29 May

Born on this day

1928 Michael J. (Mike) Cheney, British adventurer and journalist, who stayed in Nepal for more than 30 years. He organized mountaineering and trekking adventures and informed worldwide about mountaineering in Nepal. He cooperated with Liz Hawley. He died in 1988, aged 59.
1937 Eduard Myslovsky, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 1982.
1941 Douglas Keith (Doug) Scott, British climber, who ascended Everest in 1975 (new route), Kangchenjunga (new route) and Nuptse (new route) in 1979, Shisha Pangma (new route) in 1982 and Broad Peak in 1983. Among many other difficult climbs he participated in the first ascents of Changabang (6864 m) in 1974 and Baintha Brakk ("Ogre", 7285 m) in 1977. He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 1995. He died in 2020, aged 79.
1942 Lutz Protze, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1994.
1957 Maria Mlynarczyk, German lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1958 Ang Jangbu I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 1979.
1961 Gennadi Kirievski, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2002, Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu, 7711 m) in 2004, Cho Oyu in 2006 and K2 in 2007.
1962 Xavier González, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1999.
1963 Ukyo Katayama, Japanese ex-Formula 1 motor racer, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2003 and Manaslu RP in 2006.
1963 Karsang, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1964 Adrian Cole, British climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2000.
1964 Grant Maughan, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1967 Ignacio (Iñaki) Ochoa de Olza, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995, Gasherbrum I and II in 1996, Lhotse in 1999, Everest in 2001, Cho Oyu twice (2001 and 2004), Nanga Parbat and Broad Peak in 2003, Makalu and K2 in 2004, Manaslu RP and Shisha Pangma in 2006 and Dhaulagiri I in 2007. He died in 2008 on Annapurna I, aged 40.
1967 Thimo Sommerfeld, German climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1967 Timothy Miles H. (Tim) Calder, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004 and Everest in 2006.
1967 Christopher (Chris) Groves, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1969 Janusz Adam Adamski, Polish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004, Everest twice (2006 and 2017) and Gasherbrum II in 2019.
1969 Pimba Nurpu Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1970 Jörg Ehrlich, German climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1995.
1971 Kazi (Kaji), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest nine times (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018 and 2019), Manaslu RP twice (2014 and 2017) and Annapurna I in 2015.
1971 Ján Čarnogurský, Slovak climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1971 Chie Takeshita, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2016 and Manaslu M in 2024.
1972 Atsushi Otani, Japanese climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1997.
1972 Meltem Colak Ozmine, Turkish lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1973 Kohei Kamioka, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1997.
1975 Michael Adrian Wessels, Dutch climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1975 Nan Chun-Hong, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019 and Everest in 2022.
1979 Ang Temba III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017 and Everest and K2 in 2023.
1981 Nurbu Bhote Lama, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest six times (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013).
1981 Pär Mikael Linden, Swedish climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1982 Bishow Raj Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1983 Nurbu Chhiring II (Nurbu Tshering), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019 and Lhotse in 2022.
1983 Michel Lionel Delessert, Swiss climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2022.
1983 Thomas Louis Smith, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1984 Dorchi V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1984 Rune Hana, Norwegian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
1986 Mohamed Isa Abdulla Yusuf Al Qais, Bahrainian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2020 and Everest in 2021.
1986 Justas Narkevicius, Lithuanian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1987 Basanta Kumar Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2021 and Manaslu M in 2024.
1987 Lenka Erlebachová, Czech lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2024.
1989 Nima IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1989 Taylor P. Adams, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1994 George William Atkinson, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2011, where he also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits.
1995 Pemba Nuru VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2017, 2018 and 2021).
1995 Saijan Ghale, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021, Everest three times (2022, 2024 and 2025), K2 in 2024 and Manaslu M in 2025.
2006 Pasang Tashi, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.

First ascents on this day

1939 Kirat Chuli (aka Tent Peak, 7362 m) by a Swiss-German party.
1953 Everest (Chomolungma, Sagarmatha, 8848 m) by Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and the Indo-Tibetan climber Tenzing Norgay. The British team was led by John Hunt.
1957 Broad Peak Foresummit (8035 m) by an Austrian party. This is the so-called Rocky Summit. They had to descent on that day, but eleven days later the same team climbed the mountain again and this time they succeeded in climbing the Main-Peak.
1963 Numbur (6958 m) by a Japanese party.

Gone on this day

1979 Ko Sang-Don, Korean climber, who was the first of his country to ascend any 8000er: Everest in 1977. He died on Denali (McKinley), aged 30.
2010 Peter Ressmann, Austrian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2006, died in the Austrian Alps, aged 44.