12 March

Born on this day

1954 Masaharu Sakakibara, Japanese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1990.
1955 Errobert (Pipas) Larrandaburu, French Basque climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995, Gasherbrum II in 1998 and Everest in 2002.
1956 Sachi Matsumoto, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1988.
1958 José Carlos Tamayo, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1990, K2 in 1994, Gasherbrum II in 1996, Nanga Parbat in 1999, Shisha Pangma in 2005, Gasherbrum IV NE-Peak in 2008 and Broad Peak in 2010.
1958 Bogdan Biščak, Slovenian climber, who ascended Broad Peak and Gasherbrum II in 1986.
1958 Norio Nakanishi, Japanese climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1983 and Cho Oyu in 1985.
1959 Josef Hochmeister, Austrian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1960 Takahiro Katayama, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 1990.
1960 Damian Ryan, Irish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1963 Fang Quan, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1965 David (Dave) Hill, Canadian (also UK) climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1966 Waldemar Niclevicz, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest twice (1995 and 2005), Shisha Pangma and Cho Oyu in 1998, Gasherbrum II in 1999, K2 in 2000, Lhotse in 2002 and Makalu in 2008. He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 1997 and the Kosciuszko-version in 2006.
1966 Heinz Joachim Kohn, German climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1969 Gerhard Osterbauer, Austrian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1997, Gasherbrum II in 2000 and Everest in 2022.
1969 Yu Kwang-Yeul, Korean climber, who participated in the first winter ascent of Ngozumpa Kang I (7916 m) in 1988.
1969 Maximilian Berger, Austrian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2019.
1970 Shin Seung-Kwon, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1971 Christopher (Chris) Booher, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1972 Lisa Irene Thompson, American lady climber, who ascended K2 in 2018.
1973 Vladimir Frolov, Kazakh climber, who ascended Everest in 1997.
1977 Hiroyuki Okouchi, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1982 Phurba Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1984 Pasang XX, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1985 Pasang VII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2009, 2018 and 2022) and Annapurna I in 2016.
1986 Anoop Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1992 Dorjee Khandu, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1992 Tamut Taka, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1992 Muhammad Ali VI, Pakistani climber, who ascended K2 in 2021.
1993 Rosemary Elizabeth Saal, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1994 Venkata Surya Prakash Korikala, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1995 Bibas, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2019 and 2023), Lhotse in 2021, K2 in 2023 and Makalu in 2024.
1996 Nuru Jangbu I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1996 Chhiring (c), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
2000 Shubharaj Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
2001 Rajdip Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest and Manaslu M in 2025.

Gone on this day

1989 John Baptist Lucius Noel, British pioneer, photographer and filmmaker, who participated in the Everest expeditions in 1922 and 1924, died, aged 99.