Editing Mount Everest (section)

===2014 avalanche and season===
{{main|2014 Mount Everest avalanche}}
[[File:Mt Everest.jpg|thumb|Mount Everest, 2014]]

On 18 April 2014, an avalanche hit the area just below Base Camp 2.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27075638 |title= Everest avalanche kills at least 12 Sherpa guides |work= BBC News |date= 18 April 2014 |access-date= 18 April 2014 |archive-date= 6 August 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220806161427/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27075638 |url-status= live }}</ref> Sixteen people were killed (all Nepali guides) and nine more were injured.<ref name=NYr>{{cite news |last= Krakauer |first= Jon |title= Death and Anger on Everest |url= https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/04/everest-sherpas-death-and-anger.html |access-date= 22 April 2014 |magazine= [[The New Yorker]] |date= 21 April 2014 |quote= Of the twenty-five men hit by the falling ice, sixteen were killed, all of them Nepalis working for guided climbing teams. |archive-date= 21 July 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140721000827/https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/04/everest-sherpas-death-and-anger.html |url-status= live }}</ref> In response to the tragedy, numerous Sherpa climbing guides walked off the job and most climbing companies pulled out in respect for the Sherpa people mourning the loss.<ref name=npr>{{cite news|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/04/24/306390312/injured-sherpa-explains-why-hell-never-climb-mount-everest-again|title=Sherpas Walk Off The Job After Deadly Avalanche|author=McCarthy, Julie|date=24 April 2014|access-date=26 April 2014|archive-date=26 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526072154/http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/04/24/306390312/injured-sherpa-explains-why-hell-never-climb-mount-everest-again|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Sherpas Consider Boycott After Everest Disaster|agency=Associated Press|work=NPR|date=21 April 2014|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=305178526|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421083304/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=305178526|archive-date=21 April 2014|access-date=26 April 2014}}</ref>

During the season, 13-year-old Malavath Purna reached the summit, becoming the youngest female climber to do so.<ref name="Times of India">{{cite news |url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/13-year-old-Andhra-teen-becomes-youngest-woman-to-scale-Everest/articleshow/35598021.cms |work= Times of India |title= 13-year-old Andhra teen becomes the youngest woman to scale Everest |access-date= 25 May 2014 |archive-date= 7 June 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220607160304/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/13-year-old-Andhra-teen-becomes-youngest-woman-to-scale-Everest/articleshow/35598021.cms |url-status= live }}</ref> One team used a helicopter to fly from South Base Camp to Camp 2 to avoid the Khumbu Icefall, then reached the Everest summit. This team had to use the south side because the Chinese had denied them a permit to climb. A team member ([[Wang Jing (mountaineer)|Jing Wang]]) donated US$30,000 to a local hospital.<ref name="news.nationalgeographic.com" /> She was named the Nepali "International Mountaineer of the Year".<ref name="news.nationalgeographic.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140805-mount-everest-sherpa-mountain-climbing-jing-wang-avalanche |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225165537/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140805-mount-everest-sherpa-mountain-climbing-jing-wang-avalanche |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 February 2021 |title= Woman Whose Post-Avalanche Everest Ascent Sparked Outrage Defends Her Feat |website= National Geographic |date= 6 August 2014 |access-date=20 September 2015}}</ref>

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[[File:Everest3d qbd 2014116.jpg|thumb|upright 1.5|left|The location of the fatal ice avalanche on the 2014 route, and the revised 2015 route through the Khumbu]]<!-- this non-standard image needs to be this large to read text-->
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Over 100 people summited Everest from China (Tibet region), and six from Nepal in the 2014 season.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2014/06/09/everest-2014-season-summary-nepal-tragedy/ |title= Everest 2014: Season Summary – A Nepal Tragedy |website= alanarnette.com |format= Blog |access-date= 20 September 2015 |archive-date= 4 August 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220804212024/https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2014/06/09/everest-2014-season-summary-nepal-tragedy/ |url-status= live }}</ref> This included 72-year-old Bill Burke, the Indian teenage girl, and a Chinese woman Jing Wang.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2014/05/23/everest-2014-first-summits/ |title= Everest 2014: Summits – Update 6 |website= alanarnette.com |format= Blog |access-date= 18 May 2016 |archive-date= 4 August 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220804212241/https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2014/05/23/everest-2014-first-summits/ |url-status= live }}</ref> Another teen girl summiter was [[Ming Kipa]] Sherpa who summited with her elder sister [[Lhakpa Sherpa]] in 2003, and who had achieved the most times for woman to the summit of Mount Everest at that time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/25/everest.nepal |title=Teenage girl conquers Everest, 50 years on |author=Luke Harding |website=The Guardian |date=25 May 2003 |access-date=17 June 2016 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203121448/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/25/everest.nepal |url-status=live }}</ref> (see also [[Santosh Yadav]])