28 December

Born on this day

1924 Norman D. Hardie, pioneer from New Zealand, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1955. He died in 2017, aged 92.
1939 Yoshikazu Nezu, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1991, Dhaulagiri I in 1994 and Gasherbrum II in summer 1998. He died later that year, aged 58.
1944 Ivan Exnar, Swiss climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1979.
1948 Ko Sang-Don, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 1977. He was the first Korean, who ascended any 8000er. He died on Denali in 1979, aged 30.
1949 Kyoichi Yoshida, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013.
1950 Markus Prechtl, German climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1986.
1954 John Edwin Baker, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1960 Jesús Claudio Cubillas, Spanish Asturian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2003.
1961 Mohandas Nagapan, Malaysian climber, who ascended Everest in 1997.
1964 Troy Aupperle, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2009, where he also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits.
1966 Michael Füchsle, German free-climber.
1967 Kurt Josef Kirchgatterer, Austrian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2013.
1970 Moriaki Matsudaira, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1972 Cristian Corazza, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1972 Jarosław C. Hawrylewicz, Polish (also Canadian) climber, who ascended Everest in 2008. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2009.
1972 Fergal Savage, Irish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2011.
1976 Tanja Claudia Kober, German lady climber, who ascendced Manaslu RP in 2017 and Cho Oyu in 2019.
1977 Małgorzata (Gosia) Borchardt, American lady climber of Polish origin, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1977 Jamling Bhote I, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest eight times (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2019), Cho Oyu three times (2006, 2007 and 2014), K2 twice (2012 and 2014) and Manaslu RP twice (2018 and 2021).
1980 Peter Andrew Lowry, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1982 Carla Patricia Pérez, Ecuadorian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2012, Cho Oyu in 2014, Everest three times (2016, 2019 and 2024), K2 in 2019, Makalu in 2022 and Cho Oyu in 2024.
1982 Chandraveer Singh Yadav, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1982 Xu Min, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1984 Temba VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2018, 2021, 2022 and 2024), K2 in 2022 and Manaslu M in 2024.
1985 Anca Hortensia Racatean, Romanian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2022 and Everest in 2023.
1988 He Jing, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (2016 and 2023), Manaslu RP in 2017, Makalu in 2018, Annapurna I in 2019, Dhaulagiri I in 2021, Everest, Lhotse, K2 and Broad Peak in 2022, Kangchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2023, Shisha Pangma in 2024 and Manaslu M in 2025, where she finished the 14 8K Main-Peaks without bottled oxygen.
1993 Megha Parmar, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest twice (2018 and 2019).
1996 Soham Abhay Saigaonkar, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1999 Mingma Dorchi II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2019 and twice in 2021), Manaslu RP three times (2019, 2020 and 2021), K2 three times (2021, 2023 and 2024), Manaslu M twice (2022 and 2024), Lhotse twice in 2023, Dhaulagiri I in 2023 and Makalu in 2024.
2000 Pemba Tashi/Tasi, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu in 2019, Everest five times (2021, 2023, in 2024 twice and 2025), Manaslu M twice (2022 and 2024) and Lhotse in 2024.

Gone on this day

1982 Yasuo Kato, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest three times (1973, 1980 and 1982), Nanda Devi in 1976 and Manaslu (?) in 1981. He disappeared after his last ascent of Everest, aged 33. His Japanese companion, Toshiaki Kobayashi (34), who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1978, disappeared on Everest as well.