18 June

Born on this day

1886 George Herbert Leigh Mallory, British pioneer, who attempted Everest in 1924 and died there, aged 37.
1924 Warren J. (Batso) Harding, American free-climber. He died in 2002, aged 77.
1947 James Stoddard (Jim) Waldron, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002 and Everest in 2007.
1948 Markus Paul Büel, Swiss climber, who ascended Everest in 2006, where he finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits. Later that year he also finished the Kosciuszko-version. He also ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2011 and Cho Oyu in 2013.
1949 Cleve McDonald, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2002. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2004.
1953 Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1993, K2 in 1994, Broad Peak Foresummit in 1995, Gasherbrum II and Annapurna I in 1996, Nanga Parbat in 1997, Everest in 1999, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak and Cho Oyu in 2000, Manaslu RP in 2001, Lhotse and Dhaulagiri I in 2002, Gasherbrum I in 2003 and Makalu in 2004, where he died on descent, aged 50.
1954 Manel Benavent, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1992.
1954 Gerhard Klaus Appel, German climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1957 Sergei Timofeev, Russian climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1997, Everest and Lhotse Shar in 1998 and Lhotse Central-Peak in 2001. He died in 2017, aged 59.
1959 Romano Sebastiani, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1960 Julie Kay Smith, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1960 Brian Ronald Dagg, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1960 Tse Kin-Yim, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1965 Jangbu V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009).
1965 Roman Zaloudek, Czech climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013.
1967 Tarke, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu five times (1998, twice in 1999, 2000 and 2004), Everest six times (2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2017), Broad Peak and Shisha Pangma in 2007, Manaslu RP five times (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014) and Lhotse in 2012.
1970 Sean Burch, American climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2001 and Everest in 2003.
1970 Georg Bernhard, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2011 and Makalu in 2016.
1972 Da Nima, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007).
1973 Markus Noichl, Austrian climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1973 Han Ji, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2013.
1974 Nima Nuru I (Nima Norbu), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007) and Cho Oyu twice (2003 and 2006). He died by a fall on K2 in 2007, aged 33.
1974 Thierry Pierre Overney, Swiss climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1975 Oskar Porras, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2009.
1975 Himal Khatri, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1976 Adrian Joseph McNally, Irish climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1977 Rana Hassan Javaid, Pakistani climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2024 and Nanga Parbat in 2025.
1980 Lhakpa Nuru IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest fifteen times (2003, 2004, three times in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023), Manaslu RP seven times (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2019) and Lhotse twice (2011 and 2013).
1980 Liu Ping, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest twice (2019 and 2020), Manaslu M in 2024 and Dhaulagiri I in 2025.
1983 Pratap Singh, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1983 Lu Xi, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1984 Tor Arne Løvoll, Norwegian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1985 Iraj Maani Golestan, Iranian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2010, Manaslu RP and Gasherbrum I in 2011, Lhotse in 2017 and Manaslu M in 2022.
1986 Steve Corroyer, French climber, who ascended Makalu in 2025.
1987 Tenjing III (Ang Tenjing), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu twice (2018 and 2022), Manaslu RP three times (2018, 2019 and 2021), Everest twice (2019 and 2021), Lhotse three times (twice in 2021 and once in 2024), Dhaulagiri I in 2021, Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum II in 2022 and Gasherbrum I, K2 and Manaslu M in 2023.
1988 Morteza Gholampour, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1988 Iftikhar Ahmed Shah, Pakistani climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2024.
1990 Anja Karen Blacha, German lady climber, who ascended Everest three times (2017, 2021 and 2025, the latter without supplementary oxygen), Broad Peak and K2 in 2019, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2023, Makalu, Kangchenjunga, Manaslu M and Cho Oyu in 2024, Annapurna I and Dhaulagiri I in 2025 and Lhotse in 2026. She also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2017 and skied 1381 km solo and unsupported from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole in 2019/2020.
1990 John Barry Good, British climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1993 Dorji (a), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2017.
1993 Jeevan Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Makalu in 2023 and Everest in 2025.
1997 Tiraj Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1999 Sandhya Bai Vadithe, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
2000 Bhanu Surya Prakash Podudolu, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.

First ascents on this day

1933 Bhagirathi Parbat III (6454 m) by a British party.
1949 Tangkongma (6224 m) by a Swiss party.
1956 Bethartoli II (6318 m) by an Indo-German party.
1975 Lobsang Kangri (6225 m) by an American party.
1979 Lupghar Sar West-Peak (appr. 7200 m) by a German party.

Gone on this day

2008 Jean-Noël Urban, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma in 2005, Gasherbrum II in 2006 and Everest in 2007, died on Gasherbrum I, aged 48.