During the climbing season of 2013 there has been 661 people climb and reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
Kenton Cool from England UK has climbed Mount Everest 11 times as of 2013.
Today in 2013 it is more like 5,000 people have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
It is said there has been around 220 deaths on Mount Everest.
On the 16th 1975 May Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
Every year is different. Some years no one dies on Mount Everest while like this year (2013) 9 people had died on Everest.
Yuichiro Miura from Japan became the oldest man to reach the top of the world on the 23rd May 2013 at the age of 80. Japanese climber Tamae Watanabe, became the oldest woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 19th May 2012, at the age of 73 years and 180 days old.
Samina Baig became the first Pakistani woman and the third Pakistani to climb Mount Everest on 19th May 2013.
Tom Whittaker from USA became the first disabled/handicapped (has an artificial leg) person to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 27th May 1998.
Arunima Sinha who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest on the 21st May 2013.
Arunima Sinha who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest on the 21st May 2013.
Alexei Bolotov died on May 15, 2013, in Mount Everest, Nepal of fall while climbing.
Chhanda Gayen (9 July 1979 – 20 May 2014) was a Bengali mountaineer, martial artist, explorer, teacher of self-defense, best known for being first civilian woman from the Indian state of West Bengal to climb to the summit of Mount Everest (at 7 A.M., 18 May 2013). She summited Mount Everest and Lhotse in 2013 in the same expedition.