24 June

Born on this day

1887 Marcel Kurz, Swiss Himalayan pioneer, who wrote the famous Chronique Himalayenne. He died in 1967, aged 80.
1947 Kim Young-Han, Korean climber, who participated in the first ascent of Ngozumpa Kang I (7916 m) in 1982.
1948 Goretta Casarotto, Italian lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1985.
1950 Ryszard Pawłowski, Polish climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1984, Annapurna I in 1991, Nanga Parbat in 1993, Everest five times (1994, 1995, 1999, 2012 and 2014), Lhotse in 1994, K2 in 1996, Gasherbrum I in 1997, Gasherbrum II three times (1997, 2003 and 2006), Cho Oyu twice (2000 and 2005), Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2001 and Manaslu RP in 2017.
1950 Jeanne Stawiecki, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2007, where she also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven summits.
1953 Gerhard Seidl, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1956 Masaaki Tomita, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1981 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1982.
1958 Silvio (Gnaro) Mondinelli, Italian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (1993 and 2011), Shisha Pangma Central-Peak twice (1996 and 2003), Cho Oyu twice (1997 and 2007), Everest three times (2001, 2010 and 2013), Gasherbrum II and I and Dhaulagiri I in 2001, Makalu in 2002, Kangchenjunga in 2003, K2 in 2004, Nanga Parbat in 2005, Shisha Pangma, Lhotse and Annapurna I in 2006 and Broad Peak in 2007.
1959 Mario Casella, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1989.
1959 Martin Frey, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1959 Bishnu Bhusal, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1961 Arne Heckele, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998. He died on Gasherbrum II in 2007, aged 46.
1964 Italo Fasciani, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1965 Oleg Naumov, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003 and Dhaulagiri I in 2005.
1965 Mattias Karlsson, Swedish climber, who ascended Everest in 2005 and Kangchenjunga in 2009.
1968 Vidar Femdal Røe, Norwegian climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1968 Temba II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011).
1968 Zhang Ji-Lei, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019 and Everest in 2021.
1969 Chhiring I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (twice in 2003 and 2004).
1969 Lama Babu II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2009, 2012 and 2018), Cho Oyu in 2009 and Manaslu RP in 2014. He died after his third Everest summit in 2018, aged 48.
1970 Lance Steven Fox, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1971 Nicole Guntern, Swiss lady climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998.
1971 Lhakpa Gelje, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007).
1971 Nawang, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1971 Ramón Rosell, Andorran climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 2004.
1972 Stefano Zavka, Italian climber, who ascended K2 in 2007 and died on descent, aged 35.
1973 Ang Gyalzen IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013) and Cho Oyu in 2013.
1973 Holger Franz Ludwig Birnbräuer, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013 and Everest in 2017.
1975 Philipp Kunz, German climber, who ascended Annapurna II in 2008 (first winter ascent!) and Kangchenjunga South-Peak (8476 m, first winter ascent!) in 2011.
1976 Daniele Nardi, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 2004, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2005, K2 in 2007 and Nanga Parbat and Broad Peak in 2008. He died in 2019 on Nanga Parbat, aged 42.
1977 John Brandon Chalk, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1978 Lhakpa Nuru XI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2021), Manaslu RP five times (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020), Annapurna I in 2016, Nanga Parbat in 2017 and Lhotse and K2 in 2018.
1984 Manindra Rai, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011.
1984 Joyce Azzam, Lebanese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1987 Charlotte Adrienne Austin, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1987 Sophie Sung-Bin Hilaire, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1988 Rafael Jaime Jaramillo, Mexican climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1989 Phur Temba III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1989 Asmaa Thani Al Thani, Qatari lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M and Dhaulagiri I in 2021, Kangchenjunga, Everest and K2 in 2022, Lhotse twice (2022 and 2024) and Annapurna I in 2023.
1992 Sange VII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1994 Fura Tshering, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023), Lhotse three times (2021, 2022 and 2024), Manaslu RP in 2021, K2 twice (2022 and 2023), Broad Peak in 2022, Manaslu M twice (2022 and 2023) and Kangchenjunga in 2024.
1996 Dawa Tenzing V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023).
1997 Janice Elizabeth Rot Cisternas, Chilean lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.

First ascents on this day

1928 Chearoco (6104 m) by an Austro-German party.
1964 Devistan II (6529 m) by an Indian party.
1979 Thalay Sagar (6904 m) by a British-American party.
1983 Gasherbrum II East (7758 m) by a Polish party.

Gone on this day

1986 Liliane and Maurice Barrard, French climbers, who ascended together Gasherbrum II in 1982, Nanga Parbat in 1984 and K2 one day before they died on descent, aged 37 and 44. They were the first married couple on top of K2. Maurice additionally ascended Gasherbrum I in 1980.
2017 Mariano Galván, Argentinean climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2011, Everest in 2012, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2013, Broad Peak in 2015 and Dhaulagiri I and Manaslu RP in 2016. He died while attempting the Mazeno ridge of Nanga Parbat, aged 37.
2017 Alberto Zerain, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Everest in 1993, Makalu in 1995, Lhotse in 2001, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2006, K2 in 2008, Kangchenjunga in 2009, Dhaulagiri I and Manaslu RP in 2016 and Annapurna I in 2017. He died during an attempt of the Mazeno ridge on Nanga Parbat, aged 55.