Lhotse Shar is a subsidiary mountain of
Lhotse, and the
11th-highest mountain on
Earth, at high. It has the highest fatality rate of all the
eight-thousanders – for every 2 people who summit the mountain, one person dies attempting to. However, this is primarily because most climbers tend to try to ascend to the primary peak of Lhotse, rather than the lowest summit of the mountain. It was first climbed by
Sepp Mayerl and Rolf Walter on May 12, 1970.