03 October

Born on this day

1943 Tadaki Kusonoki, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2008 and Everest in 2013.
1944 Ulrich Blasczyk, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995.
1945 Seiji Shimizu, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1978.
1949 Eric Loizeau, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1960 Lhakpa Nuru XI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (2003 and 2004) and Everest three times (2008, 2009 and 2010).
1961 Rebecca Stephens, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1993. She also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 1994 and the Kosciuszko-version in 1996.
1961 Marina Ershova, Russian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2002.
1962 Philippe Steulet, Swiss free-climber.
1962 Javier Dumal, Spanish Aragonese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1962 Andrei Ivanov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1962 Andreas (Res) Leibundgut, Swiss climber, who ascended Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu, 7711 m) in 1984.
1962 Thomas Ash (Tom) Claytor, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1963 Mark Wynton Woodward, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest ten times (2004, 2005, 2006, twice in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2019) and Manaslu three times (2010, 2012 and 2014).
1967 Gomba, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007 exactly on his 40th birthday.
1967 Mingma Tenzing III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2007, 2012, 2013 and 2018) and Manaslu RP in 2018.
1968 Brian Laursen, Australian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999, Cho Oyu in 2000, Everest in 2001 and Manaslu M in 2002.
1968 Kim Toivo Nyström, Finnish climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1969 Rainer Wolfgang Göschl, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002 and Gasherbrum II in 2003.
1969 Roberto (Gorri) Rojo, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2006, Nanga Parbat in 2007, Makalu in 2008, Cho Oyu in 2009 and Gasherbrum II in 2010.
1969 Phuru Gyalzen, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2003 and Manaslu RP in 2011.
1970 Pemba Rinji II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007).
1972 Gerfried Göschl, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002, Gasherbrum II in 2003 (both accompanied by his brother), Shisha Pangma and Everest (without bottled oxygen) in 2005, Broad Peak in 2007, Nanga Parbat in 2009 and Gasherbrum I in 2011. He died during a winter attempt of Gasherbrum I in 2012, aged 39.
1973 Santiago Sagaste, Spanish Aragonese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2003 and Shisha Pangma in 2004. He died on Dhaulagiri I in 2007, aged 33.
1973 Eike Mrosek, German climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1973 Phur Gyalzen (a), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998 and Cho Oyu in 2003.
1976 George Justin Ionescu, Romanian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014, Lhotse in 2019 and Makalu and Manaslu M in 2023.
1977 Aleksander Tertychnyy, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1977 Ang Gelu IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1979 Hideki Nagata, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1980 Takeshi Onodera, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013.
1981 Kaji Man Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1985 Cranford Cortes Stoudemire, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1986 Ang Kami (d), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1993 Lakpa VII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Annapurna I and Cho Oyu in 2019, Everest twice (2021 and 2024) and Lhotse twice (2022 and 2024).
1995 Daniil Kireev, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
2003 Nurbu Jangbu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.

First ascents on this day

1952 Gangotri I (6672 m) by a British party.
1961 Lion Peak (6126 or 6050 m) by a British ladies party; Josephine Scarr and Barbara Spark were successful, accompanied by two porters.
1980 Annapurna I Central-Peak (8013 m) by a German party.
1982 Changtse (7543 m) by a Dutch climber without permit.
1992 Himlung (7126 m) by a Japanese party.
2017 Nangpai Gosum II (7321 m) by a German party.

Gone on this day

1979 Hannelore Schmatz, German lady climber, who ascended Tirich Mir in 1975 and Everest in 1979, where she died on descent, aged 39.
1979 Raymond Edward (Ray) Genet, American climber, who ascended Everest the day before, died on descent, aged 48.
1989 Francisco Salgado, Antonio Luis Galea, Pablo de Miguel and José de Miguel, Spanish Extremaduran climbers, died in an avalanche on Pumo Ri (7165 m).
2005 Stanislav (Stas) Krylov, Russian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1995, Cho Oyu in 1997 and Everest in 2001, died on Shisha Pangma, aged 44.
2009 Franc Oderlap, Slovenian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999 and Everest in 2000. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2006. He died after ice serac head injuries on Manaslu, aged 50.
2010 Walter Nones, Italian (South Tyrolean) climber, who ascended K2 in 2004, died by a fall on Cho Oyu, aged 39.