30 October

Born on this day

1935 Toshihiko Ogiwara, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1947 Wolfgang Brög, German climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 1980.
1949 Cathleen Richards, American lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1991.
1951 Vladimir Yanochkin, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 1993, Cho Oyu in 1995, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999 and Lhotse Central-Peak in 2001 (first ascent).
1954 Volker Tiller, German climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1999.
1955 Lyudmila Savina, Kazakh lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1997.
1960 Liu Fu-Yong, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1962 Kevin Goldstein, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1963 John Burns, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1964 Mark Leach, American free-climber.
1971 Luis Basarrate, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2001.
1972 Georg Mösl, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1973 Cedric Carnal, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1977 Robert Szymczak, Polish climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2008, Nanga Parbat in 2010 and Everest in 2012.
1977 Ruben Payan, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1978 Rakesh Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2024.
1979 Mahdi Amidi Ahang, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2009, Everest and Lhotse in 2011 and Dhaulagiri I in 2012. He died in 2012 on Mont Blanc, aged 32.
1979 Manal Adel Youssef Rostom, Egyptian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1981 Densa Bhote, Nepalese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (2006 and 2014), Everest four times (2007, 2011, 2013 and 2023), Manaslu RP in 2018 and Kangchenjunga in 2019.
1982 Phura Nuru I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1984 Dawa Phurten Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest four times (2016, 2018, 2023 and 2024).
1985 Shi Wei-Jing, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2022 and Everest in 2023.
1986 Aleksei Aksenov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1987 Montana Twinprai, lady climber from Thailand, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019 and Everest in 2023.
1989 Krushnaa Madhav Patil, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1996 Tenjing Gyalzen II (Tenging Gyaljen), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2013, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and twice in 2024), Manaslu RP twice (2014 and 2021), Lhotse three times (2021, 2022 and 2024), K2 in 2022, Manaslu M in 2023 and Cho Oyu in 2024.
2017 Friedrich Wolfgang (Fred) Beckey, American free-climber, died, aged 96.

First ascents on this day

1954 Chomo Lönzo (7804 m) by a French party.
1972 Phabrang South-Peak (6140 m) by a Japanese party.
1973 Serku Dholma (6227 m) by another Japanese party.
1992 Namcha Barwa (7782 m) by a Sino-Japanese party.

Gone on this day

1980 Gerardo Plaza, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1979, died, aged 27.
2023 Franci Savenc, Slovenian mountain chronicler, one of the pioneers of Himalayan adventure statistics, died, aged 88.