18 October

Born on this day

1914 Raymond Lambert, Swiss pioneer, who was the leader of the Swiss Mount Everest expedition in 1952. He died in 1997, aged 82.
1943 Hiroshi Hanazaki, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1946 Hiroshi Isoda, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2008.
1947 Tony A. Hampson-Tindale, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2010. Later that year he also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits.
1950 Masaaki Fukushima, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1980 and Lhotse in 1986.
1950 Bruce Manning, British climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2007.
1952 Patrick Morrow, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 1982. He also finished the Kosciuszko- and the Carstensz-versions of the Seven Summits in 1986.
1955 Aldo Garioni, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1957 Craig Alan John, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (1995 and 2000) and Everest twice (1998 and 2018).
1958 Stacy Allison, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1988.
1960 Jin Fei-Biao, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005, Everest in 2006 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2008.
1962 Andreas Bucher, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004 and Broad Peak in 2007.
1963 Wang Yong-Feng, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest three times (1993, 2007 and 2008) and Cho Oyu in 2006. He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 1999.
1966 Salvador Bayarri, Spanish Valencian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2001.
1968 Yang Chun-Feng, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest twice (2007 and 2009), Cho Oyu in 2008, Manaslu RP in 2009, Dhaulagiri I in 2010, Kangchenjunga, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2011, Annapurna I (disputed), Lhotse and K2 in 2012 and Makalu in 2013. He was murdered by terrorists in BC of Nanga Parbat in 2013, aged 44.
1968 Laval St. Germain, Canadian climber, who asended Everest in 2010.
1970 Fernando (Ferrán) Latorre, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1992, Annapurna I in 1999, Shisha Pangma in 2005, Broad Peak in 2007, Dhaulagiri I, Gasherbrum IV NE-Peak and Manaslu RP in 2008, Kangchenjunga in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2012, Lhotse and Cho Oyu in 2013, K2 in 2014, Gasherbrum I in 2015, Makalu and Nanga Parbat in 2016 and Everest in 2017.
1970 Saurabh Singh Shekhawat, Indian climber, who ascended Everest three times (2001, 2003 and 2005).
1970 Ronnie van den Broek, Dutch climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Everest in 2007.
1970 Ke Chen-Ben, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1971 Mario Borges Simoes, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1972 Andrea Moore, British lady climber, living in New Zealand, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1974 Nima Dorje IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2004, 2005 and 2007).
1974 Javier Zabalo, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1988 Nadezhda Ermakova, Russian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1990 Rob (Ruida) Su, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1991 Ravi Thakur, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1996 Diki Lhamu Lama, Nepalese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.

First ascents on this day

1981 Dorje Lhakpa (6966 m) by a Japanese-Nepalese party.
2003 Kyashar (6770 m) by a party with members from Switzerland, Austria and Great Britain.
2006 Merra (6334 m) by a Danish party.

Gone on this day

1969 Phu Dorje I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 1965, died on Everest, aged 43.
1993 Masanori Sato, Japanese climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1990, Broad Peak in 1991, Namcha Barwa in 1992 and Gasherbrum II in summer 1993. He died after the first ascent of Gimmigela Chuli II (7007 m) nine days earlier, attempting the first ascent of Gimmigela Chuli I (7350 m). He fell into a hidden crevasse and died immediately, aged 30.
2011 Park Young-Seok, Korean climber, who ascended Everest three times (1993, 2006 and 2009), Cho Oyu twice (1994 and 1997), Annapurna I (?) in 1996, Dhaulagiri I (MP?), Gasherbrum I and II in 1997, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak twice (1998 and 1999), Nanga Parbat and Manaslu RP in 1998, Kangchenjunga in 1999, Makalu, Broad Peak and Shisha Pangma in 2000 and Lhotse and K2 in 2001, where he finished the 14 8000ers (LT 8). He finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits in 2002. He also skied to the South Pole in 2004 and to the North Pole in 2005. He died on the South Face of Annapurna I in 2011, aged 47.
2011 Kang Ki-Seok, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2009, died on Annapurna I South Face, aged 33.
2011 Shin Dong-Min, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2009, died on Annapurna I South Face, aged 37.