29 December

Born on this day

1938 Tomaž (Mišo) Jamnik, Slovenian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1986.
1942 Jürgen Spescha, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995 and Gasherbrum II in 2000.
1947 Haruichi Kawamura, Japanese climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1980, K2 in 1982 and Everest in 1983. He was the second climber after Reinhold Messner, who ascended the three highest mountains of the world and he managed it without bottled oxygen as well.
1953 Peter Sprenger, Swiss climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1956 Andrei Lushnikov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 1999.
1964 Leah Maree Jay, Australian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1965 Caspar Bernardus Maria (Cas) Van De Gevel, Dutch climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998, K2 in 2008 and Cho Oyu in 2016.
1967 Sumiyo Tsuzuki, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (1992 and 1996) and Everest in 1998.
1969 Jens Christian Trolle Nielsen, Danish climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1970 Edmund Philip Wardle, British climber, who ascended Everest three times (2007, 2009 and 2018).
1972 Stuart Christopher Peacock, British climber, who ascended Everest four times (2002, 2006, 2010 and 2022), Broad Peak Foresummit in 2004, Cho Oyu in 2006 and Manaslu M in 2023.
1972 Kyoko Hayashi, Japanese lady climber, who ascended K2 in 2018.
1974 Ignacio (Iñaki) Álvarez, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004.
1974 Joseph Michael (Joe) Brus, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1974 Raman Nair Hachoodan, Malaysian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1974 Armin Pircher, German climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1975 Maksim Bogatyrev, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1976 Vasiliki (Vanessa) Archontidou, Greek lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1981 Javier Pérez Olagaray, Mexican climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1986 Joshua Rosendo Jarrin, Ecuadorian climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1987 Pemba Tsering (Bianba Tseren), Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1987 Mostafa Ehsanpour, Iranian climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2024.
1988 Wesley Thomas Warne, American climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1989 Robert Mortell, Irish climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1994 Li Chen (Blake), Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1996 Nima T., Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.

Gone on this day

1994 Bogusław Probulski, Polish climber, who ascended Annapurna I Central-Peak in 1981, died in the High Tatras, aged 41.