31 July

Born on this day

1948 Mathieu van Rijswick, Dutch climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 1977.
1951 Akira Kumegawa, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2001.
1954 Padma Bahadur Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 1988.
1959 Andrej Terčelj, Slovenian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2004.
1959 Daniel Anker, Swiss climber, who ascended Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu, 7711 m) in 1984.
1960 Andrei Volkov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 1992, Nanga Parbat in 1997 and Cho Oyu in 2002.
1960 Luis Carlos Garranzo, Spanish Murcian climber, who ascended Everest in 2006 and Lhotse in 2019.
1960 Pasang (d), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1961 Tetsuaki Yoshimura, Japanese climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1991.
1965 Fermin Peñarroya, Spanish Valencian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1966 Oleg Paliy, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1970 Kul Bahadur Magar, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2009, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019).
1971 Juan Carlos Alonso, Spanish Galician climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2006.
1971 Chhong Karma II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2017 and 2019) and Manaslu in 2018.
1974 Mark Delstanche, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009 and Everest in 2010.
1976 Vladislav Lachkarev, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2014.
1978 Oh Young-Hoon, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1979 Kou Jun, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2019.
1982 John Ryan Beede, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1982 Ilina Arsova, Macedonian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1986 Rozi Ali, Pakistani climber, who ascended K2 in 2014.
1988 Karma Gyalgen (aka Karma Gyalzen), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2018).
1997 Anuja Anand Vaidya, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.

First ascents on this day

1950 Yerupajá (6617 m) by an American party.
1954 K2 (8611 m) by an Italian party.
1956 Muztag Ata (7509 m) by a Sino-Sovjet party.
1984 Karun Kuh (6977 m) by an Austrian party.
2013 Saser Kangri I Southwest ("Plateau Peak", 7310 m) by an Indian party.

Gone on this day

1942 Francis Younghusband, British officer and researcher. He was the first European to cross the Karakorum. He died on this day, aged 79.
2012 Zuzana Hofmannová, Czech lady climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004, Manaslu in 2006, Cho Oyu in 2009 and Broad Peak in 2012, where she died on descent, aged 53.