22 July

Born on this day

1938 Hans Kirchberger, German climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1982.
1941 Berthold Hochstuhl, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1990.
1942 Peter Habeler, Austrian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 1975, Everest in 1978 (first ascent without bottled oxygen with Reinhold Messner), Nanga Parbat in 1985, Cho Oyu in 1986 and Kangchenjunga in 1988.
1945 Michael (Bronco) Lane, British climber, who ascended Everest in 1976.
1960 Gerhard Steinberg, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1961 Luboš Bečák, Czech climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996 and died on descent, aged 35.
1961 Christophe Mirmand, French climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1998 and Cho Oyu in 1999.
1962 John Waechter, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2001, where he also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits.
1962 Andreas Mayer, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1964 Lama Jangbu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1994, Everest ten times (1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005) and Cho Oyu in 1995.
1964 Chuldim Gyalzen, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000 and died later that year on Dhaulagiri I, aged 36.
1965 Mingma Dorje II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twelve times (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024), Cho Oyu five times (2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 and 2016), Lhotse in 2023 and Manaslu M in 2024.
1965 Jean-Luc Fohal, Belgian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2001, Gasherbrum I in 2004 and Manaslu RP in 2011.
1966 Lee Gin-Kun, Korean climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 2000.
1968 Louis Marino, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000.
1968 Mingma Chhiri I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seventeen times (1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2019) and Cho Oyu in 2013.
1969 Ang Pasang IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2001, 2004 and 2005).
1969 Pemba Gyalzen III (ka Pemba Geljen), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu three times (2002, 2005 and 2016), Everest eleven times (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018 and 2023), Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004, Manaslu RP five times (2006, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018) and Manaslu M in 2024.
1969 Richard Staite, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1970 Dawa Tenzing I (aka Da Tenji), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2002, 2003, 2004, 2009 and 2010), Cho Oyu twice (2004 and 2007) and Manaslu RP in 2011. He died in 2012 on Everest, aged 41.
1970 Mingmar I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013).
1972 Carlos Suarez, Spanish Madrilian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1972 John Pieter Simon Pronk, Dutch climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025 and Everest in 2026.
1974 Franz Stöckl, German climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 2004.
1980 Pemba Nuru I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2003, twice in 2004, 2005 and 2010).
1981 Ang Dawa III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2005 and Cho Oyu in 2009.
1984 Benjamin James Breckheimer, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1990 Ren Fei, Chinese climber, who ascended K2 in 2024.
1990 Mickael Dominique Michel Genais, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1991 Davood Chaghoo Saz Masjedi, Iranian climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2022.
1999 Nima Dorji (Nima Dorje), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.

First ascents on this day

1931 "Avalanche Peak" (6443 m, near Kalindi Khal) by a British party.
1935 Lixin Ri II (6869 m) by a British party.
1977 Biale Kangri (6772 m) by a Japanese party.
1985 Chorten (c. 6050 m) by an Indo-British party.
1988 Shahan Dok (6320 m) by a Japanese party.
1993 Huang Guan Shan (aka The Crown, 7295 m) by another Japanese party.
2014 P. ~6295 (India) by a German solo climber.

Gone on this day

1994 Vladimir Balyberdin, Russian climber, who ascended Everest twice (1982 - new Route - SW Pillar and 1991 without bottled oxygen), Kangchenjunga Central and about two weeks later the full traverse of the four Kangchenjunga-peaks in 1989 and K2 in 1992. He died in a car-crash, aged 45.
2011 Leila Esfandiary Kajoryrad, Iranian lady climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 2008 and Gasherbrum II in 2011, where she died on descent, aged 40.
2013 On descent from the top of Gasherbrum I three Spanish climbers disappeared. They were Galician Abel Alonso, Catalan Xevi Gómez and Castilian Álvaro Paredes.