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This is a   list of earthquakes in Nepal . It includes those events with their   epicentre   in the country and those that occurred outside the country, but caused significant damage in Nepal. Date Time‡ Place Magnitude Comments Sources 7 June 1255 Kathmandu 26 August 1833 Kathmandu/ Bihar 8.0 M s 7 July 1869 Kathmandu 6.5 M s 28 August 1916 06:39 Nepal/ Tibet 7.7 M s

1922: 7 Sherpa climbers died in an avalanche becoming the first reported deaths on Mt. Everest.   1953: First Summit on May 29, 1953 by Mr. Tenzing Norgay of Nepal & Sir Edmund Percival Hillary of New Zealand via the South-East Ridge Route. (Lhotse face is  to the South-East Ridge). 1965: Mr. Nawang Gombu Sherpa on May 20, 1965 became the first person to summit Everest twice. Both of his summits were via the South East Ridge, his first as a member of Mr. Jim Whittaker's American Expedition where he became the 11th person to summit Everest. Out of the first seventeen summits of Everest, Nawang had two of them.