30 March

Born on this day

1947 Werner Sucher, Austrian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1982.
1953 Hans van der Meulen, Dutch climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1988, K2 in 1995, Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998 and Everest (without bottled oxygen) in 2002. In 1997 he also travelled to the North Pole.
1954 Graham Leslie Keene, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1956 Juan Eusebio (Juanito) Oiarzabal, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Cho Oyu four times (1985, 2002 and twice in 2003), Gasherbrum II twice (1987 and 2003), Nanga Parbat in 1992, Everest twice (1993 and 2001, the latter without bottled oxygen), K2 twice (1994 and 2004), Makalu twice (1995 and 2008), Broad Peak in 1995, Lhotse twice (1995 and 2011), Kangchenjunga twice (1996 and 2009), Gasherbrum I twice (1997 and 2003), Manaslu RP twice (1997 and 2011), Dhaulagiri I (?) and Shisha Pangma in 1998 and Annapurna I twice (1999-C1 and 2010), where he finished the 14 8000ers (LT 6).
1956 István Decsi, Hungarian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1990.
1957 Aleksei Bokov, Russian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998 and Everest in 2000.
1958 Toichiro Mitani, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1982, the South-, Central- and Main-Peaks of Kangchenjunga in 1984, Cho Oyu in 1985, Everest in 1989, Namcha Barwa in 1992, Manaslu RP in 1997 and Lhotse in 2002.
1960 Aleksei (Oleksiy) Lykov, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1961 Manoj Rasiklal Vora, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1965 Hiromichi Kamimura, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 1998.
1968 Christian Zinsli, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma in 1996 and Kangchenjunga in 2006.
1968 Guido Köstermeyer, German free-climber.
1968 Dmitri Kuznetsov, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016.
1969 Samuele Sentieri, Italian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014.
1971 Kirsty Watson, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1974 Gilles Sere Bouchet, French climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 2005 and Everest in 2006.
1975 Robert Joshua Garrison, American climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2022.
1978 Thomas John Adams, British climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2017.
1980 Marjolein de Bruycker, Belgian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004 and Everest in 2007.
1981 Bhakta Kumar Rai, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1982 Ang Kazi (a), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2013.
1983 Arian Lothaire Paul Lemal, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1988 Trine Storgaard Jahns, Danish lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
1988 Francisco Marcio Da Silva Campos, Brazilian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1994 Andrew Philip Katz, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1995 Neil Ross Hershman, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1998 Yubaraj Dhital, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
2007 Pasang Bhote VII, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024 and Everest in 2025.