01 March

Born on this day

1941 Shoko Ohta, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002 and Everest in 2004, where she died on descent, aged 63.
1941 Gianbattista Scanabessi, Italian climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1981 and Gasherbrum II in 1985.
1942 Peter Weber, Swiss climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 1981.
1943 Dierk Maas, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1948 Alfred (Fredl) Beetschen, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1991.
1951 Masato Sasaki, Japanese climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1988.
1954 Luis Vandellos, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 1987.
1957 Peter Athans, American climber, who ascended Everest seven times (1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2002), Cho Oyu in 1995 and Nuptse in 1999.
1957 Yevgeni Maiorov, Russian climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2002.
1959 Juan Carlos García, Spanish Murcian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002 and Broad Peak in 2007.
1960 Todd Burleson, American climber, who ascended Everest twice (1992 and 1994). He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 1994 and the Kosciuszko-version in 2000.
1960 Timothy W. Warren, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1960 Herbert Lüthi, Swiss climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013.
1962 Kami Tenzing, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (1995 and 1997) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak also twice (1996 and 1999).
1962 Shao An-Hong, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019 and Everest in 2023.
1963 Radek Myška, Czech climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2005.
1964 Andrei Tselishchev, Kazakh climber, who ascended Everest in 1990 and Dhaulagiri I in 1991.
1964 Joachim Reinhold Alle, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016.
1965 Masayuki Matsubara, Japanese climber, who ascended Makalu in 1995 and K2 in 1996. He also travelled to the South Pole in the season 1992/1993.
1965 Vladimír Smrž, Czech climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000.
1966 Scott Franklin, American free-climber.
1966 Pierre Schmidt, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1966 Chan Kin-Kwok (Larry), Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1967 Isabelle Patissier, French lady free-climber.
1968 Javier Campos, Andalusian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006 and Cho Oyu in 2007.
1968 Bhag Chain, Indian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1969 Wang Shan-Qing, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1970 Xavier Carrard, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1970 David Ravanel, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1972 Chung Ei-Chul, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2008, Makalu in 2019, Annapurna I in 2021, Lhotse in 2022, K2 in 2023 and Kangchenjunga in 2025.
1972 Manish Kumar Deka, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013 and Cho Oyu in 2014.
1972 Siva Ram Venkata Hota, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1972 Li Yuan, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2018 and Everest in 2019.
1973 Markus Luidold, Austrian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1974 Güçlü Özen, Turkish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2019.
1975 Nanda Dulal Das, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1978 Pasang Yila, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest eight times (2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2018, 2019 and 2021).
1978 He Hong-Hu, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018 and Everest in 2019.
1979 Caspar Ravnsbæk, Danish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1979 Bastian Guggenberger, German climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2013.
1979 Kunihiko Ishii, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013.
1981 Lars Oma Erichsrud, Norwegian climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1981 Tenzin Khechok, Indian climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2012.
1983 Bidyapati Devi Ningthoutam, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1983 Unnikannan A. P. Veettil, Indian climber, who ascended Everest twice (2013 and 2016).
1983 Ane Færøvig, Norwegian lady climber, who ascended K2 in 2022.
1984 Tsering Angchok, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011.
1985 Bhushan Uday Harshe, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013, Kangchenjunga in 2019 and Annapurna I in 2021.
1986 Wangdu 3 ("Small Wangdu"), Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest three (2006, 2007 and 2009) and Cho Oyu twice (2006 and 2009).
1986 Jogmaith Namgyal, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1987 Rajan Lama Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2019.
1988 Kapil Ruhil Singh, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1989 Wangdi I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2011, 2012 and 2013).
1989 Song Hong, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1990 Rigzin Dorjai, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1992 Rahul Bairwa, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1993 Avinash Kalyan Bawane, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1997 Ang Chhiring IV (Chhiring), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2023 and 2024).
2000 Manisha Dharma Dhurve, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
2000 Sonam Tashi IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2022 and 2023) and Manaslu M in 2023.