11 March

Born on this day

1936 Audrey Salkeld, British lady climber, mountaineering book author and historian.
1939 Johann Penz, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1940 Jürgen Winkler, German mountain photographer, who published several fine books with photos of the Himalayas.
1946 Peter von Gizycki, German climber, who participated in the first ascent of Dhaulagiri III in 1973.
1949 Josef Wangeler, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1985, Cho Oyu in 1987 and Gasherbrum II in 1995.
1949 Maikiko Hisasue, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1954 Larry Hall, American climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1993, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1994 and Cho Oyu in 1996.
1955 Jan van den Bos, Dutch climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1959 Barry Rugo, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1991.
1963 Katja Staartjes, Dutch lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998, Everest in 1999 and Gasherbrum I in 2004.
1964 Tomohiro Takano, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014.
1964 Tanya Katrine Rollier, Swiss lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1966 Claudio Bastrentaz, Italian climber, who ascended Everest twice (2004 and 2005).
1967 Christos Barouchas, Greek climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2001 and Cho Oyu in 2003, where he died on descent, aged 36.
1969 Takashi Kawanabe, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 1996.
1971 Richard Davis, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1973 Paweł Bartosz Michalski, Polish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, Gasherbrum I in 2007, Gasherbrum II in 2008, Broad Peak in 2012 and Manaslu RP in 2019.
1977 Jonathan William Garrood, Australian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2017.
1978 Atanas Georgiev Skatov, Bulgarian climber, who ascended Everest twice (2014 and 2017), Manaslu RP in 2015, Annapurna I and Makalu in 2016, Lhotse in 2017, Cho Oyu in 2018 and Kangchenjunga, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II and Dhaulagiri I in 2019. He died by a fall on K2 during a winter attempt in 2021, aged 42.
1980 Pasang Lhamu III, Nepalese Sherpani, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1981 Ahmad Fakhri Abu Samah, Malaysian climber, who ascended Everest in 2007. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2011.
1982 Sidney McCord Pattison, American climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2017 and Everest four times (2018, 2021, 2024 and 2025).
1982 Jeffery Andrew Leech, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1982 James Mungai Muhia, Kenyan climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1983 Ulysse Lefebvre, French climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 2023.
1984 Dawa Steven, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, Everest three times (2007, 2008 and 2019), Lhotse in 2008 and Kangchenjunga and Manaslu in 2018.
1986 Xie Yuan-Lin, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1990 Tanka Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1993 William Axel Walter Lundin, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
2001 Milan, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025).
2002 Sheroze Kashif, Pakistani climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2019, Everest and K2 in 2021, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2022, Annapurna I, Dhaulagiri I, Manaslu M and Cho Oyu in 2023 and Shisha Pangma in 2024, where he finished the 14 8K Main-Peaks.

Gone on this day

1990 Mathias (Hias) Rebitsch, Austrian pioneer, who climbed to about 7350 m on Nanga Parbat in 1938 and led the early expedition to Batura Sar (7794 m) in 1954, which resulted in the first ascent of Sarbzea Sar (6784 m). Among many other achievements he also went to the Peruvian Andes in 1952 and four times to the Puna de Atacama in the Argentinean-Chilean border area with several first or rare ascents, but also with very interesting archaeological results. He died on this day, aged 78.