Sungdare Sherpa (Nepali: सुन्दरे शेर्पा) 1956 Thame village, Solukhumbu – 1989 Pangboche) was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest, who summitted Mount Everest five times. He was the first person to summit Mount Everest three times.
Climbing career
Sungdare was with Hannelore Schmatz when she died on a 1979 expedition. He remained with her after she died, and as a result, lost most of his fingers and toes to frostbite.
Despite losing his digits, Sungdare summitted Mount Everest four more times after the 1979 expedition.
Death
Sungdare drowned in a river below his village, Pangboche, Nepal in 1989.
Elizabeth Hawley stated that he struggled with alcoholism and that his death was a suicide. He was survived by his widow, Bhingfuti.
As quoted in an article in Backpacker magazine talking about Mount Everest:
The Summit is always different. Sometimes it is one side and sometimes the other. It changes every time.
— Sungdare Sherpa, 1986
Ascents of Everest
- 1979
- 1981 October summiting
- 1982 October summiting
- 1985
- 1988
See also
- List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
- List of Mount Everest guides
- List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
References
- "The Sherpas of Everest Series: Sungdare Sherpa".
- ^ "Welcome to nginx eaa1a9e1db47ffcca16305566a6efba4!185.15.56.1". news.google.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- "A commemorative postage stamp on Sundare Sherpa, a Nepalese Sherpa-guide for Mount Everest". 13 December 2019.
- Waterman, Jonathan (1998). In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley - Google Books. Globe Pequot Press. ISBN 9781558217263. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
- "The Alpine Club" (PDF). Alpine-club.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
- Adams, Vincanne (1996). Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan ... - Vincanne Adams - Google Books. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691001111. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
- McDonald, Bernadette (October 2012). Keeper of the Mountains: The Elizabeth Hawley Story - Bernadette McDonald - Google Books. Rocky Mountain Books. ISBN 9781927330159. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
- ^ The Backpacker - May 1986 (Google Books link)
- ^ Everest 80s to 85
- ^ "The Sherpas of Everest Series: Sungdare Sherpa".
Further reading
- The Backpacker - May 1986 (Google Books link)
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