23 October

Born on this day

1914 Jakob Pargätzi, Swiss pioneer, who participated in the first ascents of Pathibara NE-Peak, Dzanye and Tangkongma in 1949. He died in the Alps on Jungfrau in 1952, aged 37.
1934 Josef Weissenberger, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1991.
1943 Daniel (Dan) Blake, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1952 Shiori Hashimoto, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1988.
1954 Stephen Greenholz, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1961 Manfred Lorenz, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu and Gasherbrum I in 1986.
1964 Kevin Jones, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1964 Stephen Marsh, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1967 John Martin Keagy, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1968 Mohammad Naderian, Iranian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2008.
1969 Bunsho Hattori (former Murata), Japanese climber, who ascended K2 in 1996.
1971 Carrie Gibson, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1972 Wu Jun, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1973 Chad Fleming Peele, American climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2017 and 2019) and Cho Oyu in 2019.
1973 Chad Fleming Peele, American climber, who ascended Everest twice (2024 and 2025).
1975 Kiichiro Yamaguchi, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1975 Scott Robert Cutlan, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2024, where he also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits.
1976 Andrew Wilkinson, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Everest in 2007.
1977 Phu Tashi II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest eight times (2004, 2007, twice in 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018 and 2022) and Cho Oyu in 2006.
1977 Vivekananthan Thushyanthan, Sri Lankan climber (also British), who ascended Manaslu M in 2022 and Everest in 2023.
1979 Daniel Clements, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1979 Anshuman Bhadauria, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1982 Jurii Solodukhin, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1984 Yuri Solodukhin, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1986 Lhakpa Wangchu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest sixteen times (twice in 2007, 2008, 2009, twice in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024), Manaslu RP six times (2008, 2009, 2010, 2017, 2018 and 2021), Lhotse seven times (2012, 2013, 2018, 2021, twice in 2024 and 2025), Cho Oyu twice (2019 and 2025), K2 three times (2021, 2022 and 2025), Kangchenjunga in 2022 and Makalu in 2025.
1988 Odd Tokle Sæbø, Norwegian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1988 Luo Jun-Yi, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1989 Bikram Karki, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2022 and Manaslu M in 2025.
1991 Bijaya Ghimere, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1992 Nihal Ashpak Bagwan, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1995 Christopher John Fisher, American climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1999 Da Chhiree, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2021 and 2022) and Manaslu M in 2025.
2003 Wang Yu-Ze, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.

First ascents on this day

1952 Chulu NW-Peak (6419 m) by a Japanese party.
1992 Menlungtse (7181 m) by a Slovenian party.
1996 Lunpo Gangri (7095 m) by a party with members from China and South Korea.

Gone on this day

1984 Jan Šimon, Czech climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I on this day and died on descent, aged 25.
1986 Pierre-Alain Steiner, Swiss climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1985, died by a fall on Cho Oyu, aged 26.
1994 Iordanka Dimitrova, Bulgarian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1991. She disappeared on Kangchenjunga, aged 41.
2006 Todd Richard Skinner, American free-climber, died by a fall in the Yosemite Valley, aged 47.
2010 Chuwang Nima (aka Chhewang Nima), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest eighteen times (1994 twice, 1996 twice, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and twice in 2010), Cho Oyu twice (2002 and 2003) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004, died in an avalanche on Baruntse, aged 43.