20 November

Born on this day

1925 Serge Coupé, French pioneer, who ascended Makalu in 1955. He died in 2020, aged 94.
1944 Bernard Huc-Dumas, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1953 Charles (Chuck) Boyd, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1953 Robert (Bob) Killip, Australian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999 and Everest in 2006.
1954 Borut (Čita) Bergant, Slovenian climber, who ascended Yalung Kang in 1985 and died on descent, aged 30.
1954 Koji Yamazaki, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 1996.
1958 Fernando Garrido, Spanish Aragonese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu three times (1988, 2002 and 2013) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1996.
1960 Michaël Jean Pierre Jules Beigbeder, French climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013.
1961 Gheorghe Dijmarescu, Romanian born American climber, who ascended Everest nine times (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007). He died in 2020, aged 58.
1961 Zdeněk Šlachta, Czech climber, who attempted Shisha Pangma in 1994, where he died by serac fall, aged 32.
1964 Kim Hong-Bin, Korean climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II and Shisha Pangma in 2006, Everest in 2007, Makalu in 2008, Dhaulagiri I in 2009, Cho Oyu in 2011, K2 in 2012, Kangchenjunga in 2013, Manaslu RP in 2014, Lhotse and Nanga Parbat in 2017, Annapurna I in 2018, Gasherbrum I in 2019 and Broad Peak in 2021, where he died on descent, aged 56. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2009.
1964 Jean-Marce Porte, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2001.
1965 Andrei Manuylov, Russian climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2010 and Kangchenjunga in 2014.
1965 Kevin Mark Walsh, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1967 Andrei Fedorov, climber from Uzbekistan, who ascended Everest in 1998.
1967 Wangchu III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2013).
1967 Adrienne Marina Christine Boerwinkel, Dutch lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1968 Hector Garcia, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1968 Davide Chiesa, Italian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011 and Everest in 2017.
1969 Darren Vincent Rogers, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014, Everest in 2016 and K2 in 2024.
1970 Josep Noguera, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1999, Gasherbrum II in 2001 and Dhaulagiri I in 2007.
1971 Eric Platenberg, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009 and Everest in 2011.
1971 Thomas Bolt, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2013.
1974 Guillermo (Willy) Barbier, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2004.
1974 Santiago Quintero, Ecuadorian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2007, Makalu in 2008, Cho Oyu and Gasherbrum II in 2011, Shisha Pangma and Everest in 2013, Manaslu RP in 2015 and Dhaulagiri I in 2017.
1974 Bruno Carvalho, Portuguese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 2006. He died on descent, aged 31.
1978 Guo Wen-Jing, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1980 Jay Prakash Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1985 Pasang Nuru VIII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1987 Ngawang Chhongba, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2016 and 2018).
1987 Sacheen Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2024.
1989 Ebrahim Ali Salem Jaber, Bahraini climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1992 Tshering Lama, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1993 Ngawang Tenjing (Nawang Tenzing), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest ten times (2011, twice in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024) and Manaslu RP seven times (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019).
1993 Bir Bahadur Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (2019 and 2021), Everest three times (2017, 2022 and 2024), Lhotse twice (2023 and 2024) and Manaslu M in 2024.
1995 Mingmar VII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (2018, 2019, 2021, in 2022 twice and 2023), Lhotse and Manaslu M in 2022 and Makalu, Kangchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak, K2 and Cho Oyu in 2023. He died in an avalanche on Shisha Pangma in 2023, aged 27.
1996 Tashi Changba, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2019 and 2021), Manaslu RP twice (2017 and 2018), Kangchenjunga in 2022 and Manaslu M twice (2022 and 2023).
1996 Alyssa Nicole Azar, Australian lady climber, who ascended Everest twice (2016 and 2018).
2001 Ngima Dorchi III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2021 and 2022).
2001 Conor James Coleman, Australian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
2005 Dhenjung Bhote II, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.

First ascent on this day

1939 Cerro Crucesniyoj (Bolivia, 5505 m) by A. Prieto, J. Mariaca, R. Flores, N. Cobos, B. de Biedma and F. Aguilar.

Gone on this day

2009 Lino Lacedelli, Italian pioneer, who, with his companion Achille Compagnoni, achieved the first ascent of K2 in 1954, died, aged 83.