18 December

Born on this day

1936 Mario Curnis, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 2002.
1937 Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Polish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II and III in 1975.
1939 Haruyuki Sawada, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1957 Peter Stadler, Swiss climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1989 and Cho Oyu in 1993.
1961 Lene Gammelgaard, Danish lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1996.
1961 Diego Fregona, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1961 Erich Resch, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995. He disappeared on Makalu in 2001, aged 39.
1962 Bousnaid Bousadjar, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1963 Mark Little, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1964 Toshiya Nakajima, Japanese climber, who asended Dhaulagiri I in 1991 and Everest in 1998.
1965 Reinhold (Reini) Scherer, Austrian free-climber.
1966 Manuel Morales, Spanish Andalusian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1990 and Cho Oyu in 1993.
1967 Martin Mead, British climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1968 Juan José (Juanjo) Buendia, Spanish Castilian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000 and Everest in 2006.
1969 Suzanne (Suze) Kelly, lady climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest twice (2012 and 2017) and Lhotse in 2013.
1969 Gregory Boyd (Greg) Penner, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu and Everest in 2018.
1974 Dániel Barna, Hungarian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2009.
1975 Bogusław Arkadiusz Magrel, Polish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2005, Manaslu RP in 2017 and Everest in 2021.
1975 Yi Liu, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1981 Derek John Mahon, Irish climber, who ascended Everest in 2014.
1981 Robert Paul Oleksy Ocampo, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1983 Melissa Sue Arnot, American lady climber, who ascended Everest six times (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2016).
1983 Jakub (Kuba) Vaněk, Czech climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011. He went missing on Baruntse in 2013, aged 29.
1986 Adam M. Woś, Polish climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1993 Mathis François Dumas, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1999 Krishna Rao Vooyaka, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.

First ascents on this day

1952 San Valentin (4058 m) by an Argentinean party.
1966 Vinson Massif (4892 m) by an American party.