Rai Shanti | Nepal | Fall | |
| 4 May 1982 | Werner Bürkli | Switzerland | Heart attack | |
| 31 October 1981 | Yasuji Kato | Japan | Fall | |
| 28 September 1981 | Andre Durieux | France | Avalanche | |
| 28 September 1981 | Yves Favre | France | Avalanche | |
| 27 September 1981 | Ang Nima | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 27 September 1981 | Pemba Tshering | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 19 September 1979 | Eric Roberts | United Kingdom | Avalanche | |
| 19 September 1979 | Maynard Cohick | United States | Avalanche | |
| 19 September 1979 | Gil Harder | United States | Avalanche | |
| 1 May 1979 | Yves Morin | France | Exhaustion | |
| 17 October 1978 | Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz | United Kingdom | Fall | |
| 17 October 1978 | Vera Watson | United States | Fall | |
| 16 April 1975 | Franz Tegischer | Austria | Avalanche | |
| 26 September 1973 | Leo Cerruti | Italy | Avalanche | |
| 26 September 1973 | Miller Rava | Italy | Avalanche | |
| 18 May 1973 | Tadashi Ushigoe | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 18 May 1973 | Sadatoshi Takahashi | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 18 May 1973 | Masanori Hama | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 18 May 1973 | Kazumi Katagiri | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 18 May 1973 | Rinje | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 30 May 1970 | Ian Clough | United Kingdom | Serac fall |
Gasherbrum I
Gasherbrum I, also known as Hidden Peak or K5, is the world's 11th highest mountain. As of November 2025, Gashbrum I has 34 deaths.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2013 | Zdeněk Hrubý | Czech Republic | Fall | |
| 22 July 2013 | Xevi Gómez | Spain | Disappeared | |
| 22 July 2013 | Álvaro Paredes | Spain | Disappeared | |
| 22 July 2013 | Abel Alonso | Spain | Disappeared | |
| 7 July 2013 | Artur Hajzer | Poland | Fall | |
| 9 March 2012 | Gerfried Göschl | Austria | Disappeared | |
| 9 March 2012 | Cedric Hählen | Switzerland | Disappeared | |
| 9 March 2012 | Nisar Hussain Sadpara | Pakistan | Disappeared | |
| 18 June 2008 | Jean-Noël Urban | France | Fall into crevasse | |
| 29 July 2007 | Jiri Danek | Czech Republic | Fall | |
| 5 August 2005 | Dawa Nurbu II | Nepal | Fall | |
| 25 July 2004 | Jose Antonio Anton | Spain | Fall | |
| 7 September 2003 | Mohammad Oraz | Iran | Avalanche caused injuries, died in hospital | |
| 15 July 2003 | Vladimir Pestrikov | Ukraine | Stone fall | |
| 5 July 2003 | Jose Manuel Buenaga | Spain | Disappeared | |
| 5 July 2003 | Nancy Silvestrini | Argentina | Disappeared | |
| 9 July 2001 | Claudio Gálvez Santibañez | Chile | Fall, after successfully summiting | |
| 1 August 1998 | Yoshiumi Hayoshida | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 1 August 1998 | Kasunori Kutama | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 1 August 1998 | Kasutoshi Naito | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 1 August 1998 | Takashi Watanabe | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 17 July 1996 | Manuel Alvarez | Spain | Fall (between Camp III and Camp II) | |
| 30 May 1993 | Paolo Bernascone | Italy | Slab avalanche (below Camp I) | |
| 19 August 1990 | Josep Granyo | Spain | Disappeared | |
| 19 August 1990 | Albert Ibanez | Spain | Disappeared | |
| 12 July 1989 | Dorje Tsindi | Nepal | Fall | |
| 25 June 1988 | Jorge Luis Brito | Mexico | Pulmonary edema | |
| 29 July 1987 | Mohsin Ali | Pakistan | Avalanche | [citation needed] |
| 29 July 1987 | Fakhar-ul-Islam | Pakistan | Avalanche | [citation needed] |
| 29 July 1987 | Fayyaz Hussain | Pakistan | Avalanche | [citation needed] |
| 29 July 1987 | Khalid Khan | Pakistan | Avalanche | |
| 18 August 1986 | Andreas Bührer | Switzerland | Fall | |
| 31 May 1986 | Muhammad Ali Ghulam | Pakistan | Pneumonia | |
| 9–10 June 1977 | Drago Bregar | Yugoslavia | Disappeared |
Broad Peak
Broad Peak is the world's 12th highest mountain. As of November 2025, Broad Peak has 39 deaths.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2024 | Murad Sadpara | Pakistan | Hit by falling rock | |
| 19 July 2022 | Gordon Henderson | United Kingdom | Fall | |
| 5 July 2022 | Sharif Sadpara | Pakistan | Fall | |
| 5 July 2022 | Imran Karim | Pakistan | Fall | |
| 19 July 2021 | Kim Hong-bin | South Korea | Fall | |
| July 2015 | Qamber Ali Jangjupa | Pakistan | Avalanche | |
| 23 July 2013 | Aidin Bozorgi | Iran | Disappeared | |
| 23 July 2013 | Mojtaba Jarrahi | Iran | Disappeared | |
| 23 July 2013 | Pouya Keivan | Iran | Disappeared | |
| 8 July 2013 | Dana Heide | Germany | Slipped into a glacial stream near base camp | |
| 6 March 2013 | Maciej Berbeka | Poland | Disappeared | |
| 6 March 2013 | Tomasz Kowalski | Poland | Presumably exhaustion | |
| 31 July 2012 | Muhammad Baqir | Pakistan | Fall | |
| 31 July 2012 | Zuzana Hofmannová | Czech Republic | Disappeared | |
| 25 July 2011 | Jeffrey Wai Hung Chung | Hong Kong | Fall in crevasse |
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| 18 July 2009 | Cristina Castagna | Italy | Fall | |
| 30 June 2008 | Vladimir Plulik | Slovakia | Fall | |
| 8 July 2006 | Markus Kronthaler | Austria | Exhaustion | |
| 11 July 1999 | Seung-Kwon Hur | South Korea | Disappeared | |
| 29 July 1998 | Pascale Bessieres | France | Disappeared | |
| 29 July 1998 | Éric Escoffier | France | Disappeared | |
| 16 July 1997 | Jeffrey Ian Bubb | United States | Avalanche | |
| 16 July 1997 | Fukuzo Yokotagawa | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 20 July 1996 | Dong-keun Han | South Korea | Died on descent due to bad weather | |
| 20 July 1996 | Jae-mo Yang | South Korea | Died on descent due to bad weather | |
| 20 July 1996 | Sun-taek Lim | South Korea | Died on descent due to bad weather | |
| 12 July 1995 | Hyun-jae Park | South Korea | Fall | |
| 22 June 1994 | Alexej Himer | Czech Republic | Fall | |
| 11 June 1994 | Bohuslav Bilek | Czech Republic | Pulmonary edema | |
| 24 July 1990 | Kurt Lyncke-Krüger | West Germany | Fall | |
| 20 August 1988 | Yong-il Jang | South Korea | Avalanche | |
| 22 August 1986 | Liam Scott Elliott | United Kingdom | Fell | |
| 18 August 1985 | Barbara Kozłowska | Poland | Drowned in a glacier stream above BC | |
| 16 May 1985 | Hans Frick | Canada | Avalanche | |
| 29 June 1983 | Peter Thexton | United Kingdom | Pulmonary edema | |
| 5 August 1981 | Enric Pujol | Spain | Fall | |
| 29 July 1975 | Andrzej Sikorski | Poland | Fall | |
| 29 July 1975 | Marek Kęsicki | Poland | Fall | |
| 28 July 1975 | Bohdan Nowaczyk | Poland | Fall |
Gasherbrum II
Gasherbrum II, also known as K4, is the world's 13th highest mountain. As of November 2025, It is one of the safest 8000ers with only 25 deaths.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2022 | Iram Karim | Pakistan | Slipped into a glacial stream near base camp | |
| 25 July 2015 | Aleksander Ostrowski | Poland | Avalanche (presumed) | |
| 22 July 2011 | Leila Esfandyari | Iran | Fall on descent | |
| 21 July 2009 | Luis María Barbero | Spain | Disappeared | |
| 18 July 2007 | Ernst-Robert Zauner | Germany | Avalanche | |
| 18 July 2007 | Arne Heckele | Germany | Avalanche | |
| 3 July 2007 | Ulrike Gschwandtner | Austria | Possibly Heart Failure | |
| 20 July 2001 | Jean-François Bassine | Belgium | Fall | |
| 28 July 2000 | Félix Iñurrategi | Spain | Fall | |
| 13 July 1989 | Antton Ibarguren | Spain | Fall | |
| 9 July 1988 | Gary Silver | United States | Illness | |
| 6 July 1988 | Michel Basson | France | Pulmonary Edema | |
| 25 June 1988 | Henri Albet | France | Fall on snowboard | |
| 29 June 1987 | Jean-Pierre Hefti | Switzerland | Fall | |
| 12 July 1986 | Carlos Rábago | Spain | Altitude sickness | |
| 11 July 1985 | Pierre Bouygues | France | Illness | |
| 24 June 1985 | Toru Nakano | Japan | Fall | |
| mid July 1982 | Norbert Wolf | Austria | Cold | |
| mid July 1982 | Gerhard Gruner | West Germany | Disappeared | |
| 2 July 1982 | Glenn Brindeiro | United States | Avalanche | |
| 1 June 1976 | Osamu Matsuura | Japan | Exhaustion | |
| 27 May 1976 | Yoshinori Hiramatsu | Japan | Fall | |
| 27 May 1976 | Taketoshi Miyamoto | Japan | Fall | |
| late June 1975 | Bernard Villaret | France | Cold, exhaustion |
Shishapangma
Shishapangma, also called Gosainthān, is the world's 14th highest mountain. As of November 2025, Shishapangma has 36 deaths.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Cause of death | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 October 2023 | Tenjen Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 7 October 2023 | Gina Marie Rzucidlo | United States | Avalanche | |
| 7 October 2023 | Anna Gutu | United States | Avalanche | |
| 7 October 2023 | Mingmar Sherpa | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 3 May 2018 | Boyan Petrov | Bulgaria | Disappearance | |
| 30 Sept 2016 | Pemba Sherpa (Taplejung 8) | Nepal | Avalanche | |
| 24 April 2016 | Patrik Matiolli | Switzerland | Fall in crevasse | |
| 24 April 2016 | Jon David Johnston | Austria | Fall in crevasse | |
| 24 September 2014 | Sebastian Haag | Germany | Avalanche | |
| 24 September 2014 | Andrea Zambaldi | Italy | Avalanche | |
| 11 May 2013 | Unknown | Germany | HACE | |
| 15 October 2009 | Roberto Piantoni | Italy | Fall | |
| 24 April 2007 | Marek Hudák | Slovakia | Disappearance | |
| 31 October 2006 | Bruno Carvalho | Portugal | Fall | |
| 3 October 2005 | Stanislav Krylov | Russia | Disappearance | |
| 28 September 2005 | Martin Oczko | Czech Republic | Altitude sickness | |
| 5 October 1999 | Alex Lowe | United States | Avalanche | |
| 5 October 1999 | David Bridges | United States | Avalanche | |
| 21 May 1998 | Andreino Pasini | Italy | Illness | |
| 5 October 1996 | Viktor Pastukh | Ukraine | Avalanche | |
| 5 October 1996 | Gennadi Vasilenko | Ukraine | Avalanche | |
| 19 May 1996 or 1997 | Ming-Tse Kuo | Taiwan | Fall | Discrepancy regarding the year of death between different sources |
| 1 May 1996 | Stefan Sluka | Slovakia | Disappeared on descent | |
| 1 October 1994 | Zdenek Slachta | Czech Republic | Avalanche | |
| 18 September 1994 | Tod Gassen | United States | Fall in crevasse | |
| 29 September 1993 | Bueoung-tae Park | South Korea | Fall | |
| 20 September 1991 | Hidekazu Gomi | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 20 September 1991 | Tetsuichi Miyashita | Japan | Avalanche | |
| 22 May 1991 | Werner Braun | Germany | Disappearance (probably avalanche) | |
| 22 May 1991 | Werner Meichsner | Germany | Disappearance (probably avalanche) | |
| 22 May 1991 | Günther Semmler | Germany | Disappearance (probably avalanche) | |
| 22 May 1991 | Karl-Heinz Thiele | Germany | Disappearance (probably avalanche) | |
| 15 October 1990 | Joan Martinez | Spain | Exposure | |
| 4 October 1989 | Luca Leonardi | Switzerland | Avalanche | |
| 28 April 1983 | Fritz Luchsinger | Switzerland | Altitude sickness |
Deaths per mountain
| Mountain | Number of deaths |
|---|---|
| Everest | 346 |
| K2 | 96 |
| Manaslu | 90 |
| Nanga Parbat | 87 |
| Dhaulagiri I | 87 |
| Annapurna I | 75 |
| Kangchenjunga | 53 |
| Cho Oyu | 52 |
| Makalu | 48 |
| Broad Peak | 39 |
| Shishapangma | 36 |
| Gasherbrum I | 34 |
| Gasherbrum II | 25 |
| Lhotse | 22 |
| Total | 1,090 |
See also
- The Himalayan Database
- 1986 K2 disaster
- List of Mount Everest death statistics
- List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
- List of mountaineering disasters by death toll
- Lists of people by cause of death
- Mount Hood climbing accidents
Bibliography
- Liam Neeson, Lhakpa Dorji, and Dorje Sherpa (1998). Everest (Documentary Film). Nepal, Colorado: Arcturus Motion Pictures, MacGillivray Freeman Films, Polartec.
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