27 December

Born on this day

1956 Johan de Bruyn, Belgian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2002.
1959 Joachim Eckhoff, Austrian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1960 Matthew (Matt) Dickinson, British climber, who ascended Everest in 1996.
1960 Kang Duk-Moon, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1961 Witold Szylderowicz, Polish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2003.
1964 Carsten Bennike, Danish climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1966 Thomas Seidensticker, German climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014 and Gasherbrum I in 2015.
1968 Park Joo-Hoon, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2003. He died later that year in an avalanche on Lhotse Shar, aged 34.
1969 Su Li-Hsun, Taiwanese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1973 Pasang Tshering III (Ang Pasang), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2000, 2005 and 2016), Shisha Pangma Central-Peak twice (2000 and 2002) and Lhotse, K2 and Cho Oyu in 2001.
1976 Piotr Morawski, Polish climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 2005 (first calendar winter ascent), Cho Oyu, Annapurna I East-Peak and Broad Peak in 2006, Nanga Parbat in 2007 and Gasherbrum I and II in 2008. He died in 2009 on Dhaulagiri I, aged 32.
1976 Rafał Szczepanik, Polish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1977 Jonathan Charles Bosco, American climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2022.
1978 Hari Prasad Guragain, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1979 Knut Heggland, Norwegian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1979 Kah Shin Leow, Singaporean climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2018 and K2 in 2025.
1984 Alan Mallory, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1986 Aakash Bavariya, Indian climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2018.
1990 Song Yu-Xin, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1993 Dendi VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.

First ascent on this day

1957 Paine (ca. 2750 m) by an Italian party.