14 May

Born on this day

1949 Hansjörg Müller, Swiss climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1980 and Manaslu in 1981.
1953 Marc Bruchez, Swiss climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1983.
1956 Grania Willis, Irish lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004 and Everest in 2005.
1958 Robert Gambi, Australian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003 and Everest in 2004. He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits later in 2004 and the Kosciuszko-version in 2005. All climbs he did together with his British wife, who shares the birthday with him.
1959 Morris Kittleman, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1962 Hiroshi Ohnishi, Japanese adventurer, who arrived at the North Pole after 55 days exactly on his 27th birthday in 1989. Later that year he ascended Everest and in 1990 he climbed Makalu. He died in an avalanche on Namcha Barwa (7782 m) in 1991, aged 29.
1962 Yoshiyuki Tachibana, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1963 Claudio Rosset, Italian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999, Dhaulagiri I in 2001 and Everest in 2005.
1966 Catherine Dupasquier, Canadian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1968 Tomasz Feliks Koehler, Polish climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2022 and Cho Oyu in 2024.
1969 Joanne Gambi, British lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003 and Everest in 2004. She also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits later in 2004 and the Kosciuszko-version in 2005. All climbs she did together with her Australian husband, who shares the birthday with her.
1969 Andre Marcello Borges De Freitas, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1969 Igor Zlobin, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1971 Masataka Tamura, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1975 Anatoli Menski, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014 and Everest in 2018.
1976 Andreas Redlberger, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1978 Miroslav Hrad, Czech climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1979 Maximiliano Meza, Chilean climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2006.
1980 Dechen Lhamo (2), Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1980 Dawa Tenzing IV (aka Dawa Tenji), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2007, 2011 and 2013) and Kangchenjunga in 2022.
1980 Yangjee, Nepalese Sherpani, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013.
1980 Myra Beaudoin Bertrand, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1981 Lhakpa Tharke, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2004, 2006 and 2007) and Cho Oyu in 2006.
1981 Dean Harold Michael Hall, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1982 Karina Ragazzo Oliani, Brazilian lady climber, who ascended Everest twice (2013 and 2017) and K2 in 2019.
1983 Vladimir Rozhko, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Himalchuli in 2007, Makalu in 2010 and Manaslu RP twice (2017 and 2021).
1984 Tshering Namgyal (aka Ang Namgyal), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2006, twice in 2007, 2008, 2009 and twice in 2010) and Cho Oyu in 2006.
1984 Tusi Das, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2013 and Kangchenjunga in 2014.
1985 Lakpa Temba II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended K2 three times (2014, 2018 and 2019), Annapurna I five times (2016, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026), Manaslu RP in 2017, Everest twice (2018 and 2023), Kangchenjunga in 2019, Dhaulagiri I WRFS in 2019, Dhaulagiri I twice (2021 and 2025), Makalu in 2022, Manaslu M twice (2022 and 2023), Nanga Parbat three times (2022, 2023 and 2025), Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak in 2023 and Lhotse, Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma in 2024.
1987 Elmehdi Amezzane, Moroccan climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1988 Steffen Bixby Merte, German climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1990 Saud Khalid Al-Eidi, Saudi-Arabian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1992 Sohail Sakhi, Pakistani climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2021, Gasherbrum I in 2022, K2 twice (2022 and 2025) and Nanga Parbat in 2025.
1996 Rohtash Khilari, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.

First ascents on this day

1952 Palung Ri (7022 m) by a British party.
1955 Ramthang Karpo Ri (6865 m) by a Franco-Swiss party.
1962 Lha Shamma (6412 m) by a British ladies expedition led by Countess Dorothy Gravina.
1973 Yalung Kang (8505 m, subsidiary peak of Kangchenjunga) by a Japanese party.
1981 Phola Gangchhen (aka Molamenqing, 7703 m) by a party from New Zealand led by Austin Brooks.

Gone on this day

2001 Erich Resch, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995, disappeared on Makalu, aged 39.
2003 Paul Bernard Carr, Australian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1994, died on Cho Oyu, aged 42.
2006 Sri Krishan, Indian climber, who ascended Everest on this day and died on descent, aged 27.
2018 Lama Babu II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2009 and 2012), Cho Oyu in 2009 and Manaslu RP in 2014, died, aged 48.