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1970 Mount Everest disaster
The Khumbu Icefall in 2005
Date5 April 1970 (1970-04-05)
LocationKhumbu Icefall, Mount Everest
Coordinates27°59′32″N 86°52′38″E / 27.99222°N 86.87722°E / 27.99222; 86.87722
CauseAvalanche
Deaths6

The 1970 Mt. Everest disaster is the term for the avalanche death of six Nepalese Sherpa porters on 5 April 1970, who were killed on the Khumbu Icefall of Mount Everest while assisting the Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970 climbing expedition.[1] Four days later Sherpa Kyak Tsering, a porter on a different Japanese Mt. Everest expedition,[a] was killed by ice falling from a serac.[2] Later, Yūichirō Miura, the focus of the film expedition, became the first person to attempt to successfully ski down Everest.[2]

The icefall, which lies between Base Camp and Camp I, has been the site of numerous fatalities, including those in the 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche.[3] The six 1970 victims were Mima Norbu, Nima Dorje, Tshering Tarkey, Pasang, Kunga Norbu, and Kami Tshering.[4]

  1. ^ Unsworth, Walt (2000). Everest: The Mountaineering History. Seattle, WA: Walk Unsworth. p. 398. ISBN 1-898573-40-9.
  2. ^ a b c "The Japanese Mount Everest Expedition, 1969-1970".
  3. ^ Associated Press (18 April 2014). "Mount Everest avalanche sweeps away Nepalese guides". The Guardian (London).
  4. ^ "Everest Fatalities". adventurestats.com. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.


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