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]
Sungdare 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]
Sungdare drowned in a river below his village, Pangboche, Nepal in 1989. [2]
Elizabeth Hawley stated that he had 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]
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]
Sungdare 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]
Sungdare drowned in a river below his village, Pangboche, Nepal in 1989. [2]
Elizabeth Hawley stated that he had 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]