22 March

Born on this day

1921 Adolf (Dölf) Reist, Swiss pioneer, who ascended Everest in 1956. He died in 2000, aged 79.
1936 Felix Kuen, Austrian climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1970. He died in 1974, aged 37.
1949 Daniel (Dan) Aguilar, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1995.
1952 Hermann Tauber, South Tyrolean climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1983 and Cho Oyu in 1991.
1953 Mikhail Turkevich, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Everest in 1982 and Kangchenjunga in 1989. He died in 2003, aged 50.
1955 Rosemarie (Romy) Haller, Austrian lady climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998.
1956 Takuya Fujiwara, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1997.
1959 Vincenc (Cene, Vinko) Berčič, Slovenian climber, who ascended Tirich Mir East-Peak in 1978 and Cho Oyu in 2006.
1961 Iria Projaev, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 1995.
1963 Daniel Meggitt, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1965 Stefan Glowacz, German free-climber.
1966 François Pallandre, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1967 Ali Hajjar Zarrin, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1969 Alexander Stangl, Austrian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1971 Debasish Biswas, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2010, Kangchenjunga in 2011, Annapurna I in 2012 (disputed!), Makalu in 2014, Manaslu RP in 2015 and Lhotse in 2017.
1975 Zhu Qian, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1976 Angus David Bruce Jones, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1984 Hari Om, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1990 Arjit Dey, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1991 Aasif Jaan, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018 and Manaslu M in 2023.

Gone on this day

1966 John Elvis Harlin II, American climber, who died on the Eiger North Face by rope accident, aged 30.
1992 Keijiro Hayasaka, Japanese climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1991, died, aged 44.
1998 Toni Comerma, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1997, died, aged 27.
2005 Vladimir Zakharov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 1992, died, aged 51.