21 November

Born on this day

1933 Vlastimil Šmída, Czech climber, who ascended Tirich Mir in 1967. He died in 2019, aged 85.
1938 Tamae Watanabe, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1991, Dhaulagiri I in 1994, Gasherbrum II in 1998, Everest twice (2002 and 2012) and Lhotse in 2004.
1946 Hans Gebhart, Austrian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2002 and Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1947 Koji Noguchi, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2002.
1948 Raymund Spang, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, where he died on descent, aged 57.
1949 Martin Lutterjohann, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992.
1955 Jeffrey Hall, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1995.
1956 Wilfried Studer, Austrian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1985 and Everest in 2010.
1957 Michael White, Canadian climber, who ascended Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu, 7711 m) in 1992.
1958 Joan Colet, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992 and Nanga Parbat in 1997, where died on descent, aged 38.
1959 Oldřich Rypl, Czech climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995.
1960 Marie-Josée Vasseur, Canadian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1961 Tryntje Young, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1965 Martin Grieder, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009 and Everest and Lhotse in 2013.
1967 Maksim Shakirov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest four times (2007, 2012, 2018 and 2019).
1970 Paul Vladimir Fejtek, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2010, where he also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits.
1970 Jessica Eliot Hepburn, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1971 Jonathan (Jono) Smith, Australian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1971 Frank Bonhomme, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2011.
1971 Wendy Kathleen Gustin, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1972 Monika Keller, Swiss lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1973 DJ Tenzing, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1977 Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy, Omani lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021, Everest in 2019, K2 in 2022 and Nanga Parbat and Gasherbrum II in 2024.
1978 Youbarj Nachhiring Rai, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1979 Guillermo Carro, Mexican climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1980 Daniel William Bull, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1980 Yogendar Garbiyal, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017, Kangchenjunga in 2018 and Annapurna I in 2021.
1982 Ran Krauss, Israeli climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1984 Li Ge, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
1985 Ross Joseph Tichy, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1985 Ankhbayar Tsogtbayar, Mongolian climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1987 Tendi (b), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2011, Broad Peak in 2014, Manaslu RP five times (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020) and Manaslu M in 2023.
1987 Sun Mi-Ling, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1989 Sebastián Ignacio Rojas, Chilean climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 2017 and Broad Peak in 2018.
1990 Mingma Chhiri V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2017, 2018 and 2022) and Lhotse in 2024.
1990 Karolina Grohová, Czech lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2021 and Gasherbrum I in 2024.
1997 Sangbu Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest twice (2018 and 2023).
1999 Eswaraiah Seelam, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.

First ascent on this day

1944 Macá (Chile, ca. 2300 m) by René Eggmann, Hermann Hess and Juan Javier Neumayer.

Gone on this day

2016 Hassan from Sadpara, Pakistani climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1999, K2 in 2004, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2006, Broad Peak in 2007 and Everest in 2011, died, aged 53.