In 2018 , Kami Rita told a journalist that the government does not support the Sherpas . " We are famous around the world . Many foreigners know us , but our government does n’t care about us " . He said that when Ang Rita Sherpa was hospitalised in Kathmandu in 2017 after a brain haemorrhage the government provided no support . Although climbing is safer than in the past because of superior equipment and weather forecasts , the occupation is still dangerous , he told a reporter in 2018 . ( the 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche killed 16 Sherpas ; in 2015 , 10 Sherpas died at the Everest Base Camp after the avalanches in the wake of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake . In total , 118 Sherpas have died on Everest between 1921 and 2018 . ) " The crevasses are deep and the slopes are unpredictable , " Kami Rita said . An April 2018 report by NPR stated that Sherpas account for one-third of Everest deaths
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
Kami Rita