First Ascents of Routes on Mount Everest, 1963-1987

First Ascents of Routes on Mount Everest, 1963-1987 C o m p il e d

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Year D ate(s) R oute South C ol, South 1953 5/29 Ridge N ortheast Ridge 1960 5/25

N ationality B ritish, New Z ealand, Indian C hinese

1963 5/22

A m erican

1975 9/24

W est R idge, H ornbein C ouloir Southw est Face, ram p to above South Sum m it

British

9/26

1979 5/13 5/15

Y ugoslavian

W est R idge D irect -ditto-

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1980 2/19

South Buttress

Polish

1980 5/10

Japanese C ouloir, H ornbein C ouloir U pper N orth Face, G reat C ouloir Southw est Buttress

Japanese

1980 8/20 1982 5/4

1983

Italian Tirol U .S .S .R .

5/4

-ditto-

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5/5

-ditto-

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5/8

-ditto-

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5/9

-ditto-

10/8

K angshung Face

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A m erican

C lim bers E dm und Hillary T enzing N orgay W ang Fu-chou C hu Y in-hua G onpa (Tibetan) Tom H ornbein W illi U nsoeld D ougal H aston D oug Scott Peter B oardm an Pertem ba M ick Burke (?— disappeared) A ndrej Strem felj N ejc Z aplotnik Stane Belax Stipe B ož ić Ang Phu (Sherpa) A ndrzej Czok Jerzy K ukuczka T suneo Shigehiro Takashi O zaki R einhold M essner Eduard M yslovsky V ladim ir Balyberdin Sergei Bershov M ikhail T urkevich V alentin Ivanov Sergei Ephim ov K azbek Valiev V. K hrishchaty Yuri G olodov V ladim ir Puchkov V alery K hom utov C arlos B uhler K im M om b L ouis Reichardt

Year D ate(s) R oute K angshung Face 1983 10/9

N ationality A m erican

1984

10/3

G reat C ouloir D irect from R ongbuk G lacier

A ustralian

1984

10/20

Central North Face, G reat Couloir

A m erican

C lim bers Jay C assell G eorge Lowe D aniel Reid T im M cC artney-Snape G reg M ortim er A ndy H enderson (to 150 ft below top) Phil Ershler