16 December

Born on this day

1919 Andreas Loferer, German climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 1981. He died in 1995, aged 75.
1942 Minako Nakajima, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2006.
1949 Jaromir Stejskal, Slovak climber of Czech origin, who ascended Lhotse Shar and Dhaulagiri I in 1984 and Cho Oyu in 1985.
1955 Adolf Metzger, German climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1988 and Cho Oyu in 1997.
1956 Daniel (Dan) Langmade, American climber, who ascended Himalchuli in 1984.
1957 Michele Capelli, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1989.
1957 Nikola Kekus, British climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1994, Cho Oyu in 1996 and Everest in 1997.
1958 Peggy Luce, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1988.
1960 Gennadi Kopeika, Ukrainian climber, who ascended K2 in 1992.
1961 Bobbi Gale Bensman, American lady free-climber .
1961 Maxime Edgard Chaya, Lebanese (also Canadian) climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003 and Everest in 2006, where he also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits.
1962 Peter Bayer, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1966 Héctor Ponce de León, Mexican climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 1992, Cho Oyu in 1995, Everest three times (1996, 2002 and 2004) and Gasherbrum II in 1999.
1967 Miyuki Yamamoto, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Everest, Lhotse and Manaslu RP in 2019.
1968 Luis Stitzinger, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000, Gasherbrum II twice in 2006, Nanga Parbat in 2008, Dhaulagiri I in 2009, Broad Peak in 2011, Shisha Pangma in 2013, Manaslu RP in 2017, Gasherbrum I in 2018, Everest twice (2019 and 2022) and Kangchenjunga in 2023, where he died on descent, aged 54.
1969 Graciliano Ladrón de Guevara, Spanish Valencian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995.
1970 Jochen Michael Greiner, German climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1971 Malcolm Myles (Mal) Haskins, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Lhotse in 2008 and Manaslu RP in 2011.
1972 Fergus J. White, Irish climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1976 David R. (Dave) Ohlson, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1977 Neal Mueller, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2005. Later that year he also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits.
1977 Catherine Neumann, Canadian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1979 Peter Samson Hamel, American climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1980 Andrei Kiyko, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Himalchuli in 2007.
1980 Min Bahadur Rana, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1980 Lu Jian, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1980 Nikolai Radutnyi, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1982 Amit Aukta, Indian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2009.
1982 Pyae Phyo Aung, climber from Myanmar, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1983 Zhang Yang, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018 and Everest in 2019.
1984 Sun Jia-Kuan, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1984 Simone Molter, German lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1986 Mateusz Henryk Waligora, Polish climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1989 Ash Bahadur Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1992 Fatima Deryan, Lebanese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1998 Ang Sumba, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2018, in 2021 twice and 2023) and Lhotse in 2024.
2001 Tenjin Nurbu Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.

Gone on this day

2000 Witold Paryski, Polish pioneer, who made several first ascents in the Andes and was a well-known Andes-researcher, died, aged 91.
2000 Charles Marshall (Chuck) Pratt, American free-climber, died on this day, aged 61.