Sungdare Sherpa

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Sungdare Sherpa (Nepali: सुन्दरे शेर्पा) born Thame village, Solukhumbu, Nepal was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest, who summited Everest on five different climbs. He was the first person to summit Mount Everest three times.[1]

Summit with Hannelore Schmatz[]

Sungdare was with Hannelore Schmatz when she died on a 1979 expedition.[2] He remained with her after she died, and as a result, lost most of his fingers and toes to frostbite.[3]

Despite losing his digits, Sungdare summitted Mount Everest four more times after the 1979 expedition.[4]

Death[]

Sungdare drowned in a river below his village, Pangboche, Nepal in 1989.[5]

Elizabeth Hawley stated that he was suffering from alcoholism, and that his death was a suicide.[6] He was survived by his widow, Bhingfuti.[5]

As quoted in an article in Backpacker magazine talking about Mount Everest:[7]

The Summit is always different. Sometimes it is one side and sometimes the other. It changes every time.

— Sungdare Sherpa, 1986[7]

Everest summitings[]

  1. 1979[7]
  2. 1981[7] October summiting[8]
  3. 1982[7] October summiting[8]
  4. 1985[7][8][9]
  5. 1988[9]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "A commemorative postage stamp on Sundare Sherpa, a Nepalese Sherpa-guide for Mount Everest".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Waterman, Jonathan (1998). In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley - Google Books. ISBN 9781558217263. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  3. ^ "The Alpine Club" (PDF). Alpine-club.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  4. ^ Adams, Vincanne (1996). Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan ... - Vincanne Adams - Google Books. ISBN 0691001111. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  5. ^ a b [1]
  6. ^ McDonald, Bernadette (October 2012). Keeper of the Mountains: The Elizabeth Hawley Story - Bernadette McDonald - Google Books. ISBN 9781927330159. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  7. ^ a b c d e f The Backpacker - May 1986 (Google Books link)
  8. ^ a b c Everest 80s to 85
  9. ^ a b [2]

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