Sungdare Sherpa

Sungdare Sherpa (Nepali: सुन्दरे शेर्पा) was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest, who summited Everest on five different climbs.

Sungdare was with Hannelore Schmatz when she died on a 1979 expedition. He remained with her after she died, and as a result, lost most of his fingers and toes to frostbite.

Despite losing his digits, Sungdare summitted Mount Everest four more times after the 1979 expedition.

Sungdare drowned in a river below his village, Pangboche, in 1989.

Elizabeth Hawley stated that he was suffering from alcoholism, and that his death was a suicide. He was survived by his widow, Bhingfuti.

As quoted in an article in Backpacker magazine talking about Mount Everest:

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