26 January

Born on this day

1941 Masako Uchida, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 1974.
1943 Kazuyuki Takahashi, Japanese climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1983 and Cho Oyu in 1987.
1943 E. Dawes Eddy III, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1955 Catherine (Cathy) Gibson, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1990.
1957 Seiichi Kodama, Japanese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1991.
1958 Aleksandr Foigt, Russian climber, who ascended Makalu in 1996, Lhotse twice (1997 and 2000), Lhotse Shar in 1998 and Everest in 2001. He died in an avalanche on K2 in 2006, aged 48.
1962 Taeko Todo, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996. She died in the Japanese Alps in 2000, aged 38.
1963 Yasushi Tanahashi, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1990 and Nanga Parbat in 1998.
1965 Neal Jing, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1966 Beralides García, Spanish Andalusian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1967 José Antonio Tarí, Spanish Valencian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1968 Moon Bong-Su, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999.
1973 Douglas (Doug) Waymark, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2009, where he also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits.
1973 José Antonio Fernández, Spanish Valencian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009 and Everest in 2011.
1973 Lars Sandelius, Swedish climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1974 Napier Sandford Fuller, American climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1976 Jiang Hua, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1977 Louis Rousseau, Canadian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2007, Nanga Parbat in 2009 and Gasherbrum II in 2011.
1978 Jang Min, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2004 and died on descent, aged 26.
1979 Sophie Denis, French lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2008 and Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Broad Peak and Manaslu RP in 2011.
1979 Tawa Chhiri, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2011 and 2016) and Makalu five times (2014, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024).
1981 Domènech (Domi) Trastoy, Andorran climber, who ascended Everest in 2013, Cho Oyu in 2018, Manaslu RP in 2019, Lhotse in 2022, Annapurna I in 2024 and Kangchenjunga in 2025.
1981 Adam Robert Sylvester, American climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1983 Maalem Ziade, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1984 Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui, Kenyan climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1992 Akshay Shrikant Patke, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1994 Sulaxchana Tamang, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1994 Cameron Hamilton Kenny, American climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2022.
1999 Phurba Nurbu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2024 and 2025).
2001 Gyanendra Dangi, Nepalese climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 2023.
2003 Mingma Renje, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.

Gone on this day

2000 Luboš Pavlík, Czech climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1997, died in a car accident, aged 41.
2018 Elizabeth (Liz) Hawley, American journalist, who lived in Nepal for more than fifty years and is best known for her Nepalese mountaineering chronicles, died, aged 94.
2018 Tomasz ("Czapkins") Mackiewicz, Polish climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in winter 2018 and went missing on descent. He probably died on this day, aged 43.