The spring season on Everest (8,849m) has already seen 275 successful ascents and seven deaths in the attempt. In 2024 there were about 670 summits on Everest (the record is still the 877 in 2019) and eight people died
On Sunday, May 18, a total of 150 summits were counted on the roof of the planet, the day with the most activity at the summit. Among the climbers who reached the summit was52-year-oldBritish climber Kenton Cool, who extended his record as the non-Nepalese climber who has climbed Everest the most times: he reached 19 since he achieved the first in 2004.Cool also has the honor of being the first Briton to complete the triple crown, Everest (8,849 m), Lhotse (8,516 m) and Nuptse (7,861 m), in one go without returning to base camp. He achieved this in 2013. A year earlier he fulfilled the Olympic promise to take a medal from the Games to the summit of Everest. In 1924, Edward Strutt promised Baron Pierre de Coubertin to take one of the medals received by the 1922 British Everest Expedition, awarded for being one of the “outstanding feats of human endeavour”.
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Cool took an Olympic medal to Everest
Strutt was the lieutenant colonel of that expedition that stayed near the top. At 500 meters an avalanche killed seven of the Indian porters who accompanied the expedition. Two years later, Baron Pierre de Coubertin posthumously awarded the 13 members of the expedition an Olympic silver medal in mountaineering at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
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Kenton Cool was in charge of fulfilling that promise 88 years later. In 2012 he climbed Everest with the medal. It was his tenth summit on the roof of the planet. In 2021 he achieved another feat by climbing Lhotse 29 hours after Everest.
Seven dead on Everest this spring
This spring, a total of 468 climbers (86 women and 382 men from 47 expedition teams) received permits to climb Everest. By the end of this spring season, the total number of ascents is expected to be around 400.
The sad note, so far, is set by the seven deaths recorded on Everest, which rise to 14 with those on other Himalayan peaks, according to Himalayan expert Alan Arnette in his blog. On April 1, Lanima Sherpa died of altitude sickness. In early May, Ngnima Dorji Sherpa died of a brain hemorrhage and Pen Chhiri Sherpa of a heart attack.
On May 15, two unidentified Nepalese expedition operators died after contracting altitude sickness at Base Camp. On the same day, Philipp Santiago II died at Camp 4 while preparing to leave for the summit. On May 16, Indian Subrata Ghosh was reported dead near Hillary’s step after reaching the summit. On the descent he was affected by altitude sickness.
In other eight-thousanders in the area, seven other fatalities have been reported. Indian climber Rakesh Bishnoi died at Camp IV on Lhotse (8,516 m) after reaching the summit. On this same peak, Romanian cameraman Zsolt Vago also died at an altitude of about 8,000 meters. U.S. climber Alexander Pancoe died two weeks ago at Camp II on Makalu.
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