Table 3. Death rates (overall and on descent from summit), numbers of deaths, and numbers of climbers at risk (boldfaced).
Time period | ||||||
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Rate | 1990–1994 | 1995–1999 | 2000–2004 | 2005–2009 | 2010–2014 | 2015–2019 |
Overall death rate | 0.8 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.8 |
Total deaths | 2 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
N climbers at risk | 227 | 499 | 900 | 1363 | 1154 | 1181 |
Descent death rate | 0.0 | 6.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 |
Total descent deaths | 0 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
N summiters | 62 | 147 | 326 | 724 | 715 | 816 |
Overall death rates are for all climbers who went above base camp, and descent death rate is only for climbers descending from the summit. Numbers here reflect our primary subset of members (i.e., first-time climbers, on commercial route, in spring during non-disaster years).