2024 Deaths On Everest Trek. Nearly 9,000 mountaineers have summited everest from the nepal side since tenzing norgay and edmund hillary first set foot atop the world. The climber had disappeared with his partner earlier in the week.

More than 300 people are known to have died on everest, and an estimated 200 of their bodies remain there because they were too hard to retrieve. May 12, 2021, expedition group :