First Ascents of Routes on Mount Everest, 1963-1987
First Ascents of Routes on Mount Everest, 1963-1987
Compiled by Dee Molenaar
Year
Date(s)
Route
Nationality
Climbers
1953
5/29
South Col, South Ridge
British, New Zealand, Indian
Edmund Hillary Tenzing Norgay
1960
5/25
Northeast Ridge
Chinese
Wang Fu-chou Chu Yin-hua Gonpa (Tibetan)
1963
5/22
West Ridge,
Hornbein Couloir
American
Tom Hornbein Willi Unsoeld
1975
9/24
9/26
Southwest Face, ramp to above South Summit
British
Dougal Haston Doug Scott
Peter Boardman Pertemba Mick Burke (?—disappeared)
1979
5/13
West Ridge Direct
Yugoslavian
Andrej Stremfelj Nejc Zaplotnik
5/15
-ditto-
rr
Stane Belax Stipe Božic Ang Phu (Sherpa)
1980
2/19
South Buttress
Polish
Andrzej Czok Jerzy Kukuczka
1980
5/10
Japanese Couloir, Hornbein Couloir
Japanese
Tsuneo Shigehiro Takashi Ozaki
1980
8/20
Upper North Face, Great Couloir
Italian Tirol
Reinhold Messner
1982
5/4
Southwest Buttress
U.S.S.R.
Eduard Myslovsky Vladimir Balyberdin
5/4
-ditto-
rr
Sergei Bershov Mikhail Turkevich
5/5
-ditto-
it
Valentin Ivanov Sergei Ephimov
5/8
-ditto-
tt
Kazbek Valiev V. Khrishchaty
5/9
-ditto-
rr
Yuri Golodov Vladimir Puchkov Valery Khomutov
1983
10/8
Kangshung Face
American
Carlos Buhler Kim Momb Louis Reichardt
Year
Date(s)
Route
Nationality
Climbers
1983
10/9
Kangshung Face
American
Jay Cassell George Lowe Daniel Reid
1984
10/3
Great Couloir Direct from Rongbuk Glacier
Australian
Tim McCartney-Snape Greg Mortimer Andy Henderson (to 150 ft below top)
1984
10/20
Central North Face, Great Couloir
American
Phil Ershler