28 May

Born on this day

1936 Lute G. Jerstad, American pioneer, who ascended Everest in 1963. He died in 1998, aged 62.
1942 Shoji Nakamura, Japanese climber, who ascended K2 in 1977 and Everest in 1988.
1945 Ekkehard Elsässer, German climber, who ascended Gurla Mandhata (aka Naimona'nyi, 7694 m) in 2004.
1949 Douglas (Doug) Hansen, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1996 and died on descent, aged 46.
1950 Kouzo Matsubayashi, Japanese climber, who ascended Gurla Mandhata (aka Naimona'nyi, 7694 m) in 1985 (first ascent!) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1990.
1950 Nga Temba II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu in 1978, Kangchenjunga in 1982, Everest five times (in 1993 twice, 1997, 2001 and 2011) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998.
1953 Charles Henry Burr, British climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2010 and Everest in 2011.
1955 Mamoru Kikuchi, Japanese climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1985 and Everest in 1996.
1956 Noriyuki Muraguchi, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest seven times (1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2012), Gasherbrum II in 1998, Lhotse in 2004 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2006.
1957 Janet Marion Kelland, lady climber from New Zealand, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1959 Franc (Aco) Pepevnik, Slovenian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995, Everest in 1997, Lhotse in 2000 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2005.
1966 Xu Li-Qin, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1967 Nicolas Brun, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma in 2005, Gasherbrum II in 2006 and Nanga Parbat in 2007.
1967 Helmut Kritzinger, Italian (South Tyrolean) climber, who ascended Everest in 2011, where he also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits.
1967 Ema De Jesus Joao Dantas, Canadian (Portuguese origin) lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1969 Vittorio Andreatta, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1969 Ang Nuru, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1969 Mingma Dorje IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2016) and Manaslu M in 2024.
1970 Ivano Bianchi, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005 and Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1971 Jan Vesták, Czech climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1971 Yukihide Tamura, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1972 André M. Zlattinger, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1979 Anna L. Shekhdar, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1979 Douglas Andrew Scarborough, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1980 Francisco De Assis Silva do Amaral Filho, Brazilian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1980 Rinji, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2023 and 2024).
1981 Da Tendi (Da Dendi), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu three times (2000, 2001 and 2009), Everest nine times (2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2025), Manaslu RP eight times (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021), Lhotse twice (2013 and 2021), Manaslu M three times (2023, 2024 and 2025) and K2 in 2024.
1981 Kevin Trieu, American climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2012.
1983 Boris Manevich, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1984 Udaya Gartaula, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1987 Chheten Dorje, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest eight times (2008, in 2012 twice, 2013, 2018, in 2021 twice and 2022), Kangchenjunga in 2019, Lhotse in 2021, Nuptse three times (2023, 2024 and 2025) and Cho Oyu in 2024.
1987 Aleksandar Milosavljević, Serbian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1989 Da Kusang, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2010, 2011 and 2012).
1989 Chhetar (Sonam), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021 and Everest in 2022.
1990 Pasang Nurbu I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP seven times (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021), Makalu three times (2016, 2018 and 2024), Cho Oyu twice (2016 and 2023), Everest five times (2019, 2021, 2022 and twice in 2023), Dhaulagiri I twice (2021 and 2023), Manaslu M five times (2021, 2022, twice in 2023 and 2024), Annapurna I four times (2022, in 2023 twice and 2024), Lhotse twice (2022 and 2023), Gasherbrum II twice (2022 and 2023), Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak in 2023, K2 twice (2023 and 2025) and Kangchenjunga and Shisha Pangma in 2024, where he finished the 14 8K Main-Peaks.
1990 Krystopher Nashat Benyamein, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1994 Pasang Dawa IX, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2021 and 2022), Lhotse twice (2017 and 2023), Manaslu RP four times (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020) and Makalu in 2025.
1996 Mohan Singh Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1997 Jacob Benjamin Weintraub, American climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2025.
1998 Nagaraju Sundarana, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.

First ascents on this day

1954 Chago (6893 m) by a party from New Zealand led by Edmund Hillary.
1963 Ghenge Liru (6596 m) by a British party.

Gone on this day

2000 George Irving Bell, American pioneer, who participated in the first ascent of Masherbrum (7821 m) in 1960, died, aged 73.
2006 Susan Erica (Sue) Fear, Australian lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2002, Everest in 2003, Gasherbrum II in 2004 and Manaslu RP on this day, where she died by a fall on descent, aged 43.
2010 Zaharias (Haris) Kiriakakis, Greek climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007, Lhotse in 2008 and Makalu in 2010 three days before, died on descent, aged 44.
2016 Pavel Michut, Czech climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, died on Denali, aged 44.