08 January

Born on this day

1859 Fanny Bullock Workman, American lady pioneer, who was the first woman on top of a Himalayan peak back in 1906. She died in 1925, aged 66.
1932 Max Eiselin, Swiss pioneer, who led the expedition, that resulted in the first ascent of Dhaulagiri I in 1960.
1942 Sonam Wangyal, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 1965.
1955 Grigory Lunyakov, Kazakh climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga twice in 1989 (the second time traversing the South-, Central-, Main- and West-Peaks) and Everest in 1990. He died later that year by a fall on Manaslu, aged 35.
1955 Shigeru Suzuki, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1978 and Kangchenjunga in 1981.
1956 Ingrid Baeyens, Belgian lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1988, Dhaulagiri I in 1990, Annapurna I in 1991 and Everest in 1992.
1956 Trond Eilertsen, Norwegian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1958 Lee Dong-Yeon, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1989.
1958 Hiroyuki Sato, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1962 Christopher Shaw, American climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1998, K2 in 2000 and Shisha Pangma in 2001.
1962 Gennady Dolgov, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1966 John P. Griber, American climber, who ascended Everest twice (2007 and 2009).
1966 Hugo David Searle, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1967 Renato Sottsass, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002, K2 in 2004, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2007 and Everest in 2008.
1968 Heinz Blatter, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1994.
1968 Melvyn (Mel) Proudlock, British climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2009 and Everest in 2013.
1969 Jiji (Gigi), Tibetan lady climber, who ascended Everest three times (1999, 2005 and 2008), Cho Oyu in 2002 and Gasherbrum I in 2007.
1969 Izumi Tsuboi, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1969 Scott G. Simper, American climber, who ascended Everest three times (2010, 2017 and 2021).
1971 Hirotaka Takeuchi, Japanese climber, who ascended Makalu in 1995, Everest and K2 in 1996, Nanga Parbat in 2001, Annapurna I and Gasherbrum I in 2004, Shisha Pangma in 2005, Kangchenjunga in 2006, Manaslu RP twice (2007 and 2014), Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak in 2008, Lhotse in 2009, Cho Oyu in 2011 and Dhaulagiri I in 2012.
1971 Zhang Jian, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1975 Stuart Long, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2010.
1975 Łukasz Marek Lubelski, Polish climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 2024.
1977 Alejandro Garibay, Mexican climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1977 Thais Karina Herrera Jimenez, Dominican lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1980 Nima Dorje Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, twice in 2010 and 2013).
1980 Wu Ting, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
1982 Song Qiang, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1988 Damai Sarki, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017 and Everest in 2018.
1993 Tsewang Kalden, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
2001 Adriana Brownlee Pinon, British lady climber, who ascended Everest, Manaslu RP and Dhaulagiri I in 2021, Annapurna I, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 in 2022 and Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I, Cho Oyu in 2023 and Shisha Pangma in 2024.