24 April

Born on this day

1941 Chandra Prabha Aitwal, Indian lady climber, who ascended Kamet in 1977 and Nanda Devi in 1981.
1944 Sergei Efimov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 1982, Kangchenjunga in 1989 and Dhaulagiri I in 1993.
1944 Glenn A. Brindeiro, American climber, who ascended Nanda Devi in 1978. He died in an avalanche on Gasherbrum II in 1982, aged 38.
1947 Jun Kageyama, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 1976.
1950 Madeleine Pasche, Swiss lady climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998, Gasherbrum II in 2000 and Cho Oyu in 2001.
1950 Keith Boskoff, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996. He died in 1999, aged 48.
1959 Cheryl Sarah Bart, Australian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007 and Everest in 2008 accompanied by her daughter.
1961 Stanislav Krylov, Russian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1995, Cho Oyu in 1997 and Everest in 2001. He died in 2005 on Shisha Pangma, aged 44.
1963 Pietro Trabucchi, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1964 Dean Douglas Staples, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999, Cho Oyu twice (2003 and 2004), Everest nine times (2004, 2005, 2006, twice in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013), Lhotse in 2013, Dhaulagiri I and Manaslu RP in 2017 and Broad Peak in 2019.
1973 James Allen, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 1995.
1976 Artyom Skopin, Kazakh climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1981 Samantha (Squash) Falconer, British lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008 and Everest in 2011.
1981 Samir Jung Thapa, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018 and Everest in 2019.
1983 Chheden Lama, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2018, 2019 and 2023) and Manaslu M in 2023.
1984 Roman Reutov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1984 José Eduardo Sartor Filho, Brazilian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1987 Sheikh Hassan Khan Ali Shahida, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1992 Pemba Chhiri V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1992 Savannah Cummins, American lady climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2022.
1994 Musa Ali, Pakistani climber, who ascended K2 in 2018.
1997 Chhiring IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019, Everest in 2021 and Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2023.

First ascents on this day

1880 Cotocachi (Ecuador, 4944m) by Edward Whymper and party.
1965 Ngozumpa Kang II (7743 m) by a Japanese party.
1972 Chobutse (6686 m) by a German party.
1993 Pathibara (aka Pyramid Peak, 7140 m) finally ascended by an Indo-Japanese party. A North-Eastern subsummit of about 7075 m was reached back in 1949 by a Swiss team led by René Dittert.

Gone on this day

1983 Jernej Zaplotnik, Slovenian climber, who ascended Makalu in 1975, Gasherbrum I in 1977 and Everest in 1979. He died in an avalanche on Manaslu, aged 31.