15 September

Born on this day

1945 Mohammad Jafar Asadi, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 1976.
1949 Antonius Smets, Dutch climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1952 Hiroshi Ishizuka, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1956 Fritz Schreinmoser, Austrian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1986.
1960 Francisco (Patxi) Fernández, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1990 and Everest in 1992.
1960 Michael Arthur Grimm, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2024.
1962 Andrew Salek, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1963 Anu Nõulik, Estonian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013 (disputed!).
1966 Azumi Goto, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1990.
1966 Han Wang-Yong, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1994, Everest in 1995, Dhaulagiri I, Gasherbrum I and Lhotse in 1997, Annapurna I and Nanga Parbat in 1998, Manaslu RP and K2 in 2000, Makalu and Shisha Pangma in 2001, Kangchenjunga in 2002 and Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak in 2003.
1967 Go Mi-Sun (in Korea Mi-Young), Korean lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, Everest, Broad Peak and Shisha Pangma in 2007, Lhotse, K2 and Manaslu RP in 2008 and Makalu, Kangchenjunga, Dhaulagiri I and Nanga Parbat in 2009. She died by a fall on descent of the latter, aged 41.
1967 Mohamed Rozani Maarof, Malaysian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1968 Catherine Jane (Katie) Sarah, Australian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2010 and Manaslu RP in 2018.
1969 Kunihito Nakagawa, Japanese climber, who ascended K2 in 1997.
1969 Paul Romero, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2010. He also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits in 2011 together with his son, who is the youngest person on Everest and on both Seven Summits versions.
1971 Wong Wai-Kin, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018 and Lhotse in 2019.
1971 Gankhuu Sainbayar, Mongolian climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1972 Robert Pulka, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1973 Ngima Chhiring Lama, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest three times (2011, 2014 and 2018), Gasherbrum II and Cho Oyu in 2013, Makalu in 2016 and Manaslu RP in 2018.
1981 Filipe Chamusca De Moura, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1982 James Nicholas Cunningham, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2009, where he also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits.
1982 Peter Sunnucks, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1986 Huang Chungui, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Everest in 2008.
1986 Prabhat Gaurav Sonu, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1990 Thomas James Martienssen, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1991 Kaho Matsunami, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1994 Jeffrey William Wildeman, Canadian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1994 Matthew Alexander Cornell, American climber, who ascended Khumbakarna (Jannu, 7711 m) in 2023.
1994 Fura Sonam, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.

First ascents on this day

1958 Kangze'gyai (5808 m) by a Chinese party.
1975 Brammah II (6425 m) by a Japanese party. Notice, that this mountain is nine meters higher than Brammah I.
1996 Hkakabo Razi (5881 m) by a Japanese party.

Gone on this day

2015 Christoph Hägele (aka Chris Myagar and Karl Herberger), German climber, who achieved several first ascents in the Indian Himalaya and who was an excellent geographical researcher, died in an avalanche in the French Alps, aged 39.
2018 Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian pioneer, who participated in the first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957, died, aged 90.