09 December

Born on this day

1941 Peter Wörgötter, Austrian climber, who ascended Tirich Mir in 1975, Lhotse in 1977, Manaslu M in 1981, Shisha Pangma in 1985, Broad Peak in 1986 and Cho Oyu in 1987.
1945 Randall L. Peeters, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001 and Everest in 2002. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2004 and the Carstensz-version in 2005.
1948 Liliane Barrard, French lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1982, Nanga Parbat in 1984 and K2 in 1986, where she died on descent, aged 37.
1948 Vladimir Lopatnikov, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1993.
1948 Koichi Ohyama, Japanese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2006, Everest twice (2007 and 2012), Cho Oyu in 2009 and Manaslu RP in 2011. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2007.
1949 Aleksei Krasnokutsky, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 1990.
1951 Olivier Pasche, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998, Gasherbrum II in 2000 and Cho Oyu in 2001.
1961 François J. Solignac, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016.
1962 Christian Eiterer, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004 and Everest in 2005.
1964 David Pierce Jones, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1965 Katsuhito Fujikawa, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2005 and Shisha Pangma in 2006.
1965 Javier Oliver, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1966 Hardeep Singh Rehsi, Kenyan climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014.
1969 Donald A. (Don) Bowie, Canadian climber, who ascended K2 in 2007, Gasherbrum I in 2010, Cho Oyu in 2011 and Annapurna I and Gasherbrum II in 2019.
1970 Serge Massad, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1972 Oleg Polyakov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1973 Renata Chlumska, Swedish lady climber of Czech origin, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1997 and Everest in 1999. She also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2014.
1973 Christopher Stephen (Chris) Szymiec, Canadian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2010 and Everest twice (2011 and 2012).
1973 Xu Hong-Bing, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1975 Fation Plaku, Albanian climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1980 Tanka Nath Sharma, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1981 Lee Li Hui, Singaporean lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007 and Everest in 2009.
1981 Blake Michael Penson, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1983 John Richard Ward, Irish climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.