List of Mount Everest guides

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This is a list of notable Mount Everest guides, which are professional mountaineers (and mountaineering firms) who help people to ascend Mount Everest in the Himalayas in return for fees. Previously, the summit was only accessible to expert mountaineers who were often self-guided, or assisted by local sherpas.

Role

Guides can, for example, set fixed lines of rope for others to use, organize rescues in times of trouble, or use communication tools to call in helicopter evacuations.{{cite web|url=http://www.mounteverest.net/expguide/ropes.htm|title=Fixed ropes - climbers guide to Everest|work=mounteverest.net|accessdate=23 March 2015}} Another job on Mount Everest is as an "icefall doctor" using ladders and ropes to make a path across the Khumbu Icefall, which guides might do themselves or delegate to others.{{Cite web|url=https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/elite-sherpa-dies-fall-everest/|title=Elite Sherpa Dies in Fall on Everest|date=April 8, 2013}} Guides, especially if they are guiding for a mountaineering or adventure company, often call the people they help up "clients".

Another task on Everest is helping people with medical problems, although the work can be dangerous.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2015/04/26/marisa-eve-girawong-dies-everest/26410659/|title=Rutgers graduate dies on Mount Everest|website=Courier News}} When potentially deadly health conditions strike, the guides can sometimes lose their clients or abort the climb. One mother of two died after developing a health problem at the Everest base camp.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/mounteverest/11145694/British-mother-Debra-Wilding-dies-climbing-Everest.html|title = British mother Debra Wilding dies climbing Everest}}

Mount Everest guides assist climbers on what are called "guided" climbs, and guided ascent can cost double an unguided one.[http://www.vsthemountain.com/2010/05/cost-of-climbing-everest.html The Cost$ of Climbing Everest, 2010] Many climbers in more recent times are unguided but can get some support from a Sherpa, which, though more similar to an Alpinist porter, is much cheaper and also called a guide. The term guide can mean something along the lines of an assistant all the way to a World-famous mountaineer.

Notable guides

Adrian Ballinger{{Cite web|url=https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/guide-putting-everest-expeditions-fast-track/|title=Speeding Up Everest|date=April 3, 2014}}
Andy Harris
Andy Tyson{{Cite web|url=https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/obituaries/andy-tyson/article_8613a050-e491-11e4-91e0-1fafb11fd69a.html|title=Andy Tyson|date=April 16, 2015|website=Teton Valley News}}
Anatoli Boukreev{{cite web |url=http://www.riverbendbooks.com.au/products/603495?barcode=9780385494786&title=IntoThinAir%3AAPersonalAccountoftheMountEverestDisaster |title=Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (9780385494786) {{!}} Riverbend Books |website=www.riverbendbooks.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714205436/http://www.riverbendbooks.com.au/products/603495?barcode=9780385494786&title=IntoThinAir%3AAPersonalAccountoftheMountEverestDisaster |archive-date=2015-07-14}}
Andrew Lock[http://www.AndrewLockAdventures.com Home]
Arnold Coster
[https://mountaintrip.com/about-us/meet-our-guides/bill-allen/ Bill Allen]
Dan Nash
Daniel Mazur{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13464475|title=Inside Dateline: Everest survivor|date=June 21, 2006|website=NBC News}}
Dave Hahn{{Cite web|url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/125-everest-maxed-out/jenkins-text|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607230858/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/125-everest-maxed-out/jenkins-text|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2013|title=National Geographic}}
David Breashears{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2003/11/12/cz_jc_1112sport.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040511035411/http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/12/cz_jc_1112sport.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 11, 2004|title = The Adventurer: Dick Bass' Many Summits|website = Forbes}}
David Hamilton{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/12/mount-everest-sherpa-disaster-one-year-on|title=Everest: is it right to go back to the top? |date=2015-04-12|work=The Guardian |access-date=2018-01-12|language=en-GB}}
David Morton{{cite web |url=https://www.outsideonline.com/1978001/after-shock-walking-everest-route |title=After the Shock: Walking the Everest Route {{!}} Outside Online |website=www.outsideonline.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510101416/http://www.outsideonline.com/1978001/after-shock-walking-everest-route |archive-date=2015-05-10}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.outsideonline.com/2064481/david-morton-and-ghosts-everest|title = Dave Morton is Quitting Everest. Maybe. (It's Complicated.)|date = 5 April 2016}}
[https://mountaintrip.com/about-us/meet-our-guides/jacob-schmitz/ Jacob Schmitz]
Dean Staples{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/record-breaking-glory-on-mt-everest/6AS3IVGYTDMAKWSRW52USZPO5Q/|title=Record-breaking glory on Mt Everest|date=May 25, 2023|website=The New Zealand Herald }}
Eric Simonson{{cite web|url=http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/expeditions/everest-mallory-anker/ |title=Conrad Anker, the Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest -- National Geographic |accessdate=2013-08-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607063501/http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/expeditions/everest-mallory-anker/ |archivedate=2013-06-07 }}
Garrett Madison{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/26/mountaineers-guides-everest-avalanche/26410705/|title=Mount Everest avalanche survivor: 'I had to survive'|website=USA TODAY}}
Gheorghe Dijmărescu
Kenton Cool{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-32203956|title=What is it like to climb Everest?|work=BBC News }}
Lydia Bradey
[http://climbingthesevensummits.com/mike-hamill/ Mike Hamill]
Mark Whetu{{Cite web|url=http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web07-08w/video-mm-fatal-game|title=The Fatal Game - Alpinist.com|website=www.alpinist.com}}
Mark Woodward
Michael Horst{{cite web|url=http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/everest_and_lhotse_in_less_than_21_hours/ |title=Everest and Lhotse in Less Than 21 Hours |publisher=Climbing.com |accessdate=16 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920230624/http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/everest_and_lhotse_in_less_than_21_hours/ |archivedate=20 September 2011 }}
Michael Groom
Mike Roberts
Neal Beidleman{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/everest/etc/facts.html|title=Facts & Statistics | Storm Over Everest | FRONTLINE | PBS|website=www.pbs.org}}
Phil Crampton{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/everest-on-hold-as-sherpas-call-for-fairer-pay-558480|title=Everest on hold as Sherpas call for fairer pay|website=NDTV.com}}
Phil Ershler{{Cite web|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/article/Conquering-life-s-lows-has-been-the-true-test-of-1231425.php|title=Conquering life's lows has been the true test of climbing couple's mettle}}
Rob Hall{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/everest/etc/remembering.html|title=Those Who Died | Storm Over Everest | FRONTLINE | PBS|website=www.pbs.org}}
Russell Brice{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49DKBgAAQBAJ&dq=russell+brice+himex+1996&pg=PA5|title=The Times They Are A Changin': The Effect of Institutional Change on Cooperative Behaviour at 26,000ft over Sixty Years|first1=D.|last1=Savage|first2=B.|last2=Torgler|date=February 25, 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781137525154 |via=Google Books}}
Scott Fischer
Vernon Tejas
Wally Berg{{Cite web|url=https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/everest-wally-berg/|title=Everest: Wally Berg|date=May 14, 2010}}
Ryan Waters
Willie Benegas