02 January

Born on this day

1909 Riccardo Cassin, Italian pioneer, who led the successful first ascent expedition to Gasherbrum IV in 1958. He died in 2009, aged 100.
1951 Robert Meyer, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008.
1952 Toshiaki Saito, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1956 Gerhard Schauenburg, German climber, who ascended Gurla Mandhata (aka Naimona'nyi, 7694 m) in 2004.
1958 Rauno (Ron) Hoglin, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest twice (2004 and 2007), Lhotse in 2008 and Broad Peak Foresummit in 2013.
1960 Andrei Karpenko, Moldovian climber , who ascended Everest in 2009 (first from his country!).
1960 Vitaly Khinenzon, Tajikian climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1961 Brent Okita, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1991.
1962 Mark Warham, British climber, who ascended Everest in 1997.
1962 Dmitry Ivanov, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1963 Pedro Tous, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1990 and Everest in 1992.
1963 Paul Samuel, British climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013.
1964 Lucian Bogdan, Romanian climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1964 Cliff Dargonne, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2003. He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2006.
1964 Dean McMaster, Australian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999.
1964 David (Dave) Pearce, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1965 Frank Meutzner, German climber, who ascended Makalu in 2000.
1965 Naoko Hirano, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1965 Julia Zhou, American lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019 and Everest in 2022.
1967 Dmitry Ivanov, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1968 Amy (Supy) Bullard, American lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999 and Everest in 2004.
1970 Marc Flos, Spanish Valencian climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1971 Lisete Florenzano, Brazilian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013.
1972 Jana Mijailović, Croatian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1972 Eduard Kubatov, Kyrgyz climber, who ascended Everest in 2021, Manaslu M in 2022, Lhotse and Makalu in 2024 and Annapurna I in 2025.
1973 Markus Walter, German climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1995, Cho Oyu in 1997, Manaslu M in 1999, Gasherbrum II in 2001 and Nanga Parbat in 2004.
1975 Alexandros Aravidis, Greek climber, who ascended Makalu in 2014.
1975 Bastiaan Jan Van Stam, Dutch climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1976 Heo Jae-Sung, Korean climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2000.
1979 Cang La, Tibetan lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002 and Everest in 2003.
1980 Ryan Anthony Castel, Australian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008.
1983 Svetlana Petrova, Russian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1987 Tundup Namgail, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1990 Karel Abraham, Czech climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1992 Sange IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2017 and 2019).
1993 Song Wen-Yi, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1996 Pasang (m), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended K2 and Manaslu M in 2023.
1999 Benjamin Joseph Gabriel Chan, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2018 and Broad Peak in 2019.
2001 Chandrakala Uttam Gavit, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.