28 June

Born on this day

1949 Lluís Gómez, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1988.
1949 Toni Bericat, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1992.
1950 Rudolf de Koning, Dutch climber, who ascended Rakaposhi (7788 m) in 1986 and Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu, 7711 m) in 1987, where he died on descent, aged 37.
1950 Mauro Ferrari, Swiss climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1991.
1953 Anna Collet (née Apraxine), French lady climber of Russian origin, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak and Cho Oyu in 1998 and Everest in 2001. She died in 2001 one day before her birthday in a plane accident, aged 47.
1955 Yuji Futamata, Japanese climber, who ascended Makalu in 1991 and died on Huang Guan Shan (aka The Crown, 7295 m) in 1992, aged 37.
1955 Paul D. Burgess, Canadian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (2004 and 2007).
1957 Stefan August Locher, German climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1959 Alain Cheze, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995.
1961 Pablo Roberto Buchbinder, Argentinean climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1962 Artur Hajzer, Polish climber, who ascended Tirich Mir in 1983, Manaslu RP in 1986, Annapurna I (first winter ascent) and Shisha Pangma in 1987, Annapurna I East-Peak in 1988, Dhaulagiri I in 2008, Nanga Parbat in 2010 and Makalu in 2011. He died on Gasherbrum I in 2013, aged 51.
1964 Gopal Shreshta, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1965 Takumi Ishizaka, Japanese climber, who ascended Makalu in 1991 and died on descent, aged 26.
1965 Gernot Overbeck, German climber, who ascended Everest in 2003. He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2009.
1965 Zaharias (Haris) Kiriakakis, Greek climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007, Lhotse in 2008 and Makalu in 2010, where he died on descent, aged 44.
1966 Hiroshi Kudo, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1998 and Everest in 2000.
1966 John Walton Quillen, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1969 Patrick Alain Arnoult, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1972 Jordi Servosa, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Makalu in 2008.
1972 Phurwa, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1974 John Robert Anderson, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1977 Lhakpa Tshering VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1978 Pawel Sharma, Indian climber, who ascended Makalu in 2009 and Everest in 2012.
1981 Mingmar Dorje I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2009, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2024 and 2025) and Lhotse and Manaslu M in 2024.
1984 Ngawang Nuri, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2025) and Everest in 2025.
1985 Phura Nuru II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (2005 and 2006) and Everest four times (2006, 2009, 2012 and 2013).
1985 Javad Cheraghi, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2022.
1986 Zhu Pi-Bin, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1988 Vanessa Alessandra Folkerts, German lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009 and Everest in 2010.
1988 Ott Tinn, Estonian climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2023.
1989 Dawa Temba IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (2014 and 2021) and Everest seven times (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025), K2 twice (2021/first winter ascent/ and 2022), Annapurna I, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2023 and Manaslu M in 2025.
1989 Makak Mehta, Indian climber, who ascended Makalu in 2019 and Everest in 2025.
1989 Phurba VII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1991 Benjamin James Treble, Australian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1991 Fabian Geiger, Swiss climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2026.
1993 Pemba Tenjing, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2017 and 2018) and Kangchenjunga in 2023.
1995 Sheetal Raj, Indian lady climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2018, Everest in 2019, Annapurna I in 2021 and Cho Oyu in 2024.
1997 Ming Dorchi III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2024, 2025 and 2026) and Manaslu M twice (2024 and 2025).
2005 Jamling Bhote II, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest three times (2024, 2025 and 2026) and Manaslu M in 2025.

First ascents on this day

1977 Ghent II (7343 m) by an Austrian party led by Wolfgang Axt.
1983 Broad Peak North (7490 m) by the Italian climber Renato Casarotto solo.
2008 Kukushili (6388 m, aka Songzhi Ling) by a Swedish/Canadian/Danish party.

Gone on this day

2016 Angelo Vedani, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1985, Cho Oyu in 1995 and Manaslu RP in 2007, died, aged 64.