01 April

Born on this day

1923 Sonam Gyatso, Indian Sikkemese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1958 and Everest in 1965. He died in 1968, aged 45.
1940 Shinji Sawamura, Japanese climber, who ascended Tirich Mir in 1971.
1943 Kunihiko Sato, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1946 Robert Huygh, Belgian climber, who ascended Everest in 2004. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2006 and the Carstensz-version in 2008.
1949 Motomu Ohmiya, Japanese climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1980 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1982.
1951 Heinz Rockenbauer, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997 and Everest in 1998.
1955 Graham Ratcliffe, British climber, who ascended Everest twice (1995 and 1999).
1956 Bruno Michel Dupety, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1957 Rudolf Hofer, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1957 Alfredo Rivera Macias, Mexican climber, who ascended Makalu in 2019.
1958 Nil Bohigas, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Annapurna I Central-Peak in 1984 and Everest in 1988. He died in 2016, aged 58.
1959 Hirotaka Imamura, Japanese climber, who ascended K2 in 1990, Kangchenjunga and Makalu in 1991 and Tirich Mir in 1995.
1962 Yekaterina Ivanova, Russian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1990, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1992 and Manaslu in 1993. She died in an avalanche on Kangchenjunga in 1994, aged 32.
1962 Dominika Maria Dillier-Degelo, Swiss lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2011 and Broad Peak in 2019. She also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2012.
1963 Amar Prakash, Indian climber, who ascended Kamet in 1998 and Everest twice (1999 and 2001).
1964 Sergio Ruedas, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1964 Fergus James Rupert McDonald, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1965 Xhim Begeja, Albanian climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1966 Nancy Feagin, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2001.
1967 Félix Iñurrategi, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended (accompanied by his brother Alberto) Makalu in 1991, Everest in 1992, K2 in 1994, Cho Oyu and Lhotse in 1995, Kangchenjunga and Shisha Pangma in 1996, Broad Peak in 1997, Dhaulagiri I in 1998, Nanga Parbat in 1999 and Manaslu RP and Gasherbrum II in 2000. He died on descent of the latter, aged 33.
1967 Toshio Abe, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1967 Björn Arne Evensen, Norwegian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1994 and Everest in 2007.
1968 Matija Urh, Slovenian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992 together with his father Franc.
1968 Bernd Alexander Mayr, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1969 Joaquin Castillon, Spanish Aragonese climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1994.
1969 Catalina (Lina) Quesada, Spanish Andalusian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005, Gasherbrum II in 2006, Everest in 2008, Manaslu RP in 2017 and K2 in 2022.
1969 Henry Reeves, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1970 Lee Den Hond, South African lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1971 Dorje Lama, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2002, 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2012) and Cho Oyu twice during 12 days in 2004.
1971 Nongmaithem Suraj Singh, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1971 Andrew (Andy) van der Velde, South African climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1971 Mulal Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1973 Pradeep Kumar Negi, Indian climber, who ascended Everest twice (2006 and 2012) and Dhaulagiri I in 2017.
1974 Olga Rumyantseva, Russian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022 and Lhotse in 2023.
1979 Kunzang Namgail, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1979 Gu Xiang, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2023.
1982 Mykhailo Poddubnov, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1983 Falail Singh, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1984 Toolika Rani, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1984 Pasang (i), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga twice (2018 and 2019).
1989 Khudam Bir Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1991 Ngima Tenzing, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times(2018, 2019 and 2024).
2001 Tenjin Salaka Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest in 2022 and Manaslu M in 2023.

Gone on this day

1995 Hubert Adams (Ad) Carter, long time chief editor of the American Alpine Journal, died, aged 80.