title: Nuptse
Joint Himalayan Committee
Baintha Brakk
Willie Benegas
Gheorghe Dijmărescu
List of Mount Everest death statistics
Latok
Erwin Emata
Kala Patthar
1996 Mount Everest disaster
sentences: Nuptse or Nubtse (Sherpa: ནུབ་རྩེ། नुबचे, Wylie: Nub rtse) is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal, in the Nepalese Himalayas.
 It lies two kilometres WSW of Mount Everest.
 Nubtse is Tibetan for "west peak", as it is the western segment of the Lhotse-Nubtse massif.
The Mount Everest Committee was a body formed by the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society to co-ordinate and finance the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest and all subsequent British expeditions to climb the mountain until 1947.
 It was then renamed the Joint Himalayan Committee; this latter committee organized and financed the successful first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.
Baintha Brakk (Urdu: بائنتھا براک‎ ) or The Ogre is a steep, craggy mountain, 7285 m high, in the Panmah Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range.
 It is located in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
 It is famous for being one of the hardest peaks in the world to climb: twenty-four years elapsed between the first ascent in 1977 and the second in 2001.
Willie Benegas or Guillermo Benegas is an Argentine / US mountain climber.
 He has been climbing for over 25 years and has climbed Mount Everest and Anacongua many times and also climbed many volcanos in Guatemala.
 He is from Argentina (Puerto Pirámides, Chubut State) but now lives in the United States State of Utah.
 In 2005, while working as a Mountain Madness guide, he was noted as being well liked and respected at EBC, and being quick to help others.
 He and his brother won an award in 2003 for pioneering "The Crystal Snake" route on Nuptse.
 He has also climbed himalayan mountains Manaslu, Cho Oyu and Makalu.
 In an interview with one Everest climber, he recounted how Benegas went into the "dead bodies tent" to save the life a man others had given up on.
 That is to say they expected him to die due to various injuries and had fluid coming out of his mouth; however, Willie managed to make an airway and rallied a group of Sherpa's to carry him down.
 Within the hour they had gotten him down and helicopter evacuated out the next day.
 (This was during the 2015 Mount Everest avalanches and earthquake)
Gheorghe Dijmărescu (commonly known as George Dijmarescu) is a Romanian-American famous for escaping from the Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu by swimming the Danube river, and for his mountaineering exploits including summiting Mount Everest multiple times in the early 2000s.
 Gheorghe married Lhakpa Sherpa in 2002, the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest and survive and also the woman with most number of times to the summit of Mount Everest in the early 21st century.
 They met in Kathmandu in the year 2000.
 From 2008 he had some battles with medical problems.
 Some of Dijmărescu's life was included in the Michael Kodas book "High Crimes", a book about a Mount Everest expedition in the early 2000s.
 Dijmărescu organized a 2004 Connecticut expedition to Mount Everest.
List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.
 For a list of mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest, see List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
The Latok group is a small cluster of dramatic rock peaks in the Panmah Muztagh, part of the central Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan.
 They lie just to the east of the Ogre group, dominated by Baintha Brakk.
 To the immediate south of the Latok group lies the Baintha Lukpar Glacier, a small tributary of the Biafo Glacier, one of the main glaciers of the Karakoram.
 On the north side of the group lies the Choktoi Glacier.
Erwin "Pastor" Emata (born 1973 in Davao City) is a mountain climber.
 Based on The Himalayan Database  published by American Alpine Club , Erwin is the third Filipino to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
 Like Leo Oracion, the second Filipino to reach Mount Everest's summit, he is a member of the First Philippine Mount Everest Expedition (FPMEE).
 The Himalayan DataBase published by American Alpine Club had included Leo in the list of Everest South summitteers for 2006 on May 17, officially recognizing him as the 2nd Filipino on top Mount Everest.
Kala Patthar, meaning 'black rock' in Nepali and Hindi, is a notable landmark located on the south ridge of Pumori in the Nepalese Himalayas above Gorakshep.
 Although not a proper mountain, with a prominence of only , the ascent of Kala Patthar is very popular with trekkers in the region of Mount Everest since it provides the most accessible closeup view of Everest.
 Due to the structure of the Everest Massif, its high summit is blocked by Nuptse from much of the surrounding region.
 The views of Everest, Nuptse and Changtse are spectacular from Kala Patthar and there are glimpses of the northern flank and summit of Lhotse.
 The world's highest webcam, Mount Everest webcam, is located here.
The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996, when eight people caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest during attempts to descend from the summit.
 Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest day and year on Mount Everest before the 16 fatalities of the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche and the 18 deaths resulting from avalanches caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
 The 1996 disaster gained wide publicity and raised questions about the commercialization of Everest.

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 Nuptse or Nubtse (Sherpa: ནུབ་རྩེ། नुबचे, Wylie: Nub rtse) is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal, in the Nepalese Himalayas.
 It lies two kilometres WSW of Mount Everest.
 Nubtse is Tibetan for "west peak", as it is the western segment of the Lhotse-Nubtse massif. 

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 The Mount Everest Committee was a body formed by the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society to co-ordinate and finance the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest and all subsequent British expeditions to climb the mountain until 1947.
 It was then renamed the Joint Himalayan Committee; this latter committee organized and financed the successful first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. 

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 Baintha Brakk (Urdu: بائنتھا براک‎ ) or The Ogre is a steep, craggy mountain, 7285 m high, in the Panmah Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range.
 It is located in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
 It is famous for being one of the hardest peaks in the world to climb: twenty-four years elapsed between the first ascent in 1977 and the second in 2001. 

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 Willie Benegas or Guillermo Benegas is an Argentine / US mountain climber.
 He has been climbing for over 25 years and has climbed Mount Everest and Anacongua many times and also climbed many volcanos in Guatemala.
 He is from Argentina (Puerto Pirámides, Chubut State) but now lives in the United States State of Utah.
 In 2005, while working as a Mountain Madness guide, he was noted as being well liked and respected at EBC, and being quick to help others.
 He and his brother won an award in 2003 for pioneering "The Crystal Snake" route on Nuptse.
 He has also climbed himalayan mountains Manaslu, Cho Oyu and Makalu.
 In an interview with one Everest climber, he recounted how Benegas went into the "dead bodies tent" to save the life a man others had given up on.
 That is to say they expected him to die due to various injuries and had fluid coming out of his mouth; however, Willie managed to make an airway and rallied a group of Sherpa's to carry him down.
 Within the hour they had gotten him down and helicopter evacuated out the next day.
 (This was during the 2015 Mount Everest avalanches and earthquake) 

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 Gheorghe Dijmărescu (commonly known as George Dijmarescu) is a Romanian-American famous for escaping from the Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu by swimming the Danube river, and for his mountaineering exploits including summiting Mount Everest multiple times in the early 2000s.
 Gheorghe married Lhakpa Sherpa in 2002, the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest and survive and also the woman with most number of times to the summit of Mount Everest in the early 21st century.
 They met in Kathmandu in the year 2000.
 From 2008 he had some battles with medical problems.
 Some of Dijmărescu's life was included in the Michael Kodas book "High Crimes", a book about a Mount Everest expedition in the early 2000s.
 Dijmărescu organized a 2004 Connecticut expedition to Mount Everest. 

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 List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.
 For a list of mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest, see List of people who died climbing Mount Everest 

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 Kala Patthar, meaning 'black rock' in Nepali and Hindi, is a notable landmark located on the south ridge of Pumori in the Nepalese Himalayas above Gorakshep.
 Although not a proper mountain, with a prominence of only , the ascent of Kala Patthar is very popular with trekkers in the region of Mount Everest since it provides the most accessible closeup view of Everest.
 Due to the structure of the Everest Massif, its high summit is blocked by Nuptse from much of the surrounding region.
 The views of Everest, Nuptse and Changtse are spectacular from Kala Patthar and there are glimpses of the northern flank and summit of Lhotse.
 The world's highest webcam, Mount Everest webcam, is located here. 

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 The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996, when eight people caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest during attempts to descend from the summit.
 Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest day and year on Mount Everest before the 16 fatalities of the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche and the 18 deaths resulting from avalanches caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
 The 1996 disaster gained wide publicity and raised questions about the commercialization of Everest. 

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Answer: Nuptse