07 May

Born on this day

1918 Norman Dyhrenfurth, Swiss-American mountaineer and film maker, who is the son of the pioneer and chronicler Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth. He also was the leader of the successful Everest-expedition in 1963, where the first ascent by the West Ridge and the first traverse of the mountain was achieved. He died in 2017, aged 99.
1921 Gaston Rébuffat, French pioneer, who participated in the first ascent expedition to Annapurna I in 1950. He died in 1985, aged 64.
1945 Enric Font, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1980. He died in an avalanche on Manaslu in 1982, aged 37.
1951 Charles (Chuck) Armatys, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1993.
1951 Philip (Phil) Ershler, American climber, who ascended Everest twice (1984 and 2002) and Kangchenjunga in 1989. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 1989 and for a remarkable second time in 2002 with his wife Susan.
1953 Vladas Vitkauskas, Lithuanian climber, who ascended Everest in 1993. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 1996.
1955 James Edward (Jim) Holliday, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1956 Roberto Vazquez, Spanish Madrilian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1986. He died on Monte Rosa in 2004, aged 48.
1956 Michael Pearson, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1957 Edward John Dohring, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1958 Angchuk Chhering, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1961 Kwon Choon-Sik, Korean climber, who ascended Lhotse Shar in 1989.
1962 David Horrex, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1994.
1962 Charles Scott Clark, American climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2024.
1963 Wolf Jürgen Riehle, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Lhotse in 2021.
1963 Rafael Jensen, Danish climber, who ascended K2 in 1993.
1966 Phurba Bhote, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011.
1967 Fabrice Priez, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Manaslu RP in 2011. He died in an avalanche on Manaslu in 2012, aged 45.
1967 Marko Eberhard Reuss, German climber, who ascended Everest in 2009, where he also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits.
1967 Chetna Sahoo, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1969 Jeffrey Evans, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2001.
1972 Jérôme Brisebourg, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1972 Samuel Lawrence Schwerin, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1973 Vibeke Andrea Sefland, Norwegian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2012, Lhotse and Everest in 2017, Makalu in 2019 and Annapurna I, Dhaulagiri I and Kangchenjunga in 2023.
1976 Emmanuelle Danielle Clair-Dumont, French lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1980 Serghiy Malokhatko, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1980 Badr Al-Shaibani, Saudi-Arabian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1981 Simone La Terra, Italian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 2006, Broad Peak in 2007, Gasherbrum II in 2008, Cho Oyu in 2009 and Manaslu RP in 2011. He died on Dhaulagiri I in 2018, aged 36.
1981 Tyler Daniel Shearburn, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1983 Jonathan Robert Donald Griffith, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1985 Nurbu V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2018 and 2023), Lhotse on 2022, Annapurna I and K2 in 2024 and Makalu, Lhotse and Manaslu M in 2025.
1987 Zhang Yang, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1988 Qiu Zu, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2018 and Everest in 2019.
1988 Rebecca Louise Smith, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1990 Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1993 Mingma Tenjing, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024) and Manaslu M in 2025.
1993 James Bradbury Mansell, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.

First ascent on this day

1978 Himalchuli West (7540 m) by a Japanese party.

Gone on this day

1957 Wilhelm Filchner, German pioneer and explorer, who was in 1900 in the Pamirs, 1903-1905 in NE-Tibet and China, 1911/12 in Antarctica and several times between 1926 and 1938 in other Central Asian places. He died, aged 79.
1995 Michael Zunk, German climber, who ascended Manaslu on that day and died on descent, aged 35.
1997 Ivan Plotnikov, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1991, Dhaulagiri I in 1993, Makalu in 1996 and Everest in 1997, where he died on descent, aged 36. Nikolai Shevtchenko, who was on top of Everest as well, died also on descent, aged 52. Aleksandr Torochin, a third Russian climber from the same expedition, died by a fall on that day also. Mingma Tamang, a Nepalese climber from another expedition, also fell to his death.
2009 Lhakpa Nuru IX, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2007, died on Everest, aged 33.
2010 Sergei Duganov, Russian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2007 and Manaslu RP in 2009, died on Lhotse, aged 43.