28 February

Born on this day

1942 Roman (Romi) Robas, Slovenian climber, who ascended Kangbachen (subsidiary peak of Kangchenjunga, 7903 m) in 1974 and Cho Oyu in 1988.
1943 Bruno Friedrich, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1947 Bernd Arnold, German free-climber.
1950 Janusz Skorek, Polish climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1979.
1952 Christopher Burrows, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2007. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2009.
1957 Haruyuki Endo, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest 1983, Nanga Parbat in 1988, Gasherbrum I in 1989 and Gasherbrum II in 1990.
1957 Philippe Battu, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1958 Ginette Harrison, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1993, Cho Oyu in 1997, Kangchenjunga (first female ascent) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998 and Makalu in spring 1999. She also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits in 1995. She died in autumn 1999 in an avalanche on Dhaulagiri I, aged 41.
1958 James Edward (Jim) Haberl, Canadian climber, who ascended K2 in 1993. He died in an avalanche in Alaska in 1999, aged 41.
1961 Terry Keleher, Irish climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1962 Cho Kwang-Jae, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 1989.
1966 Antoine Cayrol, French adventurer, who ascended Everest in 1993 and Tirich Mir in 2001. He also travelled unsupported to the North Pole in 1996 and to the South Pole in the season 1998/1999.
1969 Alain Christian André Baissières, French climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014.
1970 Jefferson Dos Reis, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1978 Krzysztof Słomiński, Polish climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1980 Nga Tenji, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest ten times (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2018), Manaslu RP twice (2009 and 2015) and K2 in 2012.
1980 Pema Chhiring (aka Pema), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Annapurna I twice (2010 and 2015) and Dhaulagiri I in 2012. He died in 2015 on descent of Annapurna I, aged 35.
1983 Phunchok Giaccho, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011.
1983 Phu Dorchi II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2013, 2021 and 2022).
1983 Wang Wei, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1984 Ramesh Bahadur Thapa Magar, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest twice (2013 and 2016).
1991 Milad Keshavarzi, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1996 Pasang Bhote V, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest six times (2017, 2018, 2022, 2023 and twice in 2024) and Manaslu M in 2024.