11 July

Born on this day

1954 Fikret (Fiko) Karacic, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1955 Tadeusz Karolczak, Polish climber, who ascended Yalung Kang in 1984, Lhotse in 1986 and Cho Oyu in 1987.
1961 Andrew Evans, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 1997 and K2 in 2000.
1963 Jeffrey Michael Smith, British climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013 and Everest in 2017.
1965 Thomas Lämmle, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (1998 and 2003), Gasherbrum II twice (2005 and 2013), Manaslu RP in 2008, Shisha Pangma and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2013, Everest in 2016 and Makalu and Lhotse in 2018.
1965 Michael Davey, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003 and Everest in 2007.
1968 Jorge Egocheaga, Spanish Asturian climber, who ascended Everest in 2002, Gasherbrum I in 2003, Cho Oyu in 2004, Nanga Parbat twice (2005 and 2025), Shisha Pangma in 2005, Manaslu RP twice (2006 and 2021), Broad Peak in 2006, Dhaulagiri I in 2007, Gasherbrum II in 2008, Annapurna I (C1) in 2010, Makalu twice (2011 and 2023), Lhotse twice (2013 and 2024), Kangchenjunga in 2014, Manaslu M in 2023, K2 in 2024 and Annapurna I in 2025, where he finished the 14 8K Main-Peaks. He also finished the Kosciuszko- and Carstensz-versions of the Seven Summits in 2006.
1968 Lee Kil-Bong, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1969 Christian Cuq, Chilean climber, who ascended Everest in 2001 and Cho Oyu in 2006.
1970 Gabriel Picard, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1971 Kirill Muravyev, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1973 Rafael Alexander Avila, Colombian climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1974 Martin Nüss, German climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2005.
1975 Yuichi Seki, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1997.
1976 Ricardo Bergamini, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013 and Manaslu RP in 2017.
1976 Jan David Klint, Swedish climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1977 Fan Bo, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2018 and Everest in 2019.
1981 Adam Michael Clark, American climber, who ascedned Everest in 2019.
1982 Ram Kumar Shrestha, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1984 Neeraj Choudhary, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1985 Rahul Balu Yelange, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1986 Wang Yin-Long, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2015 and Everest twice (2016 and 2018).
1987 Philippe Ernest Harles, climber from Luxembourg, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1997 Sandip Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2022, Everest twice (2023 and 2024) and Lhotse and K2 in 2023.
1998 Yashi Jain, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2023.

First ascents on this day

1947 Kedarnath (6940 m) by a Swiss party.
1951 Mukut Parvat (7242 m) by a party from New Zealand.
1958 "Fluted Peak" (6137 m, near Karcha Parbat) by a British party.
1963 Kohe Ka Safed (6192 m) by a German party.
1968 Lunkhoye Maghreb (c. 6450 m) by a Polish-Italian party.
1970 "Marianne Zom" (6390 m) by an Italian party.
1971 Nanga Parbat Forepeak (7910 m) and NE-Peak (7510 m) by a Slovak party.
1977 "Kury Kangri" (c. 6650 m) by an Austrian party.
1979 Kunyang Chhish North (7108 m) by a Japanese party.
1984 Sang-e-Marmar (6990 m) by another Japanese party.
1996 Ultar Sar (7388 m) also by a Japanese party.
2011 Malam Ri (6585 m) by an Indo-Japanese party.

Gone on this day

2009 Go Mi-Sun (in Korea Mi-Young), Korean lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, Everest, Broad Peak and Shisha Pangma in 2007, Lhotse, K2 and Manaslu RP in 2008 and Makalu, Kangchenjunga, Dhaulagiri I and Nanga Parbat in 2009, died by a fall on descent of the latter, aged 41.