25 October

Born on this day

1939 Andreas ("Anderl") Mannhardt, German pioneer, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1962.
1943 Heinz Raisch, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1949 Laurie Skreslet, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 1982.
1959 Mark Payne, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1961 Andrei Filkov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1961 Mahamood Tavassoule, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1962 Gilberto Leandro Thoen, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1964 Jiří Kalousek, Czech climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1964 Greg J. Barber, Canadian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016 and Everest in 2017.
1965 Timothy (Tim) Mosedale, British climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2005, 2011, twice in 2013, 2016. 2017 and 2021), Cho Oyu in 2006 and Lhotse twice (2021 and 2022).
1966 Oleg Savchenko, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1967 Xu Li, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1968 Michael Cook, Australian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999.
1968 Daniel Khouri, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1969 Lakpa Tshiri, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1972 Julian Marcus Evans, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1974 Michael Koblmüller, Austrian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1996 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998. The son of Edi Koblmüller died in an avalanche on Diran (aka Minapin, 7266 m) in 1999, aged 24.
1976 Taro Yamagata, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2017 and Manaslu RP in 2018.
1976 Kyoko Iwata, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017, Everest and Lhotse in 2019, Annapurna I in 2023, Makalu in 2024 and Dhaulagiri I in 2026.
1977 Kazuaki Yamada, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2026.
1978 Andrey Pekurov, Belarusian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1979 Vlaislav Safyanovskiy, American climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024 and Everest in 2026.
1982 Sun Tao, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1984 Jagvinder Pal Singh Raina, Indian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2017.
1984 Lhakpa Bhote II, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest eleven times (2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026), K2 twice (2018 and 2022) and Manaslu M in 2025.
1986 Lyudmila (Mila) Mikhanovskaya, Russian lady climber, who ascended Everest and Manaslu RP in 2012.
1987 Chen Chen, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1987 Christopher Robert Boote, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1988 Dawa Chhiring I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2012, Everest three times (2016, 2021 and 2022) and Manaslu RP four times (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020).
1988 Delia Wookey (b. Zanoshi), Romanian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2021. She also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2022 together with her twin sister Iulia.
1988 Iulia Jaso (b. Zanoshi), Romanian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2021. She also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2022 together with her twin sister Delia.
1988 Thibaut Alain Mathieu Wadowski, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1989 Mazin Victor Moussalem, American climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025 and Makalu and Everest in 2026.
1991 Sylwia Bajek, Polish lady climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2018.
1992 Prakash Kemchay Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018, Everest four times (2019, 2023, 2025 and 2026) and Manaslu M four times (2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025).
1993 Janak Ram Rai, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
1996 Temba, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse in 2025.
1999 Duan Hao-Ming, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2026.

First ascents on this day

1959 Shalbachum (6707 m) by a Japanese party.
1964 Manaslu North (6994 m) by a Dutch party.
1970 Dhaulagiri VI Central-Peak (aka "Gama Peak", 7187 m) by a Japanese party.
1971 Tsho Karpo Kang (6556 m) by another Japanese party.
1974 Swargarohini (aka Surgnalin) Central-Peak (6247 m) by an Indo-British party.

Gone on this day

1985 Rafał Chołda, Polish climber, who ascended Tirich Mir in 1983, died by a fall on Lhotse, aged 28.