Sungdare Sherpa (Nepali: सुन्दरे शेर्पा) 1956[1] Thame village, Solukhumbu – 1989 Pangboche[2]) 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.[3]
Climbing career
editSungdare was with Hannelore Schmatz when she died on a 1979 expedition.[4] He remained with her after she died, and as a result, lost most of his fingers and toes to frostbite.[5]
Despite losing his digits, Sungdare summitted Mount Everest four more times after the 1979 expedition.[6]
Death
editSungdare drowned in a river below his village, Pangboche, Nepal in 1989.[2]
Elizabeth Hawley stated that he struggled with alcoholism and that his death was a suicide.[7] He was survived by his widow, Bhingfuti.[2]
As quoted in an article in Backpacker magazine talking about Mount Everest:[8]
The Summit is always different. Sometimes it is one side and sometimes the other. It changes every time.
— Sungdare Sherpa, 1986[8]
Ascents of Everest
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Sherpas of Everest Series: Sungdare Sherpa".
- ^ a b c "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.
- ^ a b c d e f The Backpacker - May 1986 (Google Books link)
- ^ a b c Everest 80s to 85
- ^ a b "The Sherpas of Everest Series: Sungdare Sherpa".
Further reading
edit- The Backpacker - May 1986 (Google Books link)
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