Notable Deaths on Mount Everest

Over 300 people have died on Everest since the 1920s. Notable fatalities include:

• George Mallory & Andrew Irvine (1924)
• Tenzing Norgay (1986 – died later, not on Everest)
• Rob Hall & Scott Fischer (1996 disaster)
• Anatoli Boukreev (1997)
• David Sharp (2006)
• Junko Tabei (2016 – died later, not on Everest)
• George Band (2020 – died later, not on Everest)

Causes include altitude sickness, exhaustion, falls, avalanches, and ice collapse. Many bodies remain on the mountain due to extreme recovery difficulty.