what are five popular mt everest climbing routes

Actually there are only two publicly recognized routes to the summit of Mt. Everest. On is on the North Side and one is on the South. The North Route is the more commonly used one due to it is safer nature. There may be more routes up the mountain, but they would be terribly dangerous and require a lot of extra mountaineering and climbing.

15 different routes r recognized as completed on Everest.

1.) May 29, 1953: First Summit: Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (New Zealand) via the South-East Ridge Route. (Western Cwm, Lhotse face to the South-East ridge.) A picture of the route is here.

2.) May 25, 1960: Chinese team makes first Summit of Everest via the North Ridge.

3.) May 22, 1963: The first ascent of the Everest West Ridge, actually the West Ridge/North Face by Willi Unsoeld & Tom Hornbein. Also the first traverse as they descended the South East Ridge/ South Col.

4.) September 24, 1975: Dougal Haston & Doug Scott Summit via the South west face.

5.) May 13, 1979: Andrej Stremfelj & Jernej Zaplotnik reached the Summit via the true West ridge & descend via the Hornbein Couloir.

6.) May 10, 1980: Tsuneoh Shigehiro & Takashi Ozaki made the first full ascent of the North Face (Japanese Couloir to the Hornbein Couloir) of Everest.

7.) May 19, 1980: Jerzy Kukuczka & Andrzej Czok followed the South Pillar on on the right hand edge of the Southwest Face.

8.) August 20, 1980: Solo: Reinhold Messner (Italy) 8/20/80 via the North Col to the North Face & the Great Couloir. He climbed for three days entirely alone from his base camp at 6500 meters without the use of artificial oxygen via the North Col/North Face route.

9.) May 4, 1982: 11 Russia climbers reached the Summit via the South West Pillar left of the Great Central Gully on the Southwest Face.

10.) October 8, 1983: Lou Reichardt, Kim Momb, & Carlos Buhler reached the Summit via the East or Kangshung face.

11.) October 3, 1984: Australians Tim Macartney-Snape & Greg Mortimer reached the Summit via the North Couloir (North Face to Norton Couloir) without bottled oxygen.

12.) May 20, 1986: Canadian Sharon Wood became the first North American woman to Summit Everest & climbed the new route of the west Shoulder from the Rongbuk Glacier & continued on to the Summit via the Hornbein Couloir.

13.) May 12, 1988: British Stephen Venables, climbed a line to the left of the 1983 Kangshung Face route. Actually the East Face-South Col-SE Ridge. Venables was the only member of the expedition to reach the Summit.

14.) May 11th, 1995: The first ascent of the Northeast Ridge on May 11th, completed by Kiyoshi Furuno (Japan), Shigeki Imoto (Japan), Dawa Tshering Sherpa, Pasang Sherpa, & Nima Sherpa.

15.) May 20, 1996: The first ascent of the North-Northeast couloir by Peter Kuznetzov, Valeri Kohanov & Grigori Semikolenkov.