11 December

Born on this day

1942 Fabrizio Innamorati, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 1973.
1951 Riichi Nishizutsumi, Japanese climber, who ascended Masherbrum and Broad Peak in 1985.
1954 Pjotr Henschke, Polish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1988 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999.
1955 Zapryan Horozov, Bulgarian climber, who ascended Makalu in 1998.
1955 Noboyuki Takeda, Japanese climber, who ascended Himalchuli in 1985.
1956 Johann Murg, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1957 Koichi Nagata, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 1998.
1959 George Mallory, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 1995.
1960 Alexander (Alex) van Steen, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995.
1961 Dmitri Sobolev, Kazakh climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1995 and Everest in 1997. He died together with his companion Anatoli Bukreev in an avalanche on Annapurna I South face in winter 1997, aged 36.
1964 Park Bok-Kyun, Korean climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2008.
1966 Göran Kropp, Swedish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992, K2 in 1993, Broad Peak in 1994, Everest twice (1996 and 1999) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1997. He died during climbing near Seattle in 2002, aged 35.
1966 Petr Skřivánek, Czech climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995. He died in 2010, aged 43.
1969 Stephan Mahlknecht, Italian (South Tyrolean) climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1969 Mark Moseley Synnott, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1971 Johnathan Dennis Anderton, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1971 Liao Shui-Lian, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1972 Edward James Buckingham, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005 and Everest in 2011.
1972 Robert Anno Meijer, Dutch climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1974 Ha Jong-Kook, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1974 Nataliia Vladykina, Ukrainian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1975 Luca Vuerich, Italian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak in 2003, Lhotse in 2004 and Manaslu RP in 2008. He died in 2010 after being hit by an avalanche in the Slovenian Alps, aged 34.
1975 Agnieszka Kiela-Pałys, Polish lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1976 Siavash Shahbazzadeh, Iranian climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2022.
1977 Praveen Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2008, Everest in 2018 and Manaslu M in 2023.
1977 Brenden Thomas Madden, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1977 Eduard Udo Alexander Wagner, Austrian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2017 and Everest in 2018.
1978 Sébastien Audy, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1980 Julien Andre Maurice Laurent, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1981 Marta Anna Horiaczek, Polish lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1982 Samir Nicholas Patham, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1988 Robin de Thiersant, French climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2011.
1989 Daphne de Jong, Dutch lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1989 Vivek Thakur, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1990 Dorchi Wangdak Bhote, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (2018 and 2021), Everest twice (2021 and 2022) and Manaslu M in 2024.
1990 Sharmila Syangtan Lama Tamang, Nepalese lady climber, who ascended Everest and Manaslu RP in 2019 and Annapurna I and Lhotse in 2021.
1990 Pasang XXIII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
2001 Nicolas Alejandro Horta Ramos, Chilean climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.

Gone on this day

1983 Stanisław Jaworski, Polish climber, who died on Manaslu, aged 37.