27 March

Born on this day

1935 Konbu, Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest in 1960.
1952 Leonard Douglas (Len) Stanmore, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2006. A little later that year he also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits.
1953 Victoria (Vicky) Jack, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2004, where she also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits.
1954 Kenichi Nagaoka, Japanese climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1997.
1959 Jonathan (Jon) Tinker, British climber, who ascended Everest in 1993, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1994 and Cho Oyu in 1995.
1960 Alejandro (Alex) Serra, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1993.
1960 Stephen Sustad, American climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1983.
1961 Lhakpa Sonam IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1966 Susi Good, Swiss lady free-climber.
1966 Yaduram Sharma, Indian climber, wo ascended Everest in 2008.
1970 Jerry De Raad, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013.
1971 Geoffrey Stanford, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2002.
1973 Aleksei Balakin, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1973 Denver James Chapman, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1975 Stuart MacDonald, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1979 Robyn Lynn Faike, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1980 Tshering, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2013 and 2014).
1982 Ghizlane Aakar, Moroccan lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1982 Sunil Singh, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1983 Christopher James Dunn, American climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2019.
1986 Daniel James Cicioni Kolsky, Australian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1987 Landuk, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice in 2014.
1992 Muhammad Eid, Pakistani climber, who ascended K2 in 2022 and Nanga Parbat in 2023.
1993 Dachhetar, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2018, 2021 and 2022), Lhotse twice (2022 and 2024), Manaslu M twice (2022 and 2024), K2 in 2023 and Gasherbrum I in 2025.
1998 Lankaram Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
2001 Sumba Chhiring, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.

Gone on this day

1990 Nima Wangchu (Wangchu), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 1981 and Dhaulagiri I in 1982, died in an avalanche on Manaslu, aged 39.