01 November

Born on this day

1928 Josef Hála, Czech renowned pianist and passionate mountaineering chronicler for High Asia. He died in 2019, aged 91.
1937 Georg Seifried, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1993.
1938 Karl-Ludwig Waag, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1938 Marcel Rüedi, Swiss climber, who ascended Tirich Mir in 1975, Dhaulagiri I in 1980, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak in 1983, Manaslu M and Nanga Parbat in 1984, K2 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1985 and Cho Oyu and Makalu in 1986, where he died on descent, aged 47.
1947 Ivan Dusharin, Russian climber, who ascended Everest three times (1992, 2005 and 2012), Nanga Parbat in 1997 and Cho Oyu in 2002. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2012.
1948 Rolf Haas, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1994.
1952 Toshiaki Yano, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 1998, Broad Peak in 2000 and K2 in 2004.
1955 Peter Bailey, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1956 Chung Jang-Keun, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1956 Michael Lee Paterson, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1958 Arthur Collins, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1958 André Rech, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013.
1962 Anthony C. King, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005 and Everest in 2007.
1962 David Schlimme, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1963 Peter Beglinger, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2001.
1963 Kjetil Rønning Hansen, Norwegian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014.
1963 Erlend Ness, Norwegian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1968 Seok Jin-Ho, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1969 Wu Bin, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2025.
1970 Marcello Ricardo Deza, Argentinean climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1971 Kwon Soon-Jae, Korean climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 2000.
1971 Pasang Nima I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1973 Đorđije Vujičić, Montenegrin climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1973 Gheorghe Badea, Romanian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2022.
1975 Oksana Morneva, Russian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009, Manaslu RP three times (2013, 2017 and 2018) and Lhotse twice (2018 and 2019).
1975 Federico Sacchi, Argentinean climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 2007.
1977 Devidutta Panda, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1979 Greg Nieuwenhuys, Dutch climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1979 Mamta Sodha, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1979 Aliaksei Hlushakou, Belarusian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1983 Sergey Denisenko, Uzbek climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1989 Jean-Baptiste François Daniel Chandesris, French climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I (WRFS) in 2017, Manaslu RP in 2019 and Everest in 2025.
1992 Tsewang Motup, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1993 Karma Zopa, Indian climber, who ascended Everest twice (2017 and 2019).
1994 Mingmar V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2017, 2024 and 2026) and Manaslu M in 2025.
1998 Ongdak, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2022, 2024 and 2025) and Lhotse in 2026.
1999 Urgen, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 2022 and Everest three times (2023, 2025 and 2026).

First ascents on this day

1969 Gurja Himal (7193 m) by a Japanese party.
1984 Cho Polu (6700 m) by the Spanish climber Nil Bohigas.
2007 Gurkarpo Ri (6891 m) by a French party.
2016 Saldim East-Peak (6374 m) by a Romanian party. Main-Peak (6388 m) is still unclimbed.

Gone on this day

1998 Lute G. Jerstad, American pioneer, who ascended Everest in 1963, died, aged 62.
2006 Bruno Carvalho, Portuguese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma the day before, died on descent, aged 31.
2008 Stanislav Šilhán, Czech climber,who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1990, Cho Oyu in 1994, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995 and Gasherbrum I in 1997, died, aged 53.