05 May

Born on this day

1944 Yuri Golodov, Kazakh climber, who ascended Everest in 1982.
1944 Minoru Otsuki, Japanese climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 1997 and Cho Oyu in 2002.
1944 Shoji Shimiju, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1945 Edward (Ned) Gillette, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1992.
1948 Juan María (Pitxi) Egillor, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1990, Everest in 1992 and Gasherbrum II in 1997.
1950 Boris Sedusov, Russian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1993, Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1996, Everest in 2000 and Lhotse in 2002. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2006.
1951 Theresia Koch, German lady climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 2001.
1954 Lee Yeong-Chel, Korean climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in winter 1988.
1955 Peter Mennel, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1955 Marc Nagel, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1958 Anton Perhaj, Slovenian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008.
1960 Rob Hess, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1994 and Broad Peak in 1995.
1962 Paul-Victor Amaudruz, Swiss climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1994.
1964 Satoru Yoneyama, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1998.
1964 Hervé Max Coron, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005 and Everest in 2009.
1964 Thomas (Tom) Merkel, German climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 2007.
1966 Muharrem Aydin Irmak, Turkish climber, who ascended Everest in 2012 and Annapurna I in 2015.
1967 Shigeyoshi Nagami, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2002.
1970 Fred Paul Alldredge, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997 and Everest in 2016.
1971 Martin Göggelmann, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (1996 and 2000) and Gasherbrum II in 2003.
1971 Lobsang Jangbu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996), the last three times without bottled oxygen, Cho Oyu in 1993 and Broad Peak in 1995. He died in autumn 1996 on Everest in an avalanche, aged 25.
1972 Ganesh Chandra Jena, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1973 Michael Phethran, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1974 Sean Sutton, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1974 Zhao Zhi-Hua, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest twice (2021 and 2024) and Cho Oyu in 2023.
1974 Dawa Sange I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2023, 2024 and 2025).
1975 Jeffrey C. Sradomski, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1975 Mao Hong-Tao, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1978 Merel Van Nistelrode, Dutch lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1979 Soner Büyükatalay, Turkish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2005 and Everest in 2006.
1980 Sanjay Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1982 Dechen Lhamo (1), Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1982 Jaroslav Bartoš, Czech climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 2010.
1982 Ryan T. Podolsky, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1984 Pravendra Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1985 Ngawang Tsering, Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest three times (2003, 2007 and 2008) and Cho Oyu in 2006.
1985 Yuan Fu-Dong, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest twice (2008 and 2020) and Cho Oyu in 2008.
1988 Sonam Stobdan, Indian climber, who ascended Makalu in 2025.
1989 George Hugh Robert (Geordie) Stewart, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2011, where he also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits.
1996 Caroline Hildebrandt Rinfeldt, Danish lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.

First ascents on this day

1970 Rani Ri (aka Lidanda Peak, 6693 m) by a Dutch party.
1972 Nampa (6729 m) by a Japanese party.

Gone on this day

1945 Michael Spender, British pioneer and surveyor, who was a member of the Everest expedition in 1935. He also surveyed and mapped the area North of K2 in 1937. He died, aged 38.
2013 Da Rita, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2012, died on Everest, aged 36.
2018 Boyan Petrov, Bulgarian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2009, Kangchenjunga, Broad Peak and K2 in 2014, Manaslu in 2015, Annapurna I, Makalu and Nanga Parbat in 2016 and Gasherbrum II and Dhaulagiri I in 2017. He went missing on this day on Shisha Pangma, aged 45.