26 November

Born on this day

1952 Hideki Yatsuhashi, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992.
1953 Joel Szmelsztayn Kriger, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1955 Akio Koizumi, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1982.
1955 Yuri Sukhanov, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1957 Sergei Borisov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2002 and Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu) in 2004. He died in 2005, aged 47.
1961 Søren Nielsen Gudmann, Danish climber (also Norwegian), who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004, Everest in 2005 and Manaslu RP in 2009. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2005 and the Carstensz-version in 2006.
1961 Thomas Schilcher, Austrian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma twice within seven days in 1985.
1961 Slate Stern, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1961 Walter Lee Elrod, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1963 Pierre Tardivel, French climber and extreme skier, who skied down Everest from below the South Summit to Base Camp in 1992.
1963 Aleksandr Ruchkin, Russian climber, who ascended Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu) in 2004. He died in 2015 on Huandoy Sur (6160 m) in Peru, aged 51.
1963 Chuldim (aka Chuldim Dorje), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (1989 and 2013) and Cho Oyu six times (1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007).
1964 Pablo Luque, Spanish Andalusian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1964 Hannah Shields, British (Northern Irish) lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1964 Andrey Y. Starikovskiy, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1964 Thillaimuthu Nagarajan, Malaysian climber, who ascended Lhotse and Manaslu M in 2022 and Everest in 2023.
1965 Eric Daumas, French climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011.
1966 Pierre Blanc, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1966 Toby Molins, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000.
1966 Stéphane Eric Marc, French climber, who ascended Everest twice (2018 and 2022).
1966 Llewellyn Catlin Connolly, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1967 Nawang Karsang, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2006, 2007 and 2010).
1967 Li Hai-Ying, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017 and Everest in 2018.
1968 Rosier Alexandre Saraiva, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1969 Joseba Gutiérrez, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000.
1970 Igor Stoliarov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2014.
1972 Gernot Eichbaum, German climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2007.
1973 Jangbu (c), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018 and Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2024).
1974 José Manuel Buenaga, Spanish Asturian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2003, where he died on descent, aged 28.
1974 Dwarka Vishwanath Dokhe, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2024 and Lhotse in 2025.
1977 Sona I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu and Nanga Parbat in 2009 and Everest three times (2010, 2012 and 2013). He was murdered by terrorists in BC of Nanga Parbat in 2013, aged 35.
1977 Vitaly Shipilov, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2022.
1978 Thais Amadei Pegoraro, Brazilian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1982 Lhakpa V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2006 and 2016) and Kangchenjunga three times (2008, 2018 and 2019).
1983 Lhakpa Rinji II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1986 Andrea Lanfri, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1991 Ashish Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest four times (2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024) and Lhotse twice (2019 and 2023).
1992 Adrien Laurent Kevin Grumberg, French climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2023.
1993 Sona Chhiri II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2017, 2019, 2023 and 2024).
1994 Mingma Chhiri IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice in 2016.
1999 Dawa XIII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.

Gone on this day

1952 Sven Hedin, Swedish High Asia pioneer, explorer, author and painter, died, aged 87.