Everest Deaths

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Below is a list of all British climbers who have climbed on Mount Everest but never came home.

 NAME

 AGE

 DATE OF DEATH

 WHERE

 REASON

 George Mallory

 37

 8th June 1924

 North East Ridge

 Fall

 Andrew Irvine

 22

 8th June 1924

 North East Ridge

 Unknown

 Maurice Wilson

 36

 ? June 1934

 East Rongbuk Glacier

 Exhaustion

 Mick Burke

 34

 26th September 1975

 Near Summit

 Disappeared

 Terry Thompson

 39

 10th April 1976

 Western Cwm

 Fall Into Crevasse

 Peter Boardman

 31

 17th May 1982

 North East Ridge

 Exhaustion

 Joe Tasker

 34

 17th May 1982

 North East Ridge

 Disappeared

 Tony Swierzy

 27

 3rd April 1984

 North Face

 Avalanche

 Bruce Herrod

 37

 25th May 1996

 Hillary Step

 Fall

 Malcolm Duff

43 

 23rd April 1997

 Base Camp

 Heart Attack

 Mark Jennings

 49

 25th May 1998

 North East Ridge

 Exhaustion

 Michael Matthews

 22

 13th May 1999

 South East Ridge

 Disappeared

 Peter Legate

 38

 30th April 2002

 South East Ridge

 Fall

 Robert Milne

 48

 5th June 2005

 South East Ridge

Heart Attack 

 David Sharp

 34

 15th May 2006

 North East Ridge

 Exhaustion

     
     
     
     

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