30 January

Born on this day

1933 Yukihiko Kato, Japanese climber, who made the first ascent of Gyachung Kang in 1964 and ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1940 Hiroku Kunieda, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1942 Erige de Thiersant, French climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2007.
1944 Milan Kriššák, Slovak climber, who ascended Makalu in 1976. He died in 1979 after a helicopter accident in the High Tatras, aged 35.
1952 Angelo Vedani, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1985, Cho Oyu in 1995 and Manaslu RP in 2007. He died in 2016, aged 64.
1953 Shigeru Suzuki (2), Japanese climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1983.
1960 Ursula Helfert, German lady free-climber.
1960 Iztok Tomazin, Slovenian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1987, Cho Oyu in 1988, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1993, Gasherbrum I in 1995 and Gasherbrum II in 2004.
1964 Harald Ortner, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1965 Jan Pflugradt, German climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1966 Lok Bahadur Thapa Magar, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1968 Gerhard Hörhager, Austrian free-climber.
1968 Zhang Gen-Shen, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1968 Van Jung Truong, Danish climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1970 Franz Macherhammer, Austrian climber, who ascended Everest in 2014.
1973 Pasang Nuru V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2008, 2010 and 2011).
1974 Atsushi Senda, Japanese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2003 and Shisha Pangma in 2006.
1975 Pasang Chhiri I (Ang Chhiri), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu three times (2004, 2006 and 2007) and Everest six times (2008, 2016, 2017, 2022 and twice in 2024).
1984 Adrian Ahritculesei, Romanian climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1987 Gantulga Bekh-Ochir, Mongolian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1988 Andrew Joseph Leslie, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1988 Bisesh Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1990 Alexander Childs, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1992 Sebastian Friedrich Graf, German climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023 and Makalu in 2025.
1994 Fabian Arens, German climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1996 Dorchi VIII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2023, 2024 and 2025) and Manaslu twice in 2025.
2002 Milan Rai, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.