Marty Hoey (1951 – May 15, 1982) was a mountaineer and mountain guide who took part in a 1982 expedition to Mount Everest. During an attempted ascent that would have made her the first American woman to summit Everest, she plunged over the edge of the Great Couloir to her death, as the result of an unsecured climbing harness. She had scaled Washington's Mount Rainier over 100 times, and led expeditions on Alaska's Denali.
Hoey also worked for Dick Bass, as safety patrol chief at the Snowbird ski resort.
Death on Everest
Expedition teammate Jim Wickwire said that he and Hoey were perched on a 45-degree rock slope at about , carrying gear to establish Camp 6, with the expectation of heading for the summit in the next day or two.
Hoey's body was never recovered. Whittaker said, "I can't think of a more beautiful resting place; she fell into the prettiest place that ever was." Some other fatalities that season were noted British climbers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker.