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  2. In 2019, 11 people died on Everest during a record season with a huge number of climbers. Videos shared on social media showed climbers waiting in long queues to advance up the mountain. [18] Due to the difficulties and dangers in bringing bodies down, most who die on the mountain remain where they fall.

  3. May 26, 2019 · [In 2016, three Indian climbers died on Everest. In 2017, a team sought to recover the two bodies that had been abandoned.]

  4. Memorial of Dimitar Ilievski, who died descending from the mountain. Examples of those who, after summiting, died on the descent down or soon after (not counting other climbs, on the same expedition but does not have to be their first summit) examples only. Dimitar Ilievski-Murato; Francys Arsentiev; Hannelore Schmatz; Hristo Prodanov; Jozef Psotka

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    Branch, a sports reporter for The Times and a veteran of narrative journalism, said death is not a rare topic in his stories on the outdoors. For instance, “Snow Fall” — a 2012 longform piece about a fatal avalanche in Washington State — earned him a Pulitzer Prize. He realized over time that there was a bigger story in these deaths, especially wit...

    While reporting this story, which ran more than 12,000 words, Branch says he conducted more than 100 interviews. He has notes spread across more than a dozen Google Docs and handwritten pages. One of the big topics Branch investigated had nothing to do with the mountain or the logistics of bringing the bodies down. Rather, he did much of his initia...

    Branch was not on the mountain when the climbers died, nor when the guides, or Sherpas, freed the bodies from their icy tombs and dragged them down. Yet he writes about these events in such detail that any reader would guess he was standing there with a notebook in his hand, taking down everything that had happened. To figure out what happened the ...

    To capture what was happening on the mountain while the bodies were being brought down, the reporting team decided to bring on another member: one of the Sherpas who had been hired for the retrieval mission, Dawa Finjhok Sherpa. “We had to hand over our expertise as reporter and photographer to this Sherpa,” Branch says. So the primary photographer...

    Making sure he got these rich details right is something Branch is very careful about. So is telling the story in a fair way. “I was writing about an event I wasn’t there to see, and something people were emotional about, and I think people there wanted me to figure out whose fault it was,” he said. “The story was probably a more powerful story bec...

  5. A total of 304 people have died attempting to reach the summit of Mt. Everest as of 2020, including 12 in 2019 and five in 2018. The most recent years in which there were no deaths were 1977, when only two climbers reached the summit, and 2020, when climbing was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

  6. May 24, 2019 · Two Indian climbers - Kalpana Das, 52, and Nihal Bagwan, 27 - died while scaling back down the mountain on Thursday. Why Everest's summit gets so crowded. How deadly is Mount Everest? Sherpa...

  7. May 29, 2019 · May 23 saw three more deaths during descents: Indian climbers Nihal Bagwan and Kalpana Dash and Ernst Landgraf of Austria. (MORE: 3 more die on Mount Everest amid heavy crowding)

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