Up to 2018, there are 19 routes to climb Mount Everest (1 opened in the 1950s, 2 in the 1960s, 2 in the 1970s, 11 in the 1980s, 3 in the 1990s, and 2 in the 21st century), including South Slope route, North Slope route and 17 other routes. 7,000 people have chose the two traditional routes on the north and south slopes, and the number of people who choose the remaining 17 routes is just over one hundred. Among these routes, there are Himalayan expedition style, no Sherpa-backup style, and there are also alpine style and solo style.
Everest climbing road map
The two traditional routes are Nepal's southeast ridge route (found by the Swiss mountaineering team in 1952, but they didn’t succeed in reaching the top. On May 29, 1953, the British team first succeeded along this line - became the most used route for commercial customers) The northeastern ridge route of Tibet (created by the Chinese mountaineering team and successfully climbed to the top on May 25, 1960 - is the only route used by commercial customers in the north).
The other 17 lines are:
1. The route of the west ridge to the north wall: initiated by the American team WilliUnsoeld and Tom Hornbein, and reached the summit on May 22, 1963.
2, southwest wall route: pioneered by the British Bonnington team, DougalHaston and DougScott summit on September 24, 1975.
3. Northwest Ridge Route: Founded by the former Yugoslav team, AndrejStremfelj and JernejZaplotnik reached the summit on May 13, 1979.
4. The north wall straight line: First created by the Japanese team, Tsuneoh Shigehiro and Takashi Ozaki reached the summit on May 10, 1980.
5. The southern columnar ridge route: opened by the Polish team, JerzyKukuczka and AndrzejCzok reached the summit on May 19, 1980. This is the only route that has not seen death.
6. The northeast ridge turns to the north wall route: the Italian Messner was the first to be single, and on August 20, 1980, the anaerobic summit – single, anaerobic, new line.
7. The southwestern column turns to the central ditch to the southwestern ridge route: it was created by the former Soviet team, and 11 former Soviet climbers reached the summit on May 4, 1982.
8. The east wall turns to the southeast ridge route: it was first created by the San Francisco Bay Area team, and LouReichardt, KimMomb and CarlosBuhler reached the summit on October 8, 1983.
9. North Wall Turning North Canyon Route: Created by the Australian team, TimMacartney-Snape and GregMortimer reached the top on October 3, 1984 – anaerobic, new lines.
10. West shoulder turn to Hornbein Canyon route: pioneered by Canadian SharonWood (female), summited on May 20, 1986. She is the first woman in North America to climb Mount Everest - women, singles, new routes.
11. Dongbi-Nanjing-Southeast Ridge Route: Created by the American and New Zealand International Adventures, the British StephenVenables reached the summit on May 12, 1988.
12. The whole route of the Northeast Ridge: Created by Japan, Japanese Kiyoshi Furuno, Shigeki Imoto and Sherpa Dawa Tshering, Pasang, Nima reached the summit on May 11, 1995.
13. North-Northern East Valley Route: Australians climbed and were completed by the Russian team. Peter Kuznetzov, ValeriKohanov and Grigori Semikolenkov reached the summit on May 20, 1996.
14. The north wall straight line: The 16th Everest climbing route initiated by Russian mountaineering team P. Shabaline, Iljas Tukhvatullin and Andrew Mariev, successfully climbed to the top on May 30, 2004.
15. Northwall Norton Trench: In 1984, climbed by Phil Ershler
16. North Wall (east side of Norton Trench): In 1991, Battistino Bonati (Italy), Leopold Sulovsky (Czech) summit
17. Southwest Wall: In 2009, Young-Seok, Jin Jae-Chang, Kang Ki-Seok and Shin Dong-Min (Korea) climbed to the top.
