15 October

Born on this day

1937 Clifton Harlan Wells Maloney, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009 and died on descent, aged 71.
1943 Ringqing Pingcuo, Tibetan climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1981, Cho Oyu in 1985 and Everest in 1988.
1944 Toivo Sarmet, Estonian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1950 Tetsuo Matsuzawa, Japanese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1990.
1951 Nicholas (Nick) Banks, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest in 1979.
1951 Giacomo Scaccabarozzi, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1953 Karel Jakeš, Slovak climber of Czech origin, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1984. He died in an avalanche in the High Tatras in 2002, aged 49.
1957 Zdravko Petkov, Bulgarian climber, who ascended Makalu in 1998.
1957 Pavel Matoušek, Czech climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004, Manaslu in 2006 and Cho Oyu in 2009.
1957 Alexios Passalidis, Greek climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1960 Daniel (Dan) Mazur, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1991, K2 twice (1993 and 2018), Gasherbrum I in 1994, Makalu in 1995, Lhotse in 1996, Cho Oyu five times (2000, 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2014), Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2001 and Manaslu RP in 2015.
1960 Steve Reneker, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1995.
1961 Rudolf Praschl-Bichler, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1963 Vladimir Prisyazhny, Kazakh climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1991.
1963 Dan Carroll, British climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 1996 and Everest in 2001.
1963 Jean-Yves Invernizzi, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1964 Olaf Rieck, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999, Gasherbrum II in 2001 and Gasherbrum I in 2019.
1964 Rafel López, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 1987 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1993.
1965 So Yang-Soo, Korean climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2005 and Lhotse in 2008.
1966 Lila Bahadur Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak twice (1995 and 2013), Cho Oyu twice (1997 and 2013), Everest four times (2004, 2006, 2014 and 2017) and Makalu in 2008.
1966 Park Nam-Soo, Korean climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2013, where he died on descent, aged 46.
1966 Willi Andreas Czymoch, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016.
1967 Peter Kowalzik, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992 and Gasherbrum II in 1993. He died on Everest in 1997, aged 29.
1968 Andrew Tyson, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1971 Agnaldo Jose Gomes, Brazilian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013.
1974 Hakon Kandola, Norwegian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1978 Marieta Radoslavova Georgieva, Bulgarian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1979 Eric Margueritte, Polish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1997. With 17 years and 278 days young, he probably is the youngest climber, who ascended this mountain.
1981 Xu Jing-Mei, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1982 Adam Mallory, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1984 Fredrik Bøe, Norwegian climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1988 Chirag Chatterjee, Indian climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2023.
1990 Dafuri, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024).
1991 Phubthile (Phurbadhile, Phurba Thile), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2019, 2021, 2022 and 2024), Manaslu RP in 2019, Nanga Parbat in 2023 and Manaslu M in 2024.
1992 Chhiring Tendi, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2021, 2022 and 2023) and Manaslu M in 2024.
1992 Mikhail Vorobiev, Swiss climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1993 Prem Magar, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest and Manaslu RP in 2019 and Manaslu M in 2024.
2003 Nima Temba II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.

First ascents on this day

1911 Coropuna (6425 m) by an American party (first non-pre-Columbian ascent).
1964 Annapurna Dakshin (7219 m) by a Japanese party.
1972 Dhaulagiri VI North-Peak (aka "Junction Peak", 7133 m) by another Japanese party.
1980 Annapurna III East-Peak (c. 7420 m) by a Swiss party.
2003 Soribun (6328 m) by an American party.
2017 Kyungka Ri (6599 m) by a Korean-Nepalese party.

Gone on this day

1981 Jean-Jacques Ricouard, French climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga on this day and died by a fall on descent, aged 28.
1990 Joan Martínez, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1987 and Shisha Pangma in 1990, where he died on descent, aged 33.
2009 Roberto (Roby) Piantoni, Italian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2003, Broad Peak Foresummit in 2005, Everest in 2006 and Gasherbrum I in 2008, died by a fall on Shisha Pangma, aged 32.