Almanac

08 February



Born on this day

1951 Yoshitomi Ohkura, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri II in 1979, Cho Oyu four times (1987, 2002, 2003 and 2007), Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004, Manaslu RP in 2006 and Everest in 2007.
1953 Sylvia Brigitte Studer, Austrian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1955 Yukihiro Yanagisawa, Japanese climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 1981 and K2 in 1982, where he died by a fall on descent, aged 27.
1957 Viktor Pastukh, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga South-, Central- and Main-Peaks in 1989 and Manaslu RP in 1991. He died in an avalanche on Shisha Pangma in 1996, aged 39.
1958 Tetsuya Toyama, Japanese climber, who ascended Masherbrum and Broad Peak in 1985.
1958 Raymond Dorr, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1962 Nicholas John White, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1962 Björn Lindwall, Swedish climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1965 Wangchuk, Indian Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (1992 and 2006) and Kangchenjunga in 2000.
1966 Sheena West, British lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2018 and Everest in 2019.
1967 Micha Yaniv, Israeli climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1968 Minoru Doya, Japanese climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1999 and Cho Oyu in 2004.
1968 Roman Koval, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1971 Abhishek Kankan, Indian climber, who ascended Kamet in 2003 and Everest in 2004.
1971 Stephane Briol, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013.
1974 Leonardo Silverio Vera, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1979 Samden Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1982 Ang Kami VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1982 He Zhinan, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1983 Manoi Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1988 Maksim Cherkasov, Kyrgyz climber, who ascended Makalu in 2016 and Broad Peak in 2019.
1989 Furba, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1989 Keshav Prasad (Sobit) Gauchan, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1992 Chinjung Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011, Everest twice (2016 and 2018) and Makalu twice (2022 and 2023) and Manaslu M in 2023.
1992 Murad Mohamed Yusuf Abdulsayed, Bahrainian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2020 and Everest in 2021.
1992 Anurag Reddy Nallavelli, Indian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2022.
1993 Sanjay Singh, Indian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2017.
1995 Tejan Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2022, Annapurna I, Makalu, Kangchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak, K2, Manaslu M, Dhaulagiri I and Cho Oyu in 2023 and Shisha Pangma in 2024, where he finished the 14 8K Main-Peaks.
1997 Dawa (d), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.

Gone on this day

2021 Carlalberto (Cala) Cimenti, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, Manaslu RP in 2011, Dhaulagiri I in 2017 and Nanga Parbat in 2019, died, aged 45.