08 November

Born on this day

1945 Kazuo Yamamoto, Japanese climber, who participated in the first ascent of Namcha Barwa (7782 m) in 1992.
1948 Dmitri Bochkov, Russian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1995 and Everest in 2001.
1949 Ang Yong-Jong, North Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992. He is still the only North Korean climber, who ascended any 8000er.
1952 Masatatsu Otake, Japanese climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 1988.
1952 Eberhard Jurgalski, German mountaineering chronicler and mountain researcher.
1953 Wolfgang Fietz, German free-climber.
1958 Ian Edward (Ted) Atkins, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2004, Makalu in 2008, Kangchenjunga in 2011 and Lhotse in 2012. He died in 2018, aged 59.
1959 Thomas Sjögren, Swedish adventurer, who ascended Everest in 1999, skied to the South Pole in the season 2001/2002 and to the North Pole just four months later, all together with his wife Tina. They are the first couple, who did the so-called "Three Poles".
1959 Randi Skaug, Norwegian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2004. She also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2007.
1961 Aleksei Paskhin, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996 and Lhotse in 2002.
1963 Masaki Hayashi, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 1996.
1966 Nikolai Sinjushin, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1966 Hernan David Leal Barrientos, Chilean climber, who ascended Everest twice (2017 and 2018), Lhotse in 2018, Kangchenjunga in 2019 and Makalu in 2023.
1967 Samuel Urech, Swiss climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2009 and Everest in 2012.
1968 Edward Leas, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1971 Haraldur Örn Ólafsson, adventurer from Iceland, who skied to the South Pole in the season 1997/1998, to the North Pole in 2000 and climbed Everest in 2002, where he also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits.
1972 Su Wei-Jie, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1973 Vadim Pihotski, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2000.
1973 Katrina Louise Follows (nee Sandling), British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2006, Cho Oyu in 2013 and Lhotse in 2023. She also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2006.
1973 Marco Tossutti, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002, Gasherbrum II in 2003, Everest in 2004 and Broad Peak in 2007.
1975 Tsang Yin-Hung (Ada), Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest three times (2017, 2019 and 2021).
1975 Andrea Rigotti, Australian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016 and Everest in 2017.
1976 Reinhard Koblmüller, Austrian climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 1999.
1978 Xie Wei, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2018.
1979 Gu Zheng-Chao, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1981 Catalin Mastan, Romanian lady climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2022.
1981 Liu Hong-Jun, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
1982 Wangchen Sonam (Wangqing Sonam), Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest three times (2004, 2006 and 2016) and Cho Oyu three times (2004, 2006 and 2007).
1982 Andries Etienne, Belgian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1983 Alice Cavallera, Italian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1983 Wang Long, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
1984 Daniel Richard Washington Horne, British climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017 and Everest in 2018.
1985 Dwight Ewing Crow, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1985 Ahmed Uzair, Pakistani climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1986 Maria Hanna Blomgren Granberg, Swedish lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1987 Anna Korpushenkova, Russian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2022.
1990 Rahul Jarngal, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017 and Kangchenjunga in 2018.
1990 Rojita Buddhacharya, Nepalese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1991 Nanami Otsuki, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014.
1994 Dabuti, Nepalese Sherpani, who ascended Everest in 2018 and Annapurna I in 2021.
1997 Luckme Tamang, Nepalese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
2000 Nima Ungdi, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2021, 2022, 2023 and twice in 2024), Lhotse twice (2023 and 2024) and K2 and Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2024).

First ascent on this day

1957 Cerro Balmaceda (Patagonia, 2035 m) by a party with members from Argentina and Chile.