Because of the extreme conditions experienced on MountMountMount EverestEverestEverest, fatalities are commonplace. To date, 179 peoplepeoplepeople have dieddieddied trying to reach the summit, which sets the fatality rate at around nine percent. Most of these fatalities happened before 1990. In the last ten years, advances in climbingclimbingclimbing equipment and more experienced guides have resulted in a steep drop in fatality statistics: from 37% in 1990 to 4.4% in 2004.
In 1924, an English team of two climbers, Mallory and Irvine, claimed to have reached MountMountMount EverestEverestEverest's summit for the first time in history. The first officially recorded summit was accomplished by Sir Edmund Percival Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a sherpa from Darjeeling, India. They reached EverestEverestEverest's summit on 29 May 1953. Many argue that other climbers reached the summit before 1953, but their climbs just weren't recorded.
The 1970s was a decade of records. The first woman to climb MountMountMount EverestEverestEverest was Junko Tabei, who reached the summit in 1975. In 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to climb MountMountMount EverestEverestEverest without supplemental oxygen. In 1980, Messner was also the first solo climber to reach the summit.
In 2003, another Japanese climber, Yuichiro Miura set the record as the oldest person ever to reach the summit. He was 70 at the time. On the other end of the spectrum, the youngest climber to take on MountMountMount EverestEverestEverest was Temba Tsheri, who on 22 May 2001, at the age of 15, reached the summit. One of the most impressive records, however, is the one set on 25 May 2001 by Erik Weihenmayer. He was the first blind climber to conquer MountMountMount EverestEverestEverest.
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