07 August

Born on this day

1949 Herbert Schütter, Austrian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1996 and Nanga Parbat in 2009.
1951 Dominique Caillat, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1993.
1953 Maurice Beauséjour, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1953 George Dunn, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1991.
1956 Dwayne Congdon, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 1986.
1958 Francisco Pérez, Spanish Andalusian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1990.
1960 Robert Gálfy, Slovak climber, who ascended Kumbhakarna (Jannu) in 1981 and Gasherbrum I in 1988.
1961 Arthur Marsden, South African climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1961 Mario Cantin, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1962 Alain Robert, French free-climber.
1962 Michael Breuer, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1993.
1962 Stefano Epiney, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1965 Guido Riemenschneider, Belgian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2013.
1967 Tomasz Przydrozny, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1967 Georgie Stanley, American lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999.
1969 Palden Giaccho Negi, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2001, Lhotse in 2003 and Cho Oyu in 2006.
1970 Yuichi Yoshida, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1993, K2 in 1996 and Lhotse and Everest in 2003.
1970 Wang Cheong-Sik, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1970 John Zeckendorf, Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017
1971 Ang Chhiring III (aka Ang Tseri), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1971 Jo-Anne Katherine Harvey, Australian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1973 Robert Daniel Alt, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1974 Kim Yong-Jae, Korean climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1999.
1975 Nisar Hussain, Pakistani climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II four times (1999, 2003, 2006 and 2011), Broad Peak in 2000, Gasherbrum I three times (2003, 2006 and 2007), K2 in 2004 and Nanga Parbat in 2008. He died during a winter attempt of Gasherbrum I in 2012, aged 36.
1977 Ko Young-Joon, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1978 Wang Wei-Guang, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1980 Melanie Jane Windridge, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1980 Peter James Newland, British climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1982 Huang Huan, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2025.
1985 Tsering Dantar, Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1987 Sun Xu-Dong, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1989 Hemant Gupta, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1989 Phu Dorchi III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2018, 2019 and 2022).
1990 Jan Polášek, Czech climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2015.

First ascents on this day

1957 Buni Zom (6542 m) by a party from New Zealand.
1963 Kohe Baba Tangi (6513 m) by an Italian party.
1971 Kohe Belandtarin (6286 m) by another Italian party.
1975 Purian Sar (ca. 6240 m) by a Japanese party.
1976 Apsarasas Kangri II (earlier "I", 7241 m, earlier 7245 m) by another Japanese party. Apsarasas Kangri I (earlier "III", 7243 m, earlier 7236 m) is still unclimbed.
1981 Kuksay Tagh (aka Muztagh Ata II, 7184 m) by a Japanese party as well.
1990 Pin Parbat (6350 m) by an Indian party.
1994 Pasu Sar I (aka Pasu Dome, 7478 m) by a German party.

Gone on this day

1986 Julie Tullis, British lady climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1984 and K2 in 1986, where she died on descent, aged 47.
2009 Andrzej Marciniak, Polish climber, who ascended Everest in 1989 and Annapurna I in 1996, died on Posrednia Gran in the High Tatras, aged 50.