27 October

Born on this day

1947 Tuula Nousiainen, Finnish lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998. She died in 2004, aged 57.
1954 Scott McIvor, British (Scottish) climber, who ascended Everest in 1993 and Gasherbrum II in 1998. He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2002.
1956 Ewald Eder, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1991.
1958 Todd Richard Skinner, American free-climber. He died in 2006 by a fall in the Yosemite Valley, aged 47.
1959 Mark Anthony Whetu, climber from New Zealand, a Maori native, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1987 (complete ski descent), Everest seven times (1991, 1994, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2013), Cho Oyu twice (1996 and 2004) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998.
1960 Lluís Rafòls, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Broad Peak Central (aka Zhongyang) in 1992 and Cho Oyu in 2007.
1961 Christian Bannwart, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1963 Dmitri Sergeev, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1963 Yves Lachaud, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1964 Angus Coleridge Ruddle, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1965 Moreno Moreni, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1993.
1967 Simone Moro, Italian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1996, Lhotse in 1997, Everest four times (2000, 2002, 2006 and 2010), Cho Oyu in 2002, Broad Peak in 2003, Shisha Pangma in winter 2005, Makalu in winter 2009, Gasherbrum II in winter 2011 and Nanga Parbat in winter 2016.
1967 Scott G. Kress, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1969 Günther Pixner, Italian (South Tyrolean) climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1970 Hamid Naseri, Iranian climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2002.
1970 Emiliano Boldi, Italian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1971 Pierre Schwinte, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1973 Kazusada Nakamura, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999, Lhotse in 2003 and Nanga Parbat in 2005.
1978 Greg James Johnson, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1980 Sebastien (Seb) Rougegre, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1981 Naoko Watanabe, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, Everest in 2013, Makalu twice (2014 and 2023), K2 three times (2018, 2023 and 2024), Annapurna I, Kangchenjunga and Manaslu RP in 2019, Dhaulagiri I in 2021, Lhotse, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum I in 2022, Manaslu M twice (2022 and 2024) and Shisha Pangma in 2024, where she finished the 14 8000er Main-Peaks.
1981 Wilmien (Minki) Van Der Merwe, South African lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1982 Vijay Agarwal, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1983 Pasang Tendi II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seventeen times (2004, 2005, 2006, twice in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, in 2024 twice and 2025), Manaslu RP twice (2014 and 2017), Lhotse twice (2018 and 2022) and Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2024).
1983 Pavel Tsvetov, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1984 Lobchong (aka Lobsang) I, Tibetan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu three times (2004, 2005 and 2009) and Everest eight times (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2017).
1985 Fionnlagh (Foo) Finlayson, British (Scottish) climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009 and Everest in 2010.
1985 Boris Langenstein, French climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat twice (2019 and 2025) and Gasherbrum II in 2021.
1986 Pasang Temba V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (twice in 2010 and in 2019).
1986 Ngang Pasang, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2010, 2011, 2016, 2017 and 2018) and Manaslu RP in 2017.
1987 Kilian Jornet, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Everest twice in 2017, both without supplementary oxygen (second one still not confirmed for sure, but very likely).
1989 Pranay Kashinath Bandbuche, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1994 Kumari Nutan, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1996 Ajay Sohal, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1997 Pu Zhi-An, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.

First ascents on this day

1983 Nemjung (7139 m) by a Japanese party.
1985 Himalchuli North (7371 m) by a Korean party.
2011 Panbari Himal II (6767 m) by a French party.