03 April

Born on this day

1947 Eiho Ohtani, Japanese climber, who ascended Rakaposhi in 1979, K2 in 1981 and Cho Oyu in 1987.
1953 Karina Salova, Bulgarian lady climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999.
1957 Sergei Isaev, Russian climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 1991.
1957 Mauro Rossi, Italian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1989 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1990.
1961 Shinsuke Ezuka, Japanese climber, who ascended Broad Peak, Cho Oyu and Everest in 1993 and Gasherbrum I and II in 1997.
1963 Jan Harris, American climber, who ascended Everest and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1993.
1963 Hassan from Sadpara, Pakistani climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1999, K2 in 2004, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2006, Broad Peak in 2007 and Everest in 2011. He died in 2016, aged 53.
1964 Zaurbek Mizambekov, Kazakh climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1991.
1964 Rao Jian-Feng, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004, Everest in 2006, Dhaulagiri I and Manaslu RP in 2010, Kangchenjunga in 2011 and Annapurna I (disputed), Makalu, Lhotse and K2 in 2012. He was murdered by terrorists in BC of Nanga Parbat in 2013, aged 49.
1967 William (Will) Cross, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2006, Lhotse in 2008, Cho Oyu in 2009 and Manaslu RP in 2011.
1967 Christian Rossel, Swiss climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1967 Robert Anderson Sullivan Jr., American climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1967 Robert Mariusz Jedynak, Polish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1970 Ryan Steven Dahlem, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008 and Everest in 2010. Later in 2010 he also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits.
1973 Steven Douglas Graham, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1973 Helen Coker Berenyi, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1974 Gregory (Greg) Maud, South African climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1977 Tame (Man) Bagang, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1983 Radu Cornel Albu, Romanian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1985 Michael John Read, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1985 Axel Loison, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1989 Rasmus Kullerich Kragh, Danish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016 and Everest in 2019.
1994 Imtiaz Ali, Pakistani climber, who ascended K2 three times (2018, 2023 and 2024), Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2022 and Nanga Parbat in 2023.