1970 Mount Everest disaster

Avalanche on Mount Everest KhumbuIcefall.jpg The Khumbu Icefall in 2005 yes 1970 04 05 Khumbu Icefall, Mount Everest 27 59 32 N 86 52 38 E region:NP_type:event inline,title Avalanche 6 On 5 April 1970, an avalanche killed six Nepalese Sherpa porters on the Khumbu Icefall of Mount Everest. The porters were assisting the Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970 climbing expedition.Unsworth Walt Everest: The Mountaineering History 2000 Walk Unsworth Seattle, WA 1-898573-40-9 398 Four days later Sherpa Kyak Tsering, a porter on a different Japanese Mt. Everest expedition,The "Japanese Mount Everest Expedition", focused solely on ascending the summit of Everest, the other being "The Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970", as depicted in the film The Man Who Skied Down Everest.https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/31/8/the-japanese-mount-everest-expedition-1969-1970/ The Japanese Mount Everest Expedition, 1969-1970 was killed by ice falling from a serac. Later, Yūichirō Miura, the focus of the film expedition, became the first person to ski down Everest. 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. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/mount-everest-avalanche-climbers Mount Everest avalanche sweeps away Nepalese guides Associated Press 18 April 2014 The Guardian (London) The six 1970 victims were Mima Norbu, Nima Dorje, Tshering Tarkey, Pasang, Kunga Norbu, and Kami Tshering.Everest Fatalities http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/everestfatilities.shtml adventurestats.com 9 June 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110613055601/http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/everestfatilities.shtml 13 June 2011 usurped See also List of deaths on the Eight Thousanders 1974 French Mount Everest expedition (French West ridge expedition) List of Mount Everest expeditions Notes References Category:Mountaineering disasters Category:1970 natural disasters Category:April 1970 in Asia Category:Avalanches in Nepal Category:Mount Everest expeditions Category:1970s avalanches Category:1970 disasters in Nepal Category:Deaths on Mount Everest Category:Mountaineering deaths in Nepal