14 January

Born on this day

1911 Robert Hicks Bates, American pioneer who achieved, together with Bradford Washburn, the first ascent of Mount Lucania in 1937 and was a member of the American expeditions to K2 in 1938 and 1953. He died in 2007, aged 96.
1939 Jörg Daum, German climber, who ascended Tirich Mir in 1976 and Cho Oyu in 1986.
1943 Egon Obojes, Austrian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1980 by a new route on the North side of the mountain.
1960 Günther Hofer, Italian (South Tyrolean) climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1961 Robert (Rob) Hall, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest five times (1990, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996), Lhotse and K2 in 1994, Cho Oyu twice (1994 and 1995) and Makalu in 1995. He finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in late 1990 and the Carstensz-version in 1994. He died on descent after his last Everest ascent in 1996, aged 35.
1962 Andreas Friedrich, German climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2012 and Everest in 2016.
1963 Giuseppe Pompili, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002, Everest in 2004, Broad Peak Foresummit in 2007 and K2 in 2014. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2006 and the Carstensz-version in 2008.
1963 Li Bin, Chinese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2010 and died on descent, aged 47.
1968 Veikka Gustafsson, Finnish climber, who ascended Everest three times (1993, 1997 and 2004), Dhaulagiri I twice (1993 and 1999), K2 in 1994, Lhotse and Makalu in 1995, Broad Peak Foresummit in 1997, Manaslu M in 1999, Shisha Pangma and Nanga Parbat in 2001, Cho Oyu and Annapurna I in 2005, Kangchenjunga in 2006, Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak in 2008 and Gasherbrum I in 2009, where he finished the 14 8000er Main-Peaks.
1968 Scott Robert Patch, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (2009 and 2013) and Everest twice (2011 and 2014).
1970 Raúl Martínez, Spanish Aragonese climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 2005.
1971 Hiroshi Kato (2), Japanese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999.
1972 Oleg Afanassiev, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2000 and Manaslu RP in 2017.
1972 László Maku, Hungarian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1973 Juan Ángel (Boli) Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2003 and Everest in 2004.
1974 Grant Landon Rawlinson, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1974 Bal Bahadur Lopchan II, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1974 Liu Qun-Ying, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1979 Frank Günther Seidel, German climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1983 Nikol Algerdos Kovalchuk, Russian born American lady climber, who ascended Everest, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I, K2, Manaslu, Dhaulagiri I and Cho Oyu in 2023 and Annapurna I, Makalu, Lhotse, Broad Peak and Shisha Pangma in 2024.
1989 Nikolai Zaiakin, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1991 Pasang Tshering V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1994 Pemba Gyaltsen, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024) and Lhotse in 2022.
1995 Pablo Cesar Jiminez Perez, Mexican climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1995 Rakesh Rana Magar, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.

Event on this day

2005 First (calendar) winter ascent of Shisha Pangma by Simone Moro (Italy) and Piotr Morawski (Poland).

First ascent on this day

1897 Aconcagua (6964 m) by the Swiss climber Matthias Zurbriggen.