10 May

Born on this day

1952 Bruce Hill, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995.
1955 Nima Dorje I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1986, Cho Oyu five times (1987, 1992, 1993, 1998 and 2001), Makalu in 1990, Everest seven times (1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2002), Dhaulagiri I in 1994, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995, Manaslu RP in 1996 and Kangchenjunga in 2000.
1955 Marcel Bach, Swiss climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1956 Hubert Wehrs, German climber, who ascended Manaslu in 1983.
1956 Vasily Kernitskiy, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1957 Guisang (aka KuiSang), Tibetan lady climber, who ascended Everest twice (1990 and 1999), Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1994 and Cho Oyu in 2002.
1957 Charlotte Fox, American lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1994, Cho Oyu in 1995, Everest on her 39th birthday in 1996 and Dhaulagiri I in 2017. She died in 2018, aged 61.
1957 Wangjia (aka Wangyal), Tibetan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (1985 and 1994), Everest twice (1990 and 2007), Dhaulagiri I in 1993, Shisha Pangma in 1994, Gasherbrum II in 1995 and Manaslu RP in 1996.
1958 Ilyas Tukhvatullin, Uzbek climber, who ascended Everest twice (1998 and 2004) and K2 in 2007. He died in 2012 on Annapurna I, aged 54.
1960 Tomoji Kato, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1985 and Cho Oyu in 1987.
1962 Luoze (Lodue, Lhotse), Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest three times (1990, 1999 and 2008), Dhaulagiri I in 1993, Shisha Pangma and Cho Oyu in 1994, Gasherbrum II in 1995, Manaslu RP in 1996, Nanga Parbat in 1997, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse in 1998, Broad Peak Foresummit in 2001, Makalu in 2003, K2 in 2004, Annapurna I in 2006 and Gasherbrum I in 2007.
1962 Mikhail Melnikov, Belarusian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004 and Nanga Parbat in 2007.
1963 Per Mikael Sunnemark, Swedish climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1964 Mario Panzeri, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1988, Everest in 1992, K2 in 1996, Lhotse in 1997, Annapurna I and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2005, Makalu and Gasherbrum II in 2006 and Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak in 2008, Manaslu RP in 2009, Shisha Pangma in 2010, Kangchenjunga and Gasherbrum I in 2011 and Dhaulagiri I in 2012.
1965 Fumiaki Goto, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in autumn 1993, Everest in winter 1993, Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak in 1997, Shisha Pangma in 1999 and Gasherbrum I in 2002.
1965 David Keaton, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1994 and finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits in 1995.
1966 Olaf Zill, German climber, who ascended Makalu in 2000, Dhaulagiri I in 2003 and Cho Oyu in 2004.
1968 Simon George Greaves, British climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1969 Phura Chhiri (Phurba Chhiri), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP seven times (1997, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014), Lhotse three times (1999, 2003 and 2017), Cho Oyu three times (2001, 2007 and 2009), Everest ten times (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017 and 2018), K2 in 2004 (disputed!) and Gasherbrum I in 2005.
1971 Zhang Qing-Liang, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024 and K2 in 2025.
1973 Xabier Zubieta, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1999. He died in 2007 on Pic du Taillon in the Pyrenees, aged 33.
1973 Jeff Johnson, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1974 James Lancashire, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Everest in 2007.
1975 Kunwar Singh Rawat, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1978 Rinzin Dorje, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2009.
1978 John Edward Haskew, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1979 Rinzin Dorje Bodh, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1980 Vishveshwar Semwal, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1980 Darshan Tamang, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018 and Manaslu M in 2023.
1980 Volodymyr Petrov, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2024.
1982 Andor Luhovic, Serbian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004.
1982 Kazufumi Gomi, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2012, Cho Oyu in 2016 and Everest in 2017.
1983 Aleksei Korolev, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1985 Temba Tshering Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1986 Carlos Eduardo Santalena, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest four times (2011, 2016, 2018 and 2024), Manaslu RP in 2019, Lhotse twice (2021 and 2024) and Makalu in 2022.
1986 Dawa Gyalzen II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Everest five times (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2021).
1987 Robert (Rob) Gauntlett, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2006. He died in an avalanche in the Alps in 2009, aged 21.
1991 Isabella Aimee Gareh, British lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1996 Buddha Bahadur Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024 and Manaslu M in 2025.
2009 Nima Chhiring, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.

First ascents on this day

1848 Citlaltépetl (Pico de Orizaba, 5636 m) by an American party.
1960 Api (7132 m) by a Japanese party.
1969 Tukche Ri (6920 m) and Tukche Ri North (6848 m) by a Swiss party.

Gone on this day

1981 Eight Japanese climbers died on this day on Gongga Shan (7556 m) by falls. They were Yuji Fujiwara (35), Mitsuoh Ura (32), Masahiro Nakajima (35), Hiroshi Matsunaga (28), Hitoshi Odajima (31), Masaaki Shimada (28), Chuichi Onodera (29) and Shigeru Sasaki (31).
1982 Enric Font (37) and Pere Aymerich (30), Spanish Catalan climbers, who ascended Gasherbrum II together in 1980, died in an avalanche on Manaslu.
1989 Dimitar Ilijevski, Macedonian climber, who ascended Everest on this day, died on descent, aged 35.
1991 Gottfried (Friedl) Mutschlechner, South Tyrolean climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1981, Kangchenjunga in 1982 and Makalu in 1986, died on Manaslu, aged 41.
1993 Lobsang Tshering Bhutia, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest that day, died on descent, aged 41.
2012 Jafar Naseri, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2012, where he died on descent, aged 34.
2016 Lhakpa Ongyal (Lhakpa Wangel), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu three times (2009, 2011 and 2014), Manaslu RP in 2002, Everest twice (2004 and 2013) and Annapurna II in 2008 (first winter ascent!), died on Makalu, aged 49.