16 January

Born on this day

1937 Katsuhiko Oku, Japanese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999.
1945 Vaclav Fort, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1947 Wilhelm Brandmayr, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1948 Andrzej Sikorski, Polish climber, who participated in the first ascent of Broad Peak Central (8011 m) in 1975 and died on descent, aged 27.
1952 Joachim (Jochen) Labisch, German climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1986.
1957 Hiso Aria, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1958 Anatoli Bukreev, Kazakh climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1989 (including an ascent of Central-Peak and a full traverse of the four highest peaks), Dhaulagiri I twice (1991 and 1995), Everest four times (1991, 1995, 1996 and 1997), K2 in 1993, Makalu in 1994, Manaslu RP in 1996, Lhotse twice (1996 and 1997), Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1996 and Broad Peak Foresummit and Gasherbrum II in 1997. He died in an avalanche during a winter attempt on Annapurna I South face, aged 39.
1958 Marcelo Arbelaez, Colombian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999 and Everest in 2001.
1962 Serge Bonvin, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998 and Dhaulagiri I in 2005.
1963 Roland Huw Thomas, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1964 Aleksandr Abramov, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu three times (1999, 2007 and 2014) and Everest twelve times (2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023), Manaslu RP in 2017 and Manaslu M in 2025. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2005 and the Carstensz-version in 2008.
1964 Joseph P. (Joe) Yannuzzi, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1965 Dagmar Platzer, American lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1967 Dmitri Mouravev, Kazakh climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1995 and Everest in 1997.
1968 Marc Ernst, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1969 Israfil Ashurly, Azerbaijani climber, who ascended Everest in 2007, Kangchenjunga in 2011, Lhotse and Manaslu RP in 2019, Broad Peak in 2022, Makalu in 2023 and Nanga Parbat and Gasherbrum II in 2024. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2007.
1971 Ari Jonathan Peress, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1971 Pasang Tenzing III (Pasang Tenje/Tenji), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2005 and Manaslu RP in 2008.
1971 Lon Patrick Murphy, American climber, who ascended Makalu in 2022.
1973 Chen Hua, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1974 Shinichi Yajima, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1975 Alexandra Robl, Austrian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004 and Dhaulagiri I in 2009.
1976 Nicholas (Nick) Talbot, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2011 and Everest in 2016.
1978 Lee Hee-Sok, Korean climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2002.
1980 Michael Rudolph Gutwein II, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1983 Isaac William Selby, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2021 and K2 in 2022.
1985 Yun Pan, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016 and Everest in 2018.
1988 Kari Lynn Sudfeld, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1989 Nadia Lisa Khoso (nee Azad), Pakistani-British lady climber, who ascended Annapurna I, Everest and Lhotse in 2023 and Manaslu M in 2025.
1989 Feng Bin-Quan, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1990 Chen Cheng, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1995 Chhiring Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest four times (2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023), Lhotse in 2024 and Makalu and Manaslu M in 2025.
1998 Ngima Gyalzen, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1999 Pasang Tenje I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2018, 2019, 2022 and twice in 2023), Manaslu RP twice (2019 and 2020), Manaslu M three times (2022, 2023 and 2025), Annapurna I, Lhotse, Makalu and Nanga Parbat in 2023, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2024 and Kangchenjunga and K2 in 2025.
2003 Phursange, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.

Event on this day

2021 First winter ascent of K2 by 10 Nepalese climbers.

First ascent on this day

1960 O'Higgins (Patagonia, Chile, 2860 m) by a Chilean party.

Gone on this day

1992 Horst Bergmann, Austrian climber, who ascended Everest in 1978, died, aged 49.
2021 Sergi Mingote, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999, Everest twice (2001 and 2003), Broad Peak, K2 and Manaslu RP in 2018 and Lhotse, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II and Dhaulagiri I in 2019. He died by a fall on K2 during a winter attempt, aged 49.
2024 Ignacio (Iñaki) Aldaya, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1979 and Kumbhakarna (Jannu) in 1981, died on this day, aged 73.