Himalayan Climber Data
Source Original source: https://www.himalayandatabase.com/. Complete dataset distributed by: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2020/2020-09-22/.
Description A sub-sample of the Himalayan Database distributed through the R for Data Science TidyTuesday project. This dataset includes information on the results and conditions for various Himalayan climbing expeditions. Each row corresponds to a single member of a climbing expedition team.
Usage climbers_sub Format A data frame with 2076 observations (1 per climber) and 22 variables:
expedition_id unique expedition identifier
member_id unique climber identifier
peak_id unique identifier of the expedition’s destination peak
peak_name name of the expedition’s destination peak
year year of expedition
season season of expedition (Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter)
sex climber gender identity which the database oversimplifies to a binary category
age climber age
citizenship climber citizenship
expedition_role climber’s role in the expedition (eg: Co-Leader)
hired whether the climber was a hired member of the expedition
highpoint_metres the destination peak’s highpoint (metres)
success whether the climber successfully reached the destination
solo whether the climber was on a solo expedition
oxygen_used whether the climber utilized supplemental oxygen
died whether the climber died during the expedition
death_cause death_height_metres injured whether the climber was injured on the expedition
injury_type injury_height_metres count number of climbers in the expedition
height_metres height of the peak in meters
first_ascent_year the year of the first recorded summit of the peak (though not necessarily the actual first summit!)